jacques lu cont: can do no wrong....defend/refute

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there are two lucont brightside mixes, right? a lucont dub and a thin white duke mix or something?

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 7 March 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link

There is a dub, a vocal edit, and a full length vocal mix

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

oh which version is which? I might have the vocal edit.

― djdee (djdee2005), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

The dub version doesn't begin with the keyboard riff

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

the only jlc remixes I haven't really been taken with are the aloud and starsailor ones. atm i'd probably rank the killers' one among his top 5.

― Mil (Mil), Sunday, 13 March 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

The Juliet track actually is amazing. I had a weird gut feeling leaving the house to go and DJ on Thursday, that it might be worth bringing, so burned it onto CD before I left. Sure enough I played it and it worked really well.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 13 March 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I said it was fantastic to you on AIM and you were all like 'meh'.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 14 March 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I've had a JLC marathon over the past few weeks. My conclusion is that there are still a few remixers/remixes I'll take over him and moreover, I don't find his tracks (mainly the mixes) very home listening-friendly, unlike, say, Rex or Ewan or Shep (and by this, I also mean that I wasn't inspired to dance around my living room or strut down the street). Most of the LRD stuff also left me cold, either through ageing issues or either being cheesy or ponderous (and I've tried over the years to like anything LRD related besides 'Hey You'). The ponderous issue today also applies somewhat to the Paper Faces mixes.

So, my POV would be:

1. 'It's My Life'
2. 'Avalon'
3. 'What You Waiting For?'
4. 'Hey You (What's That Sound?)'
5. 'Four To The Floor'

I'm interested in hearing the Killers mix, and some of the others have their moments. I'd like to hear him in a 4-min pop song environment (outside Zoot Woman anyway). Some good rights and some dull wrongs, but I'm always open to change.

― BARMS, Monday, 14 March 2005 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I like the "It's My Life" mix but it strikes me as perhaps the most straightforwardly, er, dancey of JLC's recent mixes, the song pretty much sacrificed to the spacey electro-prog drift.

I've come to the conclusion that maybe "Four To The Floor" is his most all-round, um, successful mix, which is odd because at the time of the chart success of the other similar electro remix over here I tried to convince myself I was unfazed by it. Listening back to it now (partially helped by hearing the crappy original), it just seems like such an amazing balance of groove and tears and blustering and just a huge sense of cosmic loneliness.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 14 March 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I like the "It's My Life" mix but it strikes me as perhaps the most straightforwardly, er, dancey of JLC's recent mixes, the song pretty much sacrificed to the spacey electro-prog drift.

I feel that way about the 'Breathe On Me' mix - definitely prefer the original there (possibly lack of an extended outro aside). Also, I like my prog sweetened to taste.

― BARMS, Monday, 14 March 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't heard the "Breathe On Me" mix (I've heard James Holden's mix of it though - I could imagine them being a bit similar actually!). Hard to top the original i'd reckon.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 14 March 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link

JCL's is a lot more disco than Holden's.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 14 March 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I know I was meh about the Juliet tune before. I meant to include that or imply it in my post above!

I think all the aliases have very very strong moments of success, Paper Faces mix of "Living In A Magazine", and "Gem" are really amazing.

The Felix mix is far and away my favourite of all the remixes and I think the best, but his style has changed since then and maybe I'm inclined to agree with Tim as regards recent stuff/Starsailor.

It is a very persistent track, the Starsailor one, doesn't seem to lose its lustre.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link

someone needs to put all of his mixes in a folder and YSI it.

I've only heard "Just Let Go," "Breathe On Me," "Mr. Brightside" and that Bloc Party remix. The first two are brill.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I've also heard that Starsailor mix. Good stuff.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Blow: A Jacques Lu Cont Mix

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

BLOC PARTY REMIX!!?!?

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Did he do a dub of the Starsailor one?

― Mil (Mil), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:34 (nineteen years ago) link

todd the godd

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually really like the "Mr Brightside" remix! I haven't heard the original, mind. It could be the original that's secretly doing it for me underneath all the synth cumulus clouds. But it's so pretty! And the chorus so aching! Mind you he's pretty good generally at recontextualising vocals so that they're suggestive of a quite different original song.

Hey did anyone download that "In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up" mix DJ Xiu put up? The second half was all like this!

I'm gonna write something about Lu Cont I think.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link

i bet Jacques really loves The Killers, it wasn't just for the money

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago) link

That Stylus file JoB links - why is it so large? Is it a mix (as in continuous) or a track remix?

― BARMS, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link

It's a 34 minute mix. Did you not see the tracklist?

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

No, I was on the way to dinner.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

We should have a Lu Cont sweepstake and take guesses at what he is going to remix next.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Perhaps it will be THE BRAVERY.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

1. Starsailor - Four To The Floor
2. Gwen - What You Waiting For
3. Killers - Mr Brightside
4. The Faint - Conductor
5. Electric Six (if only for the "fire in the disco" and then HUGE bit).

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I was gonna say the Bravery or Doves.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

jacques lu cont shd rmx my version of "since yesterday".

I think the only thing I like I've heard of jlc's so far is his "what you waiting for?" rmx, and then I like tim f's story abt felix da starting off his set with the interminable stefani tick tocks even more.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Cozen - I put his Fischerspooner and Juliet mixes on that CDR I gave you.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry - I missed the 'I like'.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link

HOW COULD YOU NOT LIKE THE JULIET?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I am listening to it now, CAPS man.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Coldplay, "Talk (Jacques Lu Cont Is Going To Turn This Rubbish Song Back Into Kraftwerk mix)"

― 'haitch' (haitch), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link

cozen can i hear your 'since yesterday'??

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link

alba: good god I take back what I said and kneel down in catatonic supplication before my new god, mr. jacques. le. cont.

stevem: only if jlc rmxs it.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link

What the hell is Amy Phillips talking about in her review of the "Mr Brightside" remix? DEFINITELY better than the original, there's no question in my mind. Also I'm pretty sure it has come out on vinyl and is thus not an "iTunes exclusive".

― i am nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link

1. Silver Screen Shower Scene
2. Avalon
3. What You Waiting For
4. Hey You What's That Sound
5. Its My Life

For me, anyway. The Killers and Britney ones are good but the Starsailor mix is ruined for me by the vocals.

The Bloc Party remix is Paul Epworth, isn't it?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Matt, re: 2 -5: get out of my head ;-).

― BARMS, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Madonna's teamed up once again with French producer Mirwais as well as Stuart Price, her musical director on the Reinvention Tour.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I wasn't including original tracks by LRD!

But if I was, I'd have Jacques Your Body/Sometimes in a top 10.

Also still want to know what the track he opened with in Dublin was, it had a huge Vitalicesque snare drum and a riff that was like something from an Abba song (and may have been) looping over and over, sounded very decadent.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

No, Amy Phillips is right. The worst part is the "touching his chest" line, which in the original introduces a heavier feel and a darker harmonic tone, but which JLC doesn't do anything with and thus it just feels sorta weightless.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, I can understand why someone might like the remix, anyway, but really, how does it improve the original?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

that "ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja" bit off the Fabric mix is one of my favourite things he's done haha

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Jaymc (and amy) otm, it's really not much better than the original in my mind, although it offers hints of what might have been...

― deej., Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I prefer the Lindbergh Palace remix actually...

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

What is this I hear about a paper faces remix to "Ready 2 Wear" by Felix??? The fact that this track exists and I havent heard it yet is killing me on the inside. Someone here has to be on slsk so I can dl this gem.

― modernaire, Friday, 18 March 2005 08:17 (nineteen years ago) link

OMG if they find it GMAIL to me immediately! ddrake at geemail dot com

― deej., Friday, 18 March 2005 08:22 (nineteen years ago) link

but of course

― modernaire, Friday, 18 March 2005 09:14 (nineteen years ago) link

oh yeah, there's a benny banassi remix to Ready 2 Wear floating around too

― modernaire, Friday, 18 March 2005 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link

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