Sunday, August 27, 2006

Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous remixes

[Ed. note: This was supposed to have gone up yesterday, but blogger and yousendit prevented that.]



Nelly Furtado, "Promiscuous" (320 for my DJs)

Nelly Furtado, "Promiscuous (Axwell remix)"

Nelly Furtado, "Promiscuous (Morel's Pink Noise Vocal mix)"

It seemed like a good time to take another look at one of the hottest tracks of the summer, Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous." It held up well for me, although I don't listen to the radio much, so it may have long grown old there. Not much more to be said about it, grab it at the highest quality and play it out for a few more months.

The remixes take a similar approach to the Justin Timberlake ones from Friday. They serve more to make the original a little more danceclub friendly, housier so to speak, as opposed to complete reimaginings or darker shit. While it'd be nice to see a little more diversity in the remixers on these CDs, I can't say that I hate these versions. The Axwell remix starts out with just a cymbal beat, slowly adding some clipped vocals and keyboards, a nice teasing beginning. About two minutes it all comes together and the bass and drums take things up a notch. Interestingly, Axwell stops this and let's the Nelly/Timmy raps come in, shortcircuiting the first buildup. After the verses, it builds back up with some synths and cymbals, but it's not as much of a club stormer as I expected.

Morel's Pink Noise Vocal mix is my favorite, a harder edged, more banging version. This song had me with the hard drums right away, plus I like the fact that the beat doesn't drop out during the verses, which are completely intact. This would be my choice for a club version, although any good club should be fine with the original. I have a few more from this CD, let me know if there is any interest.

-I originally had mentioned the Danger! Danger! house party/rock festival. I hope that some Philly people made it out to the westside last night for this one, as it had to be a great time. I spent my night around Rittenhouse Square for the first time in ages; it's unbelievable how many people are out in that neighborhood, I really feel like things are gonna start popping up in new areas to . Thanks ED, DM, AZ, A + P for letting me tag along and not feel like a douche for not drinking. I even went to a Wharton party and nobody asked me to park their car or wondered how a hippie got in!

-Happy birthday to RV, who has crossed the quarter century mark. I hope that it was a boss(y) night, wish I could've been there to celebrate.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

haha this tune is a guilty pleasure of mine. i love it. who else did they get on the remix case?

Anonymous said...

another quality post man!!! love the new remixes (besides axwell) really really enjoying them!! on top form hehe yay :]

Anonymous said...

HEY i'm a dj and have a major gig tonight, if you could help me out and repost or send me the nelly furtado and justin timberlake remixes that would be really awesome.thanx dude

Jack said...

Thanks for all the comments guys, really appreciate people checking in.

I hope that everyone checks back in today, as I'm gonna reupload these and the Justin Timberlake jawns in the next few hours. Get 'em while they're hot.

Anonymous said...

Thanx man much appreciated. you're blog is awesome

Jack said...

Thanks Joco. Holler at one of me on email or myspace, glad to let people know about future gigs or whatever.

The Promiscuous and Sexyback remixes are re-uploaded, get 'em while the gettin's good.

Big surprise coming with the next post.

Hint: No more reuploads.

K said...

Yo Jack. You have any remixes of the track "Do It"? Loving that song more than any other on Nelly's album.

Anonymous said...

The links are not working anymore, can you please upload them again. Thanks mate!

Anonymous said...

can you please repost the axwell promiscuous track. cheers

Editor said...

Nelly just plain rocks!

BTW, I just found a neat Nelly site with all her story detailed. Lots of interesting and

unrevealed things in there.

www.nellyfurtado.official.ws