A couple of edits/ remixes of past songs for those of you who are fans of them- I know some people consider some songs to be untouchable and to even attempt an edit or remix is sacrilege. This may be one such case but I love it, a dubbed out, tampered with version of God Only Knows by The Beach Boys from fifteen years ago that resurfaced recently when Brian Wilson made his final voyage...
God Only Knows (Michael Cook Re- Touch)
Much more recent is this Hardway Bros remix of Soul Train by 80s band Swans Way. Sean Johnston often does long and thumpy and this remix is both- eight minutes forty seconds long and filled with acid house drums, sirens and synths, acidic squiggles and the chant of 'it's alright' looped over and over.
The remix can be purchased here. Sean talks of discovering Swans Way via a performance on Friday night fixture The Tube in 1984 and how they fitted in with he was into at the time- Dexys, The Bunnymen, Prefab Sprout, all of whom had as Sean says 'a sense of outsider glamour'. That live performance on The Tube is a time capsule, a small corner of the 80s captured on film...
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