“Working with the Kronos Quartet was like firing a .38 Special with a clam shell holster: beauty meets brains," Tom Waits said of this collab, which had the Dalai Lama enthralled. And Spinner.com has a free MP3 so you can hear it for yourself at www.spinner.com/2007/07/02/exclusive-mp3-tom-waits-and-kronos-quartet-way-down-in-the-ho/.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
The Prodigy – Omen (Herve's End Of The World Remix)
One of the best mixes of The Prodigy's return-to-form (or, at least, return-to-the-charts) single Omen is the Herve's End Of The World Remix. It's available exclusively on iTunes and, while you're logged in, check their version of the band's Invaders Must Die album for a very interesting 16:44 Track By Track Walkthrough audio commentary and a frankly useless Digital Booklet.
Little Man Tate - I Am Alive
Interesting new take on anti-piracy here from Brighton's Skint label. Firstly, they're not sending advance copies to radio or press (so there's no star rating with this review), to avoid unscrupulous DJs and journos dropping off their promos at Record & Tape Exchange or ripping them to Pirate Bay. But the main deal is that each downloader of the finished release will get a ticket to Little Man Tate's forthcoming gig at Magna in Rotherham. It's very much a test of the water and, if it works, expect future releases from the label like this.
Pet Shop Boys – Brit Awards Medley
As we go to print, the new Pet Shop Boys album is only available to pre-order on iTunes, so we can only hear a 30-second sample of each track. But one that everyone's heard in its entirety is their fantastic 10-minute medley which was performed at the close of the The Brits 2009. Mixed by Stuart Price, it instantly became the joint best mash-up ever to have been performed at The Brits (tied of course with Rihanna's Umbrella from 2008 which was mashed with, or rather mashed all over, Klaxon's It's not Over Yet). Elsewhere on iTunes, Apple has the 35-song/2-video PopArt package to download at £5.49.
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