Mock & Toof
17 April 2006 :: posted by Travis“Lycra Virgin” is one of those tracks that is destined to bounce around the internet. There is no avoiding it.
Re-edits of ‘old’ songs often have an unavoidable sense of irony… They often take on what we now expect the past to sound like. “Like A Virgin”, even though it is the ultimate artifact of the 1980s, actually wasn’t really supposed to sound the way it did. That wasn’t the 80s. There wasn’t enough synth. There wasn’t enough sampling. It wasn’t plastic enough. Mock & Toof tell it like it really was with “Lycra Virgin.” The irony is that 2006 sounds more 1984 than 1984 actually did.
And of course, Mock & Toof’s take is certainly better than Christina and Britney’s version. Sans kiss that is.
“Lycra Virgin” is freely available on Mock & Toof’s Myspace profile (for now)… where you can also stream their forthcoming remix for The Juan McLean that Pitchfork loved back in February.
Mock & Toof - “Lycra Virgin”
April 19th, 2006 at 3.09 am
hi travis! thanks for the link, tho i must say i dunno if i really agree with what you’re saying here - ‘like a virgin’ was pop dance standard stuff back then. it sits pretty comfortably with stuff like cyndi lauper, miami vice, prince, wham et al. if you take a look at the hits of that era there really wasn’t that much sampling in those pop tunes, and to my memory nothing as awash in synth action and effects as this mock and toof remix.
April 20th, 2006 at 8.24 am
Oh I think we’re agreeing more than disagreeing. Like a song comes out with lots of wooshing synth and sampling and people jump the gun and say “wow that’’s so 80s.” But how much is it? This mix takes the elements and just pushes them over the top. Like our memory has this character of what the 80s should sound like whether or not it’s reality.
Whatever, it’s a hot mix.