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| Jay-Z & Kanye West featuring Rick Ross, Meek Mill & Frank Ocean “No Church In The Wild (MMG Remix)” Posted: 28 Dec 2011 05:40 PM PST
Of course, he then remembers he’s pretty well known for jumping on tracks he admires on bootleg remixes anyway, and cooks up something resulting in this: a freestyle to Throne highlight, the Frank Ocean-blessed “No Church In The Wild”, gone MMG-style. Rick Ross contributes to the original’s vivid lyrical imagery (“Tears on the mausoleum floor/ Blood stains the coliseum doors”; “Coke on her black skin made a stripe like a zebra/ I call that jungle fever”) with a couple solid word pics of his own (“Cornered the game, record label on his chain/ Right hand on the bible watch the floor catch flames”), but it’s Meek Mill‘s turn at bat that truly steals the win here, the Philly emcee’s taking of the song’s focus from a big budget baller look to preach the tales of an young street hustler trying to make his way up through the concrete jungle (“Thanksgiving with the birds just drugs for a feast/ Youngin’ only thirteen with a snub in his fleece/ Even though his heart cold, he in love with the heat”) providing a street-tough gutter vibe that aligns pretty nicely with the tense bassline cycles and icy synth washes of the ominous backing track. |
| Fleetwood Mac “Dreams (Megaman & Panic City Remix)” Posted: 28 Dec 2011 04:18 PM PST
The song, one of many crazy-beloved entries housed on the group’s 1977 blockbuster classic Rumours, just feels like the result of the planets and stars aligning in a certain magical way; the soft, warm churn of the steady drum hits and guitar flourishes having the power to transport one’s mind to a state of dreamy bliss from second one, and the somber heartache found in Stevie Nicks’ distinctive rasp as she comes to terms with the finality of a romance damn near leaving one wanting to be nursing a bruised heart over a glass of wine in the dark just so her words can dig in deeper all amounting to a gem that’s never un-welcome when hit by a random spin of it at any time of the day. No wonder then, that the song has experienced a renewed life of sorts in the past decade (otherwise known as the “Nothing Is Un-Remixable” era) with countless DJ’s and producers taking a stab at giving “Dreams” a modernized luster, whether in darker, (whatever)-gaze-y framings that emphasize the emotional ache behind the lyric, or flashier dancefloor revisions that pay tribute to the song’s timelesss greatness with a fist-pump grandeur club-sparkle seemingly specifically made to incite various drunken “THAT’S MY SONG!!!” exclamations once the TGIF night crowd figure out what song is being tinkered with beyond the thump. This latest remix, by DJ’s Megaman and Panic City, falls into the latter category and it’s simply fantastic, utilizing many familiar dance production tricks in such a grandiose way that the whole thing deserves a slot on a post-midnight NYE playlist to help sustain that giddy celebratory feeling long after the ball has dropped. For the younger set not all that sure about hyping a club edit for the baby boomers, here’s DJ Panic City’s equally strong remix of Drake’s “Take Care”: |
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