An edit for your hangover
So we’ve been heavy on the edits lately here, and I wanted to contribute one of a slightly different fashion. In his Red Bull Music Academy interview Prins Thomas mentioned that he likes edits with a little bit of dirt to them. An organic feeling where the goal is not necessarily to seamlessly reconstruct the song, but have some fun and play around with different cuts of the track. I couldn’t agree more, and it’s not just because I have a huge boner for PT. Sorry PT if you’re reading this (fingers crossed).
Anyways, edits and remixes from the late 70s by the likes of Larry Levan, Ron Hardy, Danny Krivit, etc. had some real character, probably because they were doing it all on tape. But this track reminds me of that. It’s chopped in ways that leave you searching for where that drop is coming in, which is great because one problem with newer edits is their tendency to become entirely predictable. I’m clearly overgeneralizing seeing as we post a ton of edits here and I love each and every one of them. But change is good! And sometimes it takes a look back to 1984 to jog us out of our focus on making things feel untouched. This track is Fredrik Ramel’s (another musically talented Swede? go figure) remix/edit of the 1975 original.
So without further ado, here is, from what I hear, a 39 Hotel classic that might as well be about that last whiskey coke I had last night.
*Thanks to Future Times for turning me onto this with their Lifeguardians mix.
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