The xx have taken over the world recently and thats a real good thing for a band like them. Its not very often a band puts together an album as seamless as it is, a pure body of work, solely made by themselves and totally for themselves. The world deserves to hear what they have created and they deserve to show us.
To celebrate this, listen to these remixes/tunes that have that same emotion embedded into each bar, wait for the hairs on the back of your neck to stand up.......
The following track is a solo track from beat maker Jamie xx, entitled Far Nearer, its being released on Numbers Records soon. Sounds a bit like if Burial were a steal band....enjoy....
Jamie xx- Far Nearer
This next track is a mindblowingly good Four Tet remix of The xx- VCR. Starting out with the classic Four Tet shuffling drum rhythms with Romy and Oliver's soft ghostly vocals overlayed. Then at 2.57 a slightly speedier VCR melody kicks in and your ears prick up as it starts rolling from this point, gently growing and swirling you into dreamland. Amazing track....
The xx- VCR (Four Tet Remix)
Up next is a remix of a remix of a cover (complicated? its not). The xx remix of Florence's cover of The Source and Candi Staton's '86 disco track gets remixed by The Very Best. It has been done amazingly well keeping the xx version fully alive but adding vocal harmonies, and tropical percussion. All together very tasty....
Florance and the Machine- You Got The Love (xx remix) (The Very Best Version)
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