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Weekly mp3 #25: Schneider TM featuring Kpt Michigan - The Light 3000

Can't believe I haven't lined this one up before now, it's one I've definitely pestered people about in real life on many occasions... Schneider TM makes the tune available on a pop up page on his own site.

More than a couple of years old now, this is a cover of The Smiths' 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out', done up as melancholy electronica. Vocoders, synthetic beats, surges of cracking distortion and heaps of editing. Seems like a fairly unlikely approach, but it's wonderful.

I'm assuming Erlend Øye's cover of the same song on his DJ Kicks album is inspired by this one, as he was working with Schneider TM around the same time.

Unusually, the "featuring" credit here is not the singer, kptmichigan being a producer of fairly abrasive, instrumental electronic music. I guess the distortion and some of the vocal processing were his ideas. I don't know whether it's the collaboration or the original composition that lifts the quality of 'The Light 3000', but I certainly think it's better than either of the artists' usual output.

Labels: music, weekly mp3

Posted at 1:10 PM