This just came up on twitter (big up Urban Nerds), having been a big fan of Chew Fu and Wiley for ages I thought it would be worth posting.
Chew Fu used to light up the week with his remixes and bootlegs that he kindly gave away for nothing pretty much every week via Palms Out Sounds’ greatly missed Remix Sunday series. Some of his tunes still get awesome reactions when I drop them in a set, even the downright ridiculous ones like the Doobie Bros remix. His Eurythmics remix gets even the most dormant crowd singing their lungs out.
I don’t think this tune lives up to the sum of it’s parts. Still, it’s nice to see two artists I admire, from completely different scenes, collaborating. What next? Def Leppard and Joker? R Kelly vs Glassjaw? (Yes I really do love all those artists)
[via friedmylittlebrain]
UPDATE – it seems this tune is a grower, I’m liking it a lot more today than I did yesterday.
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dont like it because its a rip off mash up of his old
Frank Sinatra , New York New York remix
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he just tries to go mainstream by putting some monotonous rap vocals on it ..
take that? take your ish and stay out of clubs please..
I think he deserves a bit of mainstream money. He’s worked pretty hard to get a name for himself, putting out so many free remixes, and it’s unlikely he could have made any money off most of them because the samples would be a nightmare to clear. I also think it’s good that he hasn’t had to drastically change the style of his music in order to reach the mainstream. Personally, I don’t like the Sinatra samples in the original, and I think the vocals in this one give it the sing along element that most dance songs (unfortunately) need to break the mainstream.