Goldfrapp + DFA
8 December 2005 :: posted by TravisStory goes something like this. Goldfrapp asked DFA to remix any song off of “Supernature.” DFA chose “Slide In.” 100 promos were made and sent out. This isn’t the next single… it just is what it is. Maybe it’ll appear as a b-side or something some day down the road. Knowing Goldfrapp they’ll probably put it as an audio track on their next DVD single. They’re always doing crap like that. Like who really wants an audio track on a DVD??? Regardless - it’s not for sale and none of us are hearing it any time soon. Ha!
I’m not totally sold on the merging of Goldfrapp and DFA’s styles. I’m just not buying the Glam Electro and Dance Punk mash-up. Like some things probably shouldn’t be mixed… you know? Like peas are good. And chocolate is good too. But I don’t think I’d be all hot for chocolate covered peas. Well maybe. But probably not. I have re-evaluated.
Somewhere around the five minute mark I kind of forgot this was a Goldfrapp remix. Y’know? Like halfway through it just sounds so DFA and Goldfrapp is such a distant memory. Obviously, like everything else in DFA’s world, it is more about DFA and less about Goldfrapp.
Shitty quality. I’m sorry.
Listen: Goldfrapp - “Slide In” (DFA mix) (mp3)
Edit 12/19: Thanks to Moebius Rex - he has a hq version.
Purchase: Amazon
Congrats to LCD Soundsystem for their Grammy Nominations. WTF!
December 8th, 2005 at 11.21 pm
Travis honey, where did you get this? :-)
December 9th, 2005 at 7.53 am
You motherfucking god you. I’ve been feverishly trying to find this!
Obviously not as good as I was praying it would be, but pretty bloody good all the same. It’s quite similar to the Gorillaz remix really.
Also, maybe the 64kbps is cutting out some of the awesomeness?
December 9th, 2005 at 8.16 am
yeah, i’m pretty sure the 64kbps is cutting down on the awesomness… there’s a lot of loss there.
but it’s better than nothing. i had to turn over every rock just to find that. hopefully something of better quality will surface.
December 9th, 2005 at 1.14 pm
Thanks for this. Regardless of the quality, it beats having to use that player at goldfrapp.free.fr to listen to it.
December 9th, 2005 at 2.15 pm
that player. i have never been able to get that player to work. i just assumed it didn’t.
December 10th, 2005 at 12.51 am
Ahh! It’s killer. Thank you, thank you!
December 14th, 2005 at 3.26 am
what do you mean “I’m just not buying the Glam Electro and Dance Punk mash-up”. This just sounds like disco to me, it’s sexy…or maybe it’s just Alison.
Yeah I like this. Thanks.
However DFA did manage to overtake the song. Once again.
December 14th, 2005 at 7.39 pm
disco is the common denominator of the two.
January 19th, 2006 at 4.02 pm
I’m starting to feel the criticism DFA is getting for some of their newer remixes. The DARE remix is pretty weak and the Hot Chip remix isn’t quite doin it for me either. So when pitchfork reviewed this single I kinda just went with it and expected it to be another give-away moneymaker for the label. Thank the lord it isn’t. There is something really special about this remix as far as the DFA catalogue is concerned. I’m digging the “more disco than punk,” lets lights some candles and turn down the lights, sleazier side of DFA. Goldfrapp knew what she was getting into having this mix made and I think she was most likely just honored to get graced by the legend. The fact that her vocals only accent about three minutes in the track seems arrogant but at the same time who the fuck cares if the track can last without it? There is no rulebook to the re-mix and until then who better than these guys to keep fucking with us.
March 16th, 2006 at 3.16 pm
[...] Goldfrapp “Slide In (DFA Remix)” - If you’re a true blue music fiend, you probably grabbed this super-rare DFA remix (only 100 copies pressed to vinyl) when it popped up over on BigStereo earlier this month. And that’s great, that’s cool–Travis and the other good folks at BigStereo deserve mucho props for getting the song up and out to the masses, especially when you consider how many people were apparently chomping at the bit to get their mitts on it the moment the news that such a remix was in the works entered the ether. However, some of you may have noticed that it was a somewhat low-fidelity 64 kbps file. Now, I dunno why that was, ‘zactly–maybe it was all the BigStereo folks could find at the time, maybe they reduced the filesize to make it easier to store on their servers, or perhaps they were asked to only make a lo-fi version of the track available. Whatever the case, I figured I’d go for broke here and offer a markedly, richer, fuller version of the track for your amusement. As a sort of holiday present, let’s say. And we’ll see what happens…. [...]
July 10th, 2006 at 5.55 pm
Excellent !