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- From: bj+@CMU.EDU (Brandon Chin)
- Newsgroups: alt.rap
- Subject: A Tribe Called Quest Remixes
- Message-ID: <Mf1keB600VQj83sZsP@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 02:42:21 GMT
- Organization: Junior, Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Well, I had a chance to take a look at the "Luck of Lucien/Butter" UK
- Import 12" today. My man picked it up in NYC a couple of weeks ago. He
- likes it and I've been waiting awhile to check it out; I've been so busy
- lately. So I walk in, he's playin' some house and then he mixes in some
- other song and when I realized what it was, I almost ripped the record
- off the tables.
-
- There's a remix and a dub of each. The Lucien remix is *very* unlike
- the original and has lost its hip hop flavor and went the way of dance
- music. Hearing the remix made me (unfortunately) think of Black Sheep's
- Strobelight Honey remixes. Its also sped up quite a bit and its missing
- some key melodies from the original. Tip's vocals are all there
- (surprisingly) although some other parts of the song are rearranged into
- different parts of the song ("voulez-vous...le poo poo"). The Lucien
- dub (I forget the names of the mixes) is very much an instrumental of
- the remix.
-
- The Butter remix (I think its called the Hip Hop Remix) is (you guessed
- it) more on the hip hop tip than the Lucien remix. Its basically the
- original with more horns and keyboards and other assorted instruments.
- Personally, I think the remix's added melodies & such detract from the
- song itself. I found myself paying more attention to the new
- instruments in the song rather than the song itself (perhaps cuz I'm too
- used to the original). Phife's vocals are all there but Tip's ("Its
- like Butter...like the butter baby")are gone. The dub is different from
- the remix--its little exerpts of Phife over a disco-type beat. Its even
- got some female diva-type vocals. Foul.
-
- The vocals were taken from the originals, so basically it seems that
- they just snatched the vocals off the originals and put 'em over a new
- beat. If you're looking for something like the Scenario US Remix (not
- the UK)...the one with Hood, you're looking in the wrong place. Maybe
- that UK Scenario remix (the one on the B side of Hot Sex) will pop up on
- the remix album...
-
- Overall, I wasn't too impressed/happy with this 12", and it makes me
- wonder what they were thinking. The sleeve says that they're from the
- forthcoming remix album "Revised Mixes for the Seasoned Traveller" (or
- something like that...I forgot the exact name). But in any case, the 12
- is UK and it doesn't say whether the remix album will be UK only (like
- the De La) or not. However, if this 12 is any indication of what will
- be on the remix album, I just might pass unless they include something
- like "If The Papes Come" or some phat remixes (cuz Lucien and Butter
- ain't it).
-
- -bj
-