Wow! Ada - "Eve" DJ Koze mix - holy shit! No, wait, "Livedriver" Sascha funke mix! both sides are great!!!

You've discovered the wonders of dance music!

These... feet. They can move? I'm going to sell all my back issues of Mojo on eBay and buy ecstasy with the proceeds. Hurrah!

haha neither of these remixes are that good, come on

they are!

I lean towards the Funke one, it is slow burning and very good. sounded shit on headphones but when I got home and played it it was very good.

The Koze one is great, but not really that different from the original in alot of ways. Maybe I'm just sore because my copy is warped and that side is hard to mix as a result.

xpost to naysayers

I dunno I diagree.

The original of Eve is very tight and pretty and has a nice bit of snap in it towards the end, but its definitely what I think of as "theoretical" dance music in that it sounds good when you're at home but gets really tiresome to actually dance to.

What Koze does that's so genius on his best work is that the way he constructs the groove makes it kind of queasy and dangerous. It's like a big old steam train chunking along then a crosswind hits it and it gets just enough wobble going on to make it feel like the whole thing could derail at any minute.

So I think this remix takes the anthemic prettiness of the original and adds a) more thump to make it a more energetic dancing experience, and b) makes it just disorienting enough to be exciting and surprising.

I've not listened to the Funke one that much yet, but still it definitely takes Ada to a different level for sure.

There's something about Koze that frustrates me really, all the time, and I think it is that he actually is not a very good producer. The stuff sounds shit alot of the time or does things in funny places, it's a bit like Mylo like that, the ideas are great but sometimes the execution just feels wrong.

Like the sort of key changes in the Ada remix just feel wrong, for me, it's like he's sort of slapdash and tries out something crazy and then leaves it in the track.

I'm not sure his stuff wouldn't be better if it were actually more anonymous and less DJ Koze, ie the initial idea in the Ada track done a bit more ruthlessly would have been better I think.

Do people know what I mean?

I do actually like the track, just with some reservations.

Thing is it's the slapdashness that I quite like. Agree that sometimes it sounds like crap, like on 'late night checkout' but sometimes it just makes the tunes sound so kind of hardcore but in a really unexpected way. It reminds me of early acid records that way, like the warehouse-door-slamming noises on Phuture's "Slam" and the way they're totally amateurish but really effective.

Yeah I think it's probably his appeal aswell, but there is a part of me that thinks, in quite a rockist way probably, how fucking good would Brutalaga Square be with the usual studio engineer running things

maybe it wouldn't be better at all, I don't know, it just can feel odd.

the sascha funke mix mixes amazingly with jori hulkkonen's remix of 2 dawgs on mood music, one of my tracks of the year.

Like them both, but the Funke remix is better than the original 'Lifedriver' (which I never loved) and the Koze one sure isn't better than the original 'Eve' (no shame in that of course, since 'Eve' is perfection.)

i think koze deliberately goes for that falling apart at the seams kind of production. after he has completed a track, he'll run it through a kaoss pad and do a live remix that becomes the final master, keeping all the mistakes and the lo fi ness that the kaoss pad adds to the sound. i think 'brutalaga square' was definitely enhanced by using this somewhat wayward technique.

it's weird, I have some live sets and he goes nuts with, presumably, the Kaos pad and it sounds truly awful in some parts, like someone at a party overdoing the crappy fx on a DJM-600 or something!

it's very easy to do. i used to use one but stopped when i realised i was having a ton of fun at the expense of everyone elses enjoyment. krzzzzzschhhh crrruuuunccch!!

the amount of times I get bored at work and begin messing with the echo function and the line in switch or other silly pioneer effects is unbelievable