SummersRadio™ New Remix vs Classic Remix! Chemical Brothers!

SummersRadio™ New Remix vs Classic Remix! Prok & Fitch vs Juan Kidd - 'Star Guitar' (Festival Mix)/ Chemical Brothers - 'Star Guitar' (Pete Heller's Expanded Mix) Our last episode of New Remix vs Classic Remix was back in May with the Scott Grooves (featuring Parliament) classic track 'Mothership Reconnection' which you can revisit here: http://summersradio.blogspot.com/2011/05/summersradio-new-remix-vs-classic-remix.html

I chose to compare the two remixes because I didn't feel that the new remix quite stood up to the original remix - such is the case again today with 'Star Guitar' - and once again I shall post both versions so that you can decide for yourself! In both cases it's also an excellent excuse to post a club classic :)

'Star Guitar' was the second single released from the Chemical Brothers fourth album 'Come With Us' in 2002. The single and 12" featured the original (as it came out before the album itself - the album version is a bit shorter) as well as remixes from Pete Heller. Just this week a new remix has been released by Prok & Fitch vs Juan Kidd called the 'Festival Mix' on Toolroom Records - which strangely doesn't mention the Chemical Brothers on the artwork at all. So is it a cover version then, or a remix - or was it done at the bands request because it's rather pointless? Who knows!

In the case of Scott Grooves I clearly preferred the original Daft Punk remix to the newer one by Claude VonStroke - although I could at least see why they did a new remix of it - as it was part of Soma's 20th Anniversary reissues celebration - but in this case I have one question... WHY?

So in this corner we have the new 'Festival Mix' of 'Star Guitar' by Prok & Fitch vs Juan Kidd - Enjoy...



And in this corner we have the classic remix from Pete Heller - the 'Pete Heller Expanded Remix'... Enjoy!



So which one do you prefer? Of course not all new remixes are better than the originals - or the original remixes - but in most cases they have some new sounds or something interesting to offer. The vocals in the new version sound rather flat and the only new interesting bit in the 'Festival Mix' is the semi-siren sound that begins aroound 3:30 - is that a sufficient reason to remix (or cover) a classic?

SummersRadio™ says no.

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SummersRadio™ Classic! Company B!

SummersRadio™ Classic! Company B - 'Fascinated' The new Prok & Fitch track 'Yalla' that I posted yesterday samples this song (just for a few seconds at 2:25, then for the entire breakdown at 3:33) - so I thought it a good opportunity to post this original! Company B were a Latin freestyle dance trio that formed in 1986. 'Fascinated' was their first single - first released on an indie label called The Summer in 1986. It became a hit in the Miami area, and then when released by Atlantic in 1987 it became a number one U.S. club smash! Enjoy...

SummersRadio™ New Music! Prok & Fitch + Guy Williams!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Prok & Fitch with Guy Williams - 'Yalla' (Original Mix) 'Yalla' from U.K. duo Ben Prok & James Fitch - in a collaboration with Guy Williams - is another fine track featured on Roger Sanchez's latest EP called 'Roger Sanchez Presents Battle Weapons Volume 3'. The song features a keyboard sample from Company B's 1987 club hit 'Fascinated'... Enjoy!