Adelaïde: flashdance frenchypops in dub
Jan. 22nd, 2008 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusA musical confection for you today; here's a dubby remix I've just made of a duet Kumisolo and I recorded for a forthcoming Tsunami Addiction compilation.
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Kumi's version (bits of which you can hear in my remix) is more poppy and beaty. The scratch video is an extension of the screengrab motion experiments I made with my Thatness and Thereness video. The jittery "flashdance" scratch effect is a result of glitches / imperfections in the YouTube timeline scrollbar in stop mode (whereas the Thatness video used stopframe rollerball quirks in Quicktime).
The song is a cover of Arnold Turboust & Zabou's 1986 hit "Adelaïde", and the original video is rather wonderful, featuring unrequited lust in a libertine stagecoach:
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Arnold Turboust wrote "Adelaïde" with Benjamin Minimum. It was his only hit as a solo artist (it galloped through the French Top 50 for several weeks in 1986), but he later found more success writing and arranging hits for Etienne Daho. Zabou (Zabou Breitman) is an actress.
And here, for those who prefer their music without warped and pirated amateur Hong Kong YouTube dance videos attached, is an mp3 of the dub:
Adelaïde (Stereo mp3 file, 4MB, 4mins 21secs)
The debut album from Kumisolo will be released later this year on Active Suspension. It contains another Momus / Kumi collaboration in the form of a song called "Confiance Absolue" (with music by Kumi Okamoto and French lyrics by Momus). Meanwhile, Kumi continues as one third of The Konki Duet.
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Kumi's version (bits of which you can hear in my remix) is more poppy and beaty. The scratch video is an extension of the screengrab motion experiments I made with my Thatness and Thereness video. The jittery "flashdance" scratch effect is a result of glitches / imperfections in the YouTube timeline scrollbar in stop mode (whereas the Thatness video used stopframe rollerball quirks in Quicktime).
The song is a cover of Arnold Turboust & Zabou's 1986 hit "Adelaïde", and the original video is rather wonderful, featuring unrequited lust in a libertine stagecoach:
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Arnold Turboust wrote "Adelaïde" with Benjamin Minimum. It was his only hit as a solo artist (it galloped through the French Top 50 for several weeks in 1986), but he later found more success writing and arranging hits for Etienne Daho. Zabou (Zabou Breitman) is an actress.
And here, for those who prefer their music without warped and pirated amateur Hong Kong YouTube dance videos attached, is an mp3 of the dub:
Adelaïde (Stereo mp3 file, 4MB, 4mins 21secs)
The debut album from Kumisolo will be released later this year on Active Suspension. It contains another Momus / Kumi collaboration in the form of a song called "Confiance Absolue" (with music by Kumi Okamoto and French lyrics by Momus). Meanwhile, Kumi continues as one third of The Konki Duet.
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Date: 2008-01-22 08:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-22 08:32 am (UTC)Also, I've always wondered why I never see you play any instruments (besides the video of you playing Lolitapop Dollhouse with Kahimi Karie live). It just seems kind of odd.
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Date: 2008-01-22 08:42 am (UTC)As for why I don't play instruments in public -- I suppose I'm more in the tradition of Marcel Marceau (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qx8_C1hMko) than Slash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEwIRZ9pLCM). Which means that when you see me live I'm much more likely to be miming playing a violin than really playing one.
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Date: 2008-01-22 08:53 am (UTC)Hmm, interesting. Or maybe your abilities to play musical instruments is just an illusion and you employ 6 year old slave laborers to do all the work? Have I caught on to your schemes, Momus?
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Date: 2008-01-22 09:00 am (UTC)I'M ON TO YOU =_=
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Date: 2008-01-22 09:19 am (UTC)6 year old sample algorhythms, more like. There's a sweatshop in my sampler.
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Date: 2008-01-22 09:22 am (UTC)I don't think we can be friends anymore. This news has shocked me to the core and I don't think I will ever forgive you. Just think of the algorithms!
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Date: 2008-01-22 11:38 am (UTC)video creeps. Thanks to you
Date: 2008-01-22 03:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-22 09:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-22 09:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-01-22 11:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-22 11:48 am (UTC)What do you particularly want to hear?
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Date: 2008-01-22 12:04 pm (UTC)alright?
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Date: 2008-01-22 12:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-22 12:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-22 01:04 pm (UTC)Pop singer murdered by mob of mentally disturbed teenagers. Cruelly assaulted with LOL captions. Head torn off and pasted on different body. Onlookers stunned.
etc. etc.
der.
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Date: 2008-01-22 01:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-22 08:45 pm (UTC)down with music!!!!
Date: 2008-01-22 12:09 pm (UTC)Re: down with music!!!!
Date: 2008-01-22 01:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-22 12:52 pm (UTC)http://current.com/items/88806126_here_s_looking_at_you
der.
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Date: 2008-01-22 03:06 pm (UTC)jittery "flashdance" scratch effect
Date: 2008-01-22 04:21 pm (UTC)purification.
Your flashdance in a bedsheet has a contrariness that is Tsunami. I would have put that ditty to a vid like "Frilly Military". The feelings blend.
Thatness and Thereness expose an Aquarian tendency for transient states.
So I'm not sure and maybe I don't need to be.