MGMT, “Kids,” DJ Koolaid Mo Dance Remix (Unreleased)
I don’t particularly care for east coast group MGMT. I don’t like them enough that, after acquiring its track “Time to Pretend” as a free itunes download, I deleted it while at the same time keeping Sean Kingston’s freebie single “I’m 18″ (an ode to rocking the vote and being 18 (hint: ‘he loves it, he likes it,’ over and over and over again)). Anyway, a visit to DJ Koolaid’s page started the tides a-turning, because I really dig his danced-up version of MGMT’s “Kids.” I may never forgive the pair and their yuppies-in-training buddies for the awful music video for “Time to Pretend,” but I may give MGMT another chance on my stereo…if only in the form of Koolaid remixes. I asked Koolaid to fill us in on how this particular remix came about, what he uses and how he approaches mixes in general:
This song only took a few days to create, since it is fairly simple. I used Reason 3.0. I chose the song because I loved the original sooo much! I just wanted to change it enough to dance to… a little faster, and MO BASS! All of the songs that I remix are songs that I personally love! I cannot remix, or work on a song that I don’t absolutely love, because you have to listen to it a billion times before its done. Some songs that I hear I just automatically know that I am going to remix it, if its good enough. As of lately I have abandoned Reason 3.0 for Ableton’s Live 7. It is much better at what I need it for. I used Live to make my UVS, and Dead Prez remixes.
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Koolaid next spins at tomorrow night’s all-ages dance party FNDNCPRTY at Exit Only. More on that to come tomorrow, so stayed tuned…
Links:
DJ KoolaidSpace
DJKoolaid.com – live streaming MP3s and mixtape downloads
Photo care of KoolaidSpace
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KOOLAID!
says:Thanks for the great write-up Nilina! I am more than flattered
MGMT will have to step it up I geuss!
PS~ Keep an eye out for a debut KOOLAID album to drop very soon!
Posted @ July 14th, 2008 at 2:34 pm (July 10th, 2008) | Flag this Comment | permalinksayer
says:hmmmm…..
Posted @ July 15th, 2008 at 12:13 am (July 10th, 2008) | Flag this Comment | permalinkadium
says:check this remix of kids. erol alkan dropped it at T in the Park. he was on at the same time as MGMT so ended up seeing him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIAOP-jDJwc
Posted @ July 18th, 2008 at 2:23 am (July 10th, 2008) | Flag this Comment | permalinkBest of the Bulletins: Panther Join Ratatat Tour, Newspapers Break Up, White Fang Yard Sale, DJ Koolaid in Remix Contest-- local Cut
says:[...] Links: DJ KoolaidSpace Last.fm Contest Page Cut of the Day: DJ Koolaid Remix of MGMT “Kids” [...]
Posted @ August 22nd, 2008 at 9:14 am (July 10th, 2008) | Flag this Comment | permalinkDJ google
says:Thanks for the mix.
J.
Posted @ January 11th, 2009 at 4:47 pm (July 10th, 2008) | Flag this Comment | permalinkLevanUBC
says:Check this Blue Scholars Kids remix.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtkoFvkIKfg
They did it in PDX a couple weeks back- something more than just adding nanoloop drums.
Posted @ January 12th, 2009 at 8:38 pm (July 10th, 2008) | Flag this Comment | permalink