White Lies + Crystal Castles = Death

White Lies + Crystal Castles

I don’t like White Lies. I’m not a fan of Crystal Castles. But I blinkin’ love the music video for the song below, and the song – ‘Death’ – itself! Can you imagine?
The remixed video has an incredible sense of drama and mystery, and together with the Crystal Castles’ remix of White Lies’ song it creates a perfect audiovisual combination.
The original music video was directed by Andreas Nilsson and I guess he is responsible for the remixed version as well.

You can download the remix here.

Oh, and I’ve seen both bands at the Open’er Festival. But I’m gonna write a separate post about the festival.

Remixed: Fred Falke

Fred Falke

Today, I introduce a new category of posts on my blog. In Remixed: … I will present amazing work of my favourite remixers.

The first one that I’m going to present is Fred Falke. Actually, I discovered him not so long ago, but I’m impressed with his work on ‘New in Town’ by Little Boots and ‘Anthonio’ by Annie. Both of them are shown further in this post.

The remixes I like the most are the ones changing the vibe/character of the song or expose elements that aren’t present in the foreground in the original version. It happened several times to me that I hadn’t liked the original of the song until I heard the remix and discovered this special something that made me change my mind.

In this case, I liked both ‘Anthonio’ and ‘New in Town’ very much from the very beginning. However, as I have already mentioned before, I am impressed how Fred Falke has changed them.

Dull flame of desire

Björk in 'Dull Flame of Desire' music video

To be honest, I wasn’t aware that Björk released a fifth single from Volta until last week. In my opinion, ‘Dull Flame of Desire’ featuring Antony Hegarty is one the most beautiful love songs ever made: intimate lyrics, breath-taking performances from both singers and raw, pulsing rhythm. To see a bigger picture you should listen to the 7:30 album version, but today I want to tell you about the music video and a great remix made for the song.

Nothing is what it seems

Can you remember Madonna’s ‘American Life’ music video? I mean, the not-edited one. I saw it on TV on the day of its premiere – lucky me, it was the only day it was aired on TV. Of course you can find it on youtube…

A month ago a high-quality version of this music video directed by Jonas Åkerlund leaked to the Internet. But the thing is that it is… the director’s cut! It is about 40 seconds longer than the original version and contains lots of alternative shots. Believe me, it is SOMETHING. To be honest, I think it is one of the greatest music videos ever made.

Stars Galore

Imagine Madonna, Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Pharrell and Timbaland in one song…

And now, listen to it!

…and I’ll be your movie star!

This song definitely made my day right from the early morning! The double A-side maxi single (Movie star / Slave to love) is on its way – it will be released on 13/10. Róisín has also announced that she is planning to make a new music video for ‘Movie star’, which is good news to all those who were disappointed with the version she released some time ago (was it June? July?). To be honest, I was more than disappointed – I get the point that she wanted to make a really weird video with all those drag queens and lobster rape, but it lacked good taste that she is known for.

There are six remixes on upcoming CDM (maxi single), I particularly like these made by Junior Sanchez. His ‘lax mix’ doesn’t sound like a remix really, it’s rather more like soft electro pop version of the song. The other one is quite expanded and harder electro. I’ll post links as soon as remixes appear on Róisín’s remixed myspace or last.fm.

And for now, for those who haven’t seen it yet, here’s the original music video for ‘Movie star’.

Oh, I forgot to write anything about ‘Slave to love’ that makes the single DOUBLE single. Maybe because it’s nothing special, I mean – it isn’t bad, just… nothing special. You can listen to the song here.