SLAG PATROL

Paul Oakenfold feat. Pharrell Williams – Sex N Money (Club Mix)

This starts off sounding like another Knight Rider rip off, but does build into something better. The synth-string sample is great. It’s very much the commercial trance-pop that Oakenfold does now–he used to be a quality DJ (anyone remember Tranceport?)–but Pharrell’s vocal is good and it’s catchy enough.

three fantastic remixes–

Madonna – Jump (Jacques Lu Cont Mix)
Sugababes – Push the Button (DJ Prom Mix)

Both of these are about 8 minutes long–normally I like shorter mixes and radio edits that get right to the point, I guess I get bored during repetitive longer mixes, but these two remixes are very good. Very lush, great builds and crashes, evocative. I wasn’t very impressed with Stuart Price’s recent remix of The Killers’ When You Were Young, but that song wasn’t that great to begin with. This rework of Jump is much better. And the Sugababes track is off their Overloaded remix album–it’s quite good.

Paris Hilton – Nothing in this World (Kaskade Radio Remix)

Like everyone else, I really should hate Paris Hilton. But Nothing in the World as it’s originally mixed is incredibly catchy. And this remix changes it entirely, makes it almost angry, much like perhaps my favorite song of 2004, the Above and Beyond remix of Britney Spears’ Everytime.

Justin Timberlake – What Goes Around … Comes Back Around

FutureSex/LoveSounds’s Cry Me a River. And the Comes Back Around interlude is quite good too.

These are the songs that made it before, in the ‘06 version:

7/30 chicane feat. tom jones – stoned in love
7/26 bob sinclar feat. steve edwards – world hold on
7/23 pink – who knew (bimbo jones radio edit)
7/19 dj earworm – since u been gone (kelly clarkson vs depeche mode)
7/16 all american rejects – move along
7/12 fort minor feat. styles of beyond – believe me
7/9 mousse t vs the dandy warhols – horny as a dandy
7/5 muse – starlight
7/2 late night alumni – empty streets
6/28 jonny cash – i won’t back down
6/25 dilated peoples feat. kanye west – this way
6/21 rihanna – unfaithful
6/18 nelly furtado – all good things (come to an end)
6/14 nelly furtado – crazy
6/11 the modern – sometimes
6/7 muse – supermassive black hole
6/4 nelly furtado – maneater
5/31 alphaville – forever young (hamel album mix)
5/28 bodies without organs – will my arms be strong enough
5/24 the presets – girl and the sea
5/21 girls aloud – biology (tony lamezma mix)
5/17 string quartet tribute to garbage – when i grow up
5/14 pet shop boys – integral