Okay, well, that was a joke.  Just watched Lady Gaga get robbed of a Grammy by the sweet, innocent, and shamefully off-key Taylor Swift.  In an effort to rescue myself from the inevitable crippling depression that will soon follow, I’m sorting through recently acquired music.

If you’ve followed my music blog(s) for any length of time, you’re no doubt familiar with my love of anything related to Imogen Heap’s track, Hide & Seek.  Well, here’s another one I swiped from Chicago’s always-on-point Dani Deahl.  Once upon a time, this track used to be Hide & Seek.  Then, the Tape Deck Bros chopped it, cut it, sliced it, reordered it, rebuilt it, and threw a house beat on it.  Without the title, I wouldn’t have recognized it until it got to the breakdown.  They did it well, made it into a real house track with a filtered vocal sample, buildups, the whole deal.

Tape Deck Bros – Hide And Seek (Fuk Tha OC Remix).mp3

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I also found another really sweet remix of Fireflies by Owl City.  I know, a lot of folks think this is way too cheese to get any love.  And honestly I can’t really argue that because the reason I dig the track is that it’s kind of me and my girl’s song.  But whatever, this edit is dubsteppy and melodic and gorgeous and sounds exactly like something I would create if I were a producer.

Owl City – Fireflies (Marlow Remix).mp3

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All you Bjork fans out there, I’m guessing you’ll want to stick your fingers in your ears.   Fortunately for me, I have no real feelings one way or another about Bjork, and that allowed me not to have any preconceived notions about what a Bjork drum and bass remix ought to sound like, or whether such a thing should even exist at all.  So when I heard this a couple days ago on DI.FM, I immediately stopped what I was doing and tracked that sucka down.  Dig:

Bjork – All Is Full Of Love (Chris.Su Remix).mp3

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And while we’re on the subject of Drum and Bass remixes, here’s one I heard a couple nights ago while I was listening to Annie Mac dropping the latest dance music on BBC 1.  This is a Tiesto remix by my favorite Drum and Bass remixer, High Contrast.  It’s both melodic and grimy, moving and dirty, and it gets my ass moving.  Track is called Kaleidoscope.

Tiesto feat Jonsi – Kaleidoscope (High Contrast Remix).mp3

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