Chemical Brothers remix of Slow by Kylie

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Their best work in fucking ages?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link

I think so.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

I only heard it on the radio once, but I was immediately lit up hearing it. Any word on an official UK release (yeah yeah, limited 12" promo but fuck you if some mentalist gives you 90 quid for it, Vinyl Exchange) or am I goin' import on this one?

― Barima (Barima), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago) link

Official release on CDS on 1 March 2004.

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 7 February 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

I really really love this, played it last night at a party and everyone went mad, it's as good as any of the collaborations they've ever done, better really, fuck indie vocalists, they're clearly no match for someone used to singing to dance.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 7 February 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

jezz, how could i've missed this thread! Ronan you are totally, totally otm. fuck indie vocalists indeed. i also played it at a party few nights ago and everyone went mad.

it sounds as if Tom & Ed had woken up one morning, decided that "It Doesn't Matter" is their best track after all, and went on to meld its frenzied mantra-like stomp with tons of E-friendly monster build-ups!! and i was this close to giving up on them after the excrutiating "Golden Path", what a spectacular return to form.

― Mind Taker, Monday, 16 February 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

Don't you just love the way in the first chorus there's that trademark chems acid menace but it doesn't quite go off there and then, just hints at what's to come. It really gives a thump to the chorus that wasn't there in the original, much as I liked it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 February 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago) link

I should check this out. I love that new Kylie CD.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 16 February 2004 21:45 (twenty years ago) link

i got bored of the original suprisingly quickly, now it's just mere wallpaper to me - but the remix delivers on the inital promise and then some. and i didn't know it hasn't been properly released yet! i slsk'd it in mid-december and thought that for whatever strange reason it passed underneath everyone's radar.

― Mind Taker, Monday, 16 February 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago) link

"The Golden Path" >> "Slow (Chemical Brothers Remix)".

Why does everyone dismiss "The Golden Path"? Because of the cheesy lyrics? I think it's a great single.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

This remix is also on the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy "soundtrack" album, if you don't wanna wait two weeks (in the US)...

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

Golden Path=sounds like the beginning of a top drawer chems single which never gets to the main part, has a bit of a chems style end to it and nothing more. Basically it just sounds like all the bridges of a typical Chemical Brother's song stucked together with crap drum production, almost non existant drums really, and Wayne Coyne's voice like some sort of de-technofier.

Sorry but I really despise the Golden Path.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know how anyone could not love that climax. Glorious chimes, gorgeous harmonies, wonderful escalation and that plea--"Please forgive me, I never meant to hurt you"--what a fabulous Wayne cameo.

I mean, the rest of the song--the "lions and wizards yet to come" nonsesne and all that--I could understand dismissing all but completely. But that climax is the most life-affirming thing they've done in ages.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

To me "life affirming" is not a wet production, Denmark or something, or even the Beth Orton collab off Come With Us if you want vocals are far more on it for me. When Denmark breaks into the guitar lick that's Chemical Brothers and that sort of dance for me.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link

couldn't care less about the cheesy lyrics... i personally dismiss "The Golden Path" because:
a) it's hookless, drab and joyless
b) i hate the way Wayne Coyne "sings"
c) groove-wise it doesn't go anywhere
d) the "please forgive me" part feels horribly anti-climactic (tho Ewan Pearson fixed it good in the far superior remix)
e) it's the Chems' most desperate pandering to the Q magazine demographic yet - and it's not like they can expect anything other than lukewarm three-star Q reviews from now on ad infinitum... so i say, fuck 'em!

― Mind Taker, Monday, 16 February 2004 22:23 (twenty years ago) link

the Chemical Brothers....whoever THEY are

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:24 (twenty years ago) link

I like it a little bit because as I've said before it reminds me a bit of Julian Cope. More wizards and goblins needed, less Please forgive me bobbins though.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link

i haven't heard many of the other remixes, but is 'slow' possibly kylie's most remixable song ever?

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, if there are any other killer "Slow" remixes i'd love to hear about them!

― Mind Taker, Monday, 16 February 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago) link

The "Project K Electro Mix" (and the instrumental dub of that one) were the best remixes up to now.

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 16 February 2004 23:09 (twenty years ago) link

what I'm sayin' is that if you have the Chemical Brothers and you have Steve Drozd and you somehow fail to bring the big huge motherfucking drums, something is k-wrong

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 00:02 (twenty years ago) link

what I'm sayin' is that if you have the Chemical Brothers and you have Steve Drozd and you somehow fail to bring the big huge motherfucking drums, something is k-wrong

truth.

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago) link

Tis on the NME CD freebie of last week, yeah?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link

Motherfuck 'Godlen Path'. 'Get Yourself High' was good though, no great shakes, but pretty decent... but I haven't bought a Chems record since 1999...

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

twenty years pass...

I like it [The Golden Path] a little bit because as I've said before it reminds me a bit of Julian Cope.
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I always think this! Or have since getting into Julian Cope in the mid-2010s, a decade after I first heard The Golden Path. Latter is still the only Flips I listen to.

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 25 October 2024 09:01 (ten hours ago) link

Also the Chems' remix of Slow is as titanic as ever

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 25 October 2024 09:01 (ten hours ago) link

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