And Not Just Because I Heart Erlend Øye

Erlend taking a well earned break from being ace

Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix) (MP3)

Ohmygodohmygodohmygod… this is sooooooo good!

Rubicon co-making Frenchman Fred Falke remixes one of the best bits from the yet another can-this-man-do-no-wrong Erlend Øye project that is Whitest Boy Alive and IT’S EVEN BETTER THAN IN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS (I’m not sure that even putting it in capitals makes the point anywhere near as clearly as I’d like but check out the simply dreamy call-and-response between Erlend and his distorted vocoder counterpart; “there’s sadness written on every corner”).

I nearly passed on buying this earlier this week and I don’t think I could accurately put into words how truly glad I am that I didn’t (and that I’m now able to play it ad nauseam) and, I don’t know about you, but every once-in-a-while it’s nice to be reminded that “house” doesn’t have to be a dirty word.

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COMMENTS / 4 COMMENTS

DUDE! I’ve been hearting this remix for a few weeks already, but just wanted to let you know I share your excitement over it. IT MAKES ME FEEL LIKE I NEED TO TYPE IN CAPS TO EMPHASIZE ITS AWESOMENESS TOO!

Seriously though, the track is boss, and Whitest Boy Alive too. Erlend’s got the magic touch. Good call!

showtrotta added these pithy words on Apr 05 08 at 11:24 pm

Yo OYE-completist

Here is that video I was going on about.

Prepare to die of extreme awesomeness overload.

Ash added these pithy words on Apr 16 08 at 3:30 pm

In your eagerness Ashley, you failed to notice I’d already linked t the video in the post! (Click on the word Rubicon).

Rather disappointingly whilst getting some links for this post I found a more complete list than the one on Discogs of things Mr Øye has worked on so I now have to start scouring the seven levels of hell (or eBay, Gemm, Discogs, CDandLP, but more on that in my next post) for more dodgy house music.

Damn my accursed obsession!

Chris added these pithy words on Apr 16 08 at 4:08 pm

It’s one of the greatest tracks, I heard this year !!! Thank you so much & greetz from Germany …

busch-Man added these pithy words on Apr 23 08 at 6:53 am

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