SummersRadio™ New Music + Free Download! Sound Remedy - 'I5' L.A.'s Sound Remedy has just released his first new recording of 2012! The song is called 'I5' (I believe it refers to the Interstate 5 highway which runs along the west coast from just south of here in Vancouver - in Washington state - all the way to Mexico) and it's from his forthcoming new album called 'Haunted Valor' - AND as a bonus he's made the song available as a free download!
'If Your Are Ever Feeling Down Just Close Your Eyes And Drift Away.... I Promise I Have The Remedy'. If 'I5' is to your liking you can download a copy for free from Sound Remedy's Soundcloud page here: http://soundcloud.com/soundremedy/sound-remedy-i5 (or simply click the download arrow below)
SummersRadio™ And Now For Something Completely Different! Little Roy - 'Lithium'/ 'Son Of a Gun' Jamaica's Earl Lowe - better known as Little Roy - released his latest album called 'Battle For Seattle' in September on the Ark Recordings label. 'Battle For Seattle' features ten songs - all Nirvana covers!
Naturally some songs work better in a reggae style than others - I've chosen a couple that I think translate well. First up is 'Lithium'. Hey have you ever thought you knew the lyrics to a song - like for years - but you find out later that a word you thought was one thing was actually a different word meaning something else? Since the first time I heard 'Lithum' - and everytime since - I thought Kurt was saying 'I'm not gonna cry'! Then when I listened to Little Roy's version I thought he sure does say cry funny - but it's crack! Kurt was singing about crack - err... cracking anyway - not crying. I like it - crack sounds edgier. It's funny to think that the irony was lost on me all this time. True story.
I actually find it quite peaceful when the 'yeah/ yay' part starts - as you expect abrasiveness but instead you get smooth laidback vibes - a pleasant surprise... Enjoy!
'Son Of A Gun' is not technically a Nirvana song - as they covered it from the Vaselines debut EP which was released in 1987 - and then included it on the their 'Incesticide' compilation in 1992. So this is a cover of a cover of a cover - but it's perfectly suited to be a reggae song. The lyrics totally work as dancehall - and it's about sunshine even! This is Little Roy's ultra chilled version of 'Son Of A Gun'... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Remix + New Music + Free Downloads! Nirvana - 'All Apologies' (Sound Remedy Remix)/ Sound Remedy - 'Life' I suppose it's because I've heard some rather turrible Nirvana remixes in the past, that I wasn't expecting much when I checked out this new remix of 'All Apologies' - but I must say that I'm rather amazed at how good this Sound Remedy remix is!
Like SBTRKT featured yesterday, Sound Remedy embraces a number of musical genres - and strangely also seems to have a fondness for masks! Now choosing to remix an artist like Nirvana is quite a lofty task, but L.A's Sound Remedy certainly delivers here - and if this remix is to your liking you can download it for free on Soundcloud courtesy of Sound Remedy himself here: http://soundcloud.com/soundremedy/nirvana-all-apologies-sound (or click the download arrow below)
The original song is pretty much intact here - but with the addition of lots of spacey keyboard sounds - and a number of tempo changes - the amazing part is how it all flows together so seamlessly - to put it simply, it works! This is the new 'Sound Remedy Remix' of Nirvana's 'All Apologies'... Enjoy!
Nirvana's 'All Apologies' is actually just the first of three 'Remix Potions' that Sound Remedy released online on Friday - he's also remixed tracks from Frank Ocean ('Remix Potion #2') and Wolfgang Gartner ('Remix Potion #3') - the latter being a mashup that features samples from Daft Punk and Steve Jobs! You can find out more about these on his Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/soundremedy?
And in addition to that he's also just released a new EP of original songs called 'Potions' today! 'Potions' features five tracks which can also be downloaded for free from his official website here: http://www.soundremedy.com/
On his Facebook page Sound Remedy has his description listed as 'no genre. Just, Sound Remedy' - I like it when artists are that open minded and refuse to be pigeon-holed. 'Life' is one of his new original songs on the 'Potions' EP and not surprisingly it embraces a number of styles - house, techno, funk, dubstep - and a dash of disco. Once again what makes this song so good is Sound Remedy's ability to stitch everything together so smoothly to create a quality tune that ultimately transcends it's many varied sounds... Enjoy!
