This popped up the other day, while I was scrolling/ searching for something else, a download only Andrew Weatherall remix from 2011. Weatherall employs that glam stomp he was fond of round that time (see also his remix of C.A.R. and Trentemoller among others), some distorted sci fi sounds beamed in from left and right and a wordless vocal part taken from the original track, all rhythmic and gutteral oohs and ah ah ahs.
The source material is Cliché by French outfit The Shoes with Cock 'n' Bull Kid along for the ride on this outing (Cock 'n' Bull Kid is/was Anita Blay who had two albums out 2010 and 2011 but according to Discogs nothing since). The Shoes are/ were Benjamin Labeau and Guillaume Briere (coincidentally that's the second Guillaume at this blog in two days, it's almost a Guillaume theme week). The Shoes seem to have called it a day in 2015. This remix is pretty infectious, a bit of an earworm, and fits nicely with the glam/ rockabilly sound he was playing at the end of the decade which mutated into ALFOS and The Asphodells.
Cliché (Andrew Weatherall remix)
I've never heard the original of Shoes until just now despite owning the Weatherall remix for over a decade. The glam stomp is there, Weatherall looped it and pushed it further up front, and the vocal parts belong to Cock 'n' Bull Kid but pitched shifted downwards for the remix. A good piece of turn of the 00s dance pop.
2 comments:
Great post, Adam. The Andrew Weatherall remix is well worn (or whatever the digital equivalent is) round this way but, like you, the first time I've heard the original by The Shoes.
I have quite a few songs by/featuring Cock 'n' Bull Kid (aka Thecocknbullkid). Anita Blay's been busy since 2014 with Antony & Cleopatra with Alexander Burnett, turning out some real bangers like this one
https://youtu.be/4OfSDbfbMF0
Not heard that before, very nice indeed
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