Filtered Vol 1

OUT LIKE A LAMB.

(continued from Burn List Mar 09)... From the "The Lion and the Cobra originally, "Troy (Phoenix from the Flame)" rose to the top of the dance charts in 2002. It wasn't til December of 2008 that Sinead O'Connor performed "Troy" live once again, after 20 years from the time her debut single came out.

Recorded live in London and appearing in Sinead O'Connor's 2009 double-disc release, "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (Special Edition)", the first track in Filtered Vol. 1 sets an aural experience intended to capture dance music's classic productions, current chart-toppers, and heat-seekers exclusively from a track's basic, essential elements - vocals and melody. Backmask Danny Tenaglia's "Elements". That's Filtered Vol 1. Inasmuch as I have blogged evangelically on the geniuses of essential DJ/producers in today's electronic music, I am in no way oblivious to the sheer talent of electronic music's singer/songwriters. The artists whose album versions of the tracks didn't quite make it as big. The vocal renderings of much too many artists appearing after the word "featuring" in the song credits. Filtered Vol 1 features hot electronic music tracks in a capella, live recordings, demos, acoustic versions. And after a weekend of dancing til the crowds leave, of feeling the jungle, the ether, and then landing right back to the present and the mundane, you just may still have the beats in your ears to be your own DJ/producer to these sunday morning tracks... filtered.

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BURN LIST MAR 09

IN LIKE A LION.

Probably the hardest-tearing set to come out of this flash player yet, Burn List Mar 09 is more thump than it has melody and celebrity. Not one for the airwaves, these tracks still carry just as much clout in dance charts and clubs (although that maybe less so in this Rockin' Country).

If you happened to have been one to dance til-the-crowds-leave - even just once, one Sunday morning; this set is intended for you. From Miles Dyson's "Intro", then a drum n' bass lead-off in The Prodigy's "Omen"' to heavier-hitting danceable distortions that follows in Chris Lake's "My MTV" (Noir) and U2's "Get on Your Boots" - an aural make-over that only the Crookers, Irish DJs-extraordinaire, can get away with.

Jungle then happens with "Amazzonia" and "Get Wild". Tribal beats. Pagan chanting. Then the feel of ether. Vocal trance kicks in with "Addicted", the only melody track in the set - pure, redeeeming and perfectly detached. More dose of trance follows setting you off somewhere til all you hear are lies when they're saying, "Beautiful People" (or when you begin to marvel at how "Miami to Atlanta" can sound like that?).

When you hear La Roux going "In For The Kill", it's already Sunday morning. This track has vocals so raw, a mix that sounds so filtered, it stirs your focus and brings you back to the emotions you've always known. Back to face the mundane you have to live with. But you were never new to all this. It feels like 1987. Sinead O'Connor's first single, and video, evoked the same strong disdain. "Troy". And fevered rush from getting the prize in the end. "(Phoenix from the Flame)". From the "The Lion... (TO BE CONTINUED)

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