jacques lu cont: can do no wrong....defend/refute

But, other than that, remarkably consistent.

At this stage - yep, JLC can do no wrong. And if Zoot Woman can stop sounding too much like the Buggles then he'll be unassailable.

Jacques is a hard working professional.

Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For

The remix of this is a total change in tone from the original. Where Gwen's version was boppy, loud and a bit obnoxious, this mix gives the song a sort of sad, 80's nostalgic quality. I have no idea why. His dub is fantastic too.

Madonna - Hollywood

The remix shits all over the original in every way. No wonder Madonna used it for that infamous lesbian-ish MTV awards show performance.

No Doubt - It's My Life

Not really something to dance to, but sort of relaxed and peaceful in a way, as opposed to No Doubt's screechy original.

Felix Da Housecat - Silver Screen Shower Scene

A total overhaul that sounds nothing like the original. An unexpected surprise.

Goldfrapp - Twist

Really really weird stuff. But good. And sorta creepy too. Love the way at the end of it how everything comes too a noisy clangy clashy stop with weird breathing noises. Sounds like a machine breaking down!

Britney Spears - Breathe On Me

Took a while to grow on me but it has some great moments.

Can anyone recommended some other great mixes by Jacques?

but i think i blew it and supersaturated myself with JLC this weekend. but what a weekend!

disco to disco

a remix so good its on his album as a LRD track.

He also needs ever so much to release another LRD album....like NOW.

Also: He remixed Mr. Brightside!?!!?! Good or bad, I fucking HAVE to find that. Where'd you hear it?

Jacques should remix the Ratpure.

Grammy award winner!!!

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: Jacques Lu Cont, "It's My Life (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)."

That said, I'm not sure how much I like some of the older LRD stuff. I'll have to go listen to it again.

CONTROL CONTROL CONTROL CONTROL CONTROL CONTROL CONTROL CONTROL CONTROL CONTROL...

This is, of course, EXACTLY why I want to hear the Mr. Brightside remix.

but i gotta say i still find the gwen stefani remix a little flat & boring!

A collection of his remixes or all new? Either way, I kiss you, this is beautiful news.

I think you begin to understand Ronan´s point about the importance of remixes lately when you contemplate all these remix collections and the breathless excitement they generate - remixes have always been the bread and butter of dance music but it seems like now more than ever the key players´ reputations are being forged through their remixes.

There's something about it that suggests a healthiness and frenetic side to the scene at the moment, like could artists really be prolific enough if they were releasing all individual singles and not popping up as remixers everywhere? It really allows for an individual sound to emerge, it's a weird phenomenon of the electro-house explosion, though perhaps there are parallels with other points in history or genres, dancehall even?

challop: i always preferred the other mixes of that royksopp track

xp hott mix, he truly has so much good stuff, i may have said this before but a single disc of his greatest remixes might be the best comp of the decade

still haven't heard new zoot woman. is he still with them?

i thought he was them

it was him and two other dudes when they started.. now i think there's a 4th member?

Finally he's back, the remix for Friendly Fires is remarkable.

The Kevorkian Dub mix of Talk narrowly beats the JLC mix for me. Don't know waht it is about that song, pretty mediocre in it's original form but turns into gold when somebody else gets hold of it.

In some sense, isn't the Coldplay "original" something of a remix itself?

?

bcz of kraftwerk i guess

thats not a remix

in a sense we are all remixes. in a very real sense god is like a remix.

god is the master tape. we are all 128kbps mp3 copies of that master tape, posted on blogs

With viruses.

challop: i always preferred the other mixes of that royksopp track

That's not really a challop - the Trentemoller remix of Royksopp knocks almost everything JLC has done into a cocked hat.

no way, that's not even trentemoller's best remix.

jlc felix remix is above and beyond most everything...

haitch's otherwise a+ golden period mixtape is missing his mix of missy & ciara's 'lose control' which may well be my actual favourite

what's the best trentemøller rmx if not 'what else is there?' ronan?

unai-oh you and i (trentemoller mix) is my favourite...can't find it on youtube or spotify...

http://open.spotify.com/track/4bhV7lK7p24eAb7TFArcM9

actually there it is, mixed with what sounds like extrawelt on the way in and something else on the way out

helped by the fact the original is also better, actually kind of a blueprint for the royksopp one imo

Trentemoeller's Robyn mix is also pretty good. I hear he's got a mix of Seven Nation Army that makes motherfuckers' headz cave in and shit.

also to return to the subject at hand, JLC's mix of the Friendly Fires' "Cool in the Pool" is being hailed as some sort of return but I ain't buying it. the best thing he's produced since that Coldplay mix is easily Frankmusik's "3 Little Words".

love 'Jump In The Pool' but hoping he's slowed it down a bit while empthasising the euphoric chord patterns and the lush synth voices more. it's a v obvious choice of track for him to do his typical thing tho.

Haha it sounds almost exactly like that, lush and warm and euphoric and slowbuilding. He does something very nice with carnival drums at the end, looping them throughout. It's a really good track.

Thanks to James for pointing out its existence, I didn't know about it.

He keeps all the best bits of the song in and kind of puts them in different places, the enormous swell with the "keep breathing, keep searching, keep holding on" bit and the big drum smashes is all present and correct but just made bigger.

JLC produced Frankmusik? I had no idea.

friendly fires seems to inspire really great remixes.

my favourite jlc remix is of britney's "breathe on me"! so good. (was also gonna rep for his mix of new order's jetstream but then realized the one i was thinking of was by richard x. whoops.)

I think he produced Frankmusik's entire last EP, but I'm certain he at least produced "3 Little Words".

yes, "breathe on me" is awesome

bit disappointed with the FF remix in the end but maybe just because i really do like the original

Have to say that the Frankmusik album is just glorious (a couple of duds) and sounds almost entirely like a new LRD album.

His Sneaky Sound System remix is glorious.

paper faces remix of fdh isn't up to much

the first two tracks off the FM album sound like LRD, the rest gets weaker as it goes on which is a shame. I wonder what happened between the EPs and the album?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jul/15/robbie-williams-rejoins-take-that1

They secretly wrote and recorded six songs that became the foundation for the forthcoming album, produced by Stuart Price.

I'm sure this will be up to the consistently high standard we've all come to expect from Stuart Price since Confessions on a Dancefloor.

For many, Take That were the original template for boyband success.

This isn't the first place I've seen that claim, and maybe it's just a Britisher-centric observation, but New Edition and New Kids on the Block both came before them and were pretty successful the world over iirc.

mm. well in fact original manager NM Smith based TT on NKOTB in the first place. the original advert for band members actually said 'dancers wanted for Britain's answer to New Kids..' or words to that effect.

op here
still love this tonight... only 4 bars of every song = perfection.
and no one does the start-to-finish strings remixes (felix, even starsailor)

give me new jlc!
or alternatively, what went wrong? besides becoming a proper producer

Still hoping for a compilation of his career-peak remixes to turn up at some point...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3SNTpZdFhwo

ayyy

really not feeling the new stuff. too justice.

would have been huge for me in 2006. still like it. i suppose that's an endorsement.

https://soundcloud.com/tiga/tiga-plush-jacques-lu-cont-4

Woah when he decide to go all ravey again? This is great.

Nice.

i'm in an i hate fun mood, but this is winning me over a bit.
https://soundcloud.com/tracques/tracques-album-sampler

lunartick put me in the mind of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp48QzSerT8

not quite as dramatic tho

anyway, yeah, this tracques is a cut above

i've suddenly had to listen to the mr brightside remix every day for the last week