Since my car was condemned to the scrapyard I've been driving a different car to work. Ok, alright, I've been driving my mother in law's car to work. It has a CD player so I've switched from my in-car mp3 player and the world of shuffle to grabbing some cds from the pile next to the stereo waiting to be filed and working my way through albums instead. One of them is Jamie Xx's remixed version of Gil Scott Heron's I'm New Here, released back in 2011 as We're New Here. Jamie kept the vocals and reworked the music entirely, sampling some of Gil's older vocals too. The closing song, I'll Take Care Of U, an old Brook Benton song, is one of the best and the one that most successfully takes Gil's vocals somewhere else (London pirate radio).
I'll Take Care Of You
I love this, bought the box set vinyl, the instrumental album is pointless, without Heron's vocal it's alright background music, some people posher than me would say dinner party music. There was a good DJ mix of this track on the b-side of the 12" full of Jamie xx identifiers https://app.box.com/s/4bofkj6o2bmw0x402xrvmdfnkg43o0vq
ReplyDeleteDon't know that one. Will check it out tomorrow. Thanks Drew. Just got back from a freebie watching Peter Hook and the Light doing both substance albums at the Apollo.
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I'm not quite sure if like the stuff from Jaamie xx and so I avoided this remix LP. This is interesting....but not enough to make me a convert. But appreciate getting chance to sample it...
ReplyDeleteThe Drake/Rihanna rework of this is one of my favourite singles of this decade. I'm rather fond of Drake though. Not quite sure why, his stuff just clicks with me. Somethings do, somethings don't, you know how it goes.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to relisten to that Simon. Sure I've heard it but can't place it right now.
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