[Photos: Andrea Cheng]
Swedish crooner Jens Lekman made a new great mix for the days of summer. In his words: “I got the opportunity to remix my favourite song from Au Revoir Simone’s beautiful album ‘Still Night, Still Light’ . While listening to the song I realised how nice it’d be to transform their straight 4/4 time synthpop into a whirlwind waltz or maybe a barcarole if you will. It took a long time to chop up all the syllables and the tiny tiny samples, but I think the result got the song into a whole swirling new direction. While making the remix, my mind started working in 3/4 and 6/8 time. I started looking around for tracks in that time signature to make a mix, I wasn’t intending to but I couldn’t help it. It was all a big swirl. After a while I heard it everywhere. In soul ballads, in polyrhythmical african pop, in old movies. In the ocean waves tumbling in against the shore, in the beat of a lovers heart. One two three, one two three…”
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Jens Lekman: ‘Summer in 3/4 Time’ Mix
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[tracklist on reactions]
TAGS: Jens Lekman, Mixtape, Mp3
01 Au Revoir Simone – Shadows (Jens Lekman’s remix)
02 Barbara Mason – Oh How It Hurts
03 Thomas Mapfumo – Madiro
04 The Morning Benders – Excuses
05 Dialogue from Gregory’s Girl (1981)
06 Chad & Jeremy – Everyone’s Gone To The Moon
07 Music and dialogue from Day Of The Locust (1975)
08 Eggstone – Birds In Cages
09 Pete Drake – Forever
10 Armando Mantovani – Around the World
11 Dialogue from Puberty Blues (1981)
12 Jane Morgan & the Troubadours – Fascination
13 Armando Trovajoli – L’Amore Dice Ciao
14 Sharon O’Neill – Puberty Blues
15 Like A Sleepy Blue Ocean (remix of John Denver’s “Annie’s Song”)
jane morgan
around the world l’amore dice Ciao
(One two three, one two three…)
Amazing Mix !!!!
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