I’ve just finished listening to Shoot a Hole Into the Sun, the first song which has been released from Noel Gallagher’s upcoming album which is a collaboration between himself and the High Flying Birds (AKA, his backing band) and Amorphous Androgynous (AKA, Future Sound of London). He previously collaborated with them when they did a simply amazing twenty two minute remix of the Oasis track Falling Down (which in itself is only four minutes twenty seconds).
Their upcoming album is set to be a combination of remixes of the High Flying Birds album, as well as some original pieces. However, their remixes are simple bassy pumped up versions of existing tracks, but are incredibly psychedelic things. Amorphous Androgynous’ A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind series of albums were their first attempts at this, with the Falling Down remix being a part of that too. I’d recommend going and listening to them. (Here’s a link to the Falling Down remix.)
Anyway, moving back to Shoot a Hole…, I am seriously in love with the track already. This is a remix of If I Had a Gun… and even though I dearly love the song, they haven’t ruined it or made it horrid, they’ve simply made it their own. I feel part of the reason it hasn’t ruined the original is that they haven’t borrowed a great deal from it except for the lines “If I had a gun/I’d shoot a hole into the sun”. Apart from that they’ve taken the bass chords, the drum beat, a few lines from the chorus and the bridging “aahhh” parts, which in all probably only totals at around 20-30 seconds of the original.
Given the line that the remix is based around, the psychedelic style fits perfectly.
Overall, I think it’s brilliant, but I’m going to make sure I don’t listen to it too much, as I really don’t want to ruin the great feeling of the song.
I’m really sorry, but I won’t be doing an audio post tonight. I had an idea planned and was part way through recording, but now District 9 is on telly. It’s such a good film. I will however re-record the audio post tomorrow and upload two tomorrow.
Right now I’m trying to come up with ideas of stuff to talk about in future audio blogs. I’ve got a few good ones so far. Tuesday’s one should be good if I use one of the ideas then. Apart from that, I’ll say no more.
Audio Blog #86 - Not a Lot Going On
