Shake the Disease (Tiga remix) - Depeche Mode
Music // Steve // 14th January 2006
Tiga, the electroclash survivor that apparently spent all of 1996 mourning the death of Tupac Shakir, seems to be everywhere right now, remixing everything in sight. Check his remix of LCD's Tribulations for especially guilty hands-in-the-air disco fun.
Now he's had a go at Depeche Mode's rather mardy 1985 single "Shake the Disease" for release on the upcoming 80s remix compilation "Future Retro " and it's a steely, minimal electro affair, well away from the limp and moany original. It's what it should have been in the first place.
Depeche have been having a good time of remixes at the moment, with the Thin White Duke and Bitstream mixes of "A Pain That I'm Used To".
Also on the compilation is a version of Yazoo's "Situation" (apparently in itself a house classic in it's Francois Kevorkian remix from 1982) by Richard X, which I was all excited about in my pathetic way, but it's bollocks, I'm afraid.
And especially for Jim, who has a soft spot for La Moz, a remix of "Suedehead" by Sparks. Good God. I've not heard this yet, I'd be intrigued...
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Speaking of which there is a web site where you can send questions in to Mr Morrissey and he appears to answer them, check it out at True to you.
Example soundbite “As stunningly beautiful as Los Angeles is, it is also essentially a police state...”
Jim : 15/01/2006 01:40:37
There is a stream of the whole future retro thing
here
. Morrissey thing starts at about 1:12 - intriguing and actually quite good.Jim : 27/01/2006 00:49:22