Friendses

Part 1. A remix of a remix. Part 2. Live!

Part 1:

Never Be Alone - Simian

We Are Your Friends (Original ...

We Are Your Friends (Lee Cabre...

Part 2:

We Are Your Friends (Reprise) ...

Super Black Markets

Yesterday the Onion AV Club posted this article about indispensible B-side collections. Not surprisingly, lots of covers, versions, mixes, etc. turn up on these kinds of comps. [SftD covered some of the Nirvana covers from Incesticide last month.]

Here are two tracks from one of the AV Club picks—the Clash's Super Black Market Clash: one cover and one dub remix.

Pressure Drop - Toots & The Ma...

Pressure Drop - The Clash

Bankrobber (Album Version) - T...

Robber Dub - The Clash

Eluardians

A favorite "remix" from last year that didn't fit in either the top samples or covers list. Jon Brion seems to have kept the vocal track and re-recorded everything else. A beautiful simplification—he's even simplified the song's title to something more obvious.

An Eluardian Instance - Of Mon...

First Time High (Of Chicago Ac...

Exoduses

I often think of covers, remixes, etc. as translations, but almost never see the word used this way. That said, Bill Laswell called his 1997 Bob Marley remix album, Dreams of Freedom: Ambient Translations of Bob Marley in Dub. Here is Marley's "Exodus" and Laswell's even more entrancing dub take.

Exodus - Bob Marley

Exodus - Bob Marley