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[Ryo]

Think mid 90's. Someone remixes a Tori Amos song and turns it into one that years nicest dance hits. Anyone remember this remix? Anyone know who made it?

Any help would be great

 

[Jonnyram]

Well there was BT + Tori Amos - Blue Skies, but that's probably not the one you mean.
There is a track by Rabbit in the Moon called Out of Body Experience (on Sasha & Digweed's Northern Exposure) that samples Precious Things, if that's what you mean.

 

[Dilbert]

Well there was BT + Tori Amos - Blue Skies, but that's probably not the one you mean.

That was the first thing which came to mind. If that's what you're looking for, it's on the bonus CD that comes with his Ima album. Good stuff, though slightly dated sounding at this point.

 

[B'z-chan]

Well there was BT + Tori Amos - Blue Skies, but that's probably not the one you mean.
There is a track by Rabbit in the Moon called Out of Body Experience (on Sasha & Digweed's Northern Exposure) that samples Precious Things, if that's what you mean.

Those were the two things that came to my mind. Love BT, last album sucked to me though. But he did a good job on that mix.

 

[Jonnyram]

Another one... Professional Widow. So good was the remix that it became the single mix in its own right. Armand van Helden was responsible for that one.

 

[Rei_Toei]

Hey, talking about Tori Amos, recently I heard 'Me and a gun' and thought 'awesome', but it turned out that the original only had vocals, and what I heard was a remix with added instruments. Does anyone have an idea where I should be looking for that song? Maybe it was home-brewn, I heard it on some crappy internet radiostation without logs .

 

[8bit]

Another one... Professional Widow. So good was the remix that it became the single mix in its own right. Armand van Helden was responsible for that one.

Yeah, it's probably that.

 

[Ryo]

Thank you guys. Gonna check them out and see/listen if anyone of them is the one I am looking for.

 

[Ryo]

Another one... Professional Widow. So good was the remix that it became the single mix in its own right. Armand van Helden was responsible for that one

Straight on the nail there my friend. It was the tune I was looking for. Thank you

 

[Days like these...]

Whatever happened to Armand Van Helden? He popularized the speed garage sound with the time stretched vocals and that MASSIVE reverse bass line in the clubs (here in the states anyway) Wasn't he hailed as the savior of dance music who would finally make DANCE mainstream in America?

 

[border]

Heh, I stopped following her right around the time when instead of using new songs as B-sides, she'd just throw in 10 shitty remixes of the same song. She's a total flake, and I think the recording studios just let her get out of control after the first few albums.

Does anybody know if anything after "Boys For Pele" is any good?

 

[ToxicAdam]

Heh, I stopped following her right around the time when instead of using new songs as B-sides, she'd just throw in 10 shitty remixes of the same song. She's a total flake, and I think the recording studios just let her get out of control after the first few albums.

Does anybody know if anything after "Boys For Pele" is any good?

I agree with you. There is nothing I can really recommend to you that is awesome since that CD.

Most of her good stuff you hear on the radio ('Some Kind of Fairytale' was good). Off of her current CD, the only thing I would recommend would be "Barons of Suburbia". It has that lush, driving sound of hers that I dig.

 

[heavy liquid]

Heh, I stopped following her right around the time when instead of using new songs as B-sides, she'd just throw in 10 shitty remixes of the same song. She's a total flake, and I think the recording studios just let her get out of control after the first few albums.

That's why I never buy any singles from bands like Depeche Mode or New Order. How many remixes can someone listen to?

I think that's a good assessment of her getting out of control after her first album or so. Some of her CDs would've been so much better had she kept it down to about 10 really strong songs, instead of 18 tracks at 79 minutes that have all of her half-song noodling interspersed throughout

Does anybody know if anything after "Boys For Pele" is any good?

I like 'From The Choirgirl Hotel' and 'To Venus and Back' a lot. Strong albums where she was able to keep her flakiness under control a bit.

 

[border]

I think that's a good assessment of her getting out of control after her first album or so.

Only one good album? No way.

Her first two albums were excellent. She had a producer on those. For Boys For Pele they started letting her be the producer, and everything just got stupid (though there are some really nice tracks on the album).

After that, she is just all over the place. I don't know if studios have given her a producer since then, or whether they are still just letting her run wild (which is kind of why I wanted to know if recent years have improved)....

 

[heavy liquid]

Only one good album? No way.

Her first two albums were excellent. She had a producer on those. For Boys For Pele they started letting her be the producer, and everything just got stupid (though there are some really nice tracks on the album).

No, I don't think she only had one good album. Like you said, 'Under the Pink' is also an excellent album, and it's almost as good as her debut, IMO. The b-side "Sister Janet" from that album is one of my favorite songs of hers, btw.

But yeah, I'll agree that 'Boys for Pele' is where things started going astray. Which isn't to say there aren't some great fucking songs on there like "Caught a Lite Sneeze". But the overall album would've been a lot stronger if she had cut it down from 18 songs to 10 REALLY good ones. Put the others on b-sides... fans like me still would've eaten it up.

 

[jetjevons]

Those were the two things that came to my mind. Love BT, last album sucked to me though. But he did a good job on that mix.

Man I LOVE the northern expsoure CDs.