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Big tune...Big Guest list... Big Remix.

To be honest we were never completely hot on the original but this kills it.

N.A.S.A. - 'Gifted' (Mattb rmx) ft. Kanye West, Lykke Li and Santogold by madeinglitch

Download: N.A.S.A. feat Kanye West, Lykke Li and Santigold - Gifted (Mattb Remix) / alt link

It's interesting that round these parts there only really appears to exist 2 Dubstep producers in the minds of the wider population, Skream and Rusko. Rusko the other night was off the hook as you would expect and all respects due, but not even Benga could pull half the crowd in the same club. However one man is well on his way to the upper echelons of the mainstream Dubstep afficiando's psyche. Doorly has found his way into the fronts of our virtual Saturday night record boxes with his killer remixes of Bonkers, You're Not Alone and Hooligans and now we have yet another big dancefloor Dub to slip into the set as he beefs up the new Mr Hudson and Kanye West track Supernova.

(YSI) Mr Hudson ft Kanye West - Supernova (Doorly Dubstep Remix) / alt link

(Direct Link) N.A.S.A. - Kanye West, Santigold, & Lykke Li - Gifted (Treasure Fingers Epicwave Remix) / alt link

Me and Jay Z haven't always got on. I once declared a drive-time radio show I was co-hosting a Jay Z Free Zone and banned any subsequent airplay from him. Over time I've come to appreciate his marketing genius and the occasional flashes of extremely on point rhyming, even his materialistic arrogance doesn't really bother me that much anymore. One thing that still bugs me however is the fact he still has one of the most annoyingly whiney voices in Hip-hop, something in the tone and pitch that just grates somewhere in my soul. You can imagine him as a kid, like the male version of Veruca Salt. However, something that grates on me even more is the fact that plenty of rappers and Bashment artists over the past few years have felt the need to try and make their voices purposefully and synthetically whiney by using Autotune. No doubt I have already had this rant so won't go over well worn ground but seems that actually in this area both me and Jay Z can agree on matters Autotune is dead.

(YSI) Jay Z - DOA (Death Of Autotune) / alt link

At first I thought this might be a blatant swipe at Kanye West after his last album, especially with lines such as 'you rappers singing too much', but as the track (and infact the whole Blueprint 3 album apparently) has ironically been co-produced by him it seems unlikely (although knowing both artists' courting of controversy not impossible). This isn't the best track in the world ever and won't make us rush out on September 11th (another arrogant but clever move) and buy the album but it's solid Hip-hop and the sentiments are certainly supported here at Chrome Mansions.

I have one big issue with Kanye’s new track ‘Love Lockdown’. It’s not the fact that he’s decided it’s time to croon, it’s the fact that he’s felt it necessary to use a Vocoder to do so. I’m sure he didn’t use one at the MTV awards, so it’s not like he can’t sing the song, so why use this evil machine at all? There are only 2 types of music that can get away with using the Vocoder (Ragga and R’n’B are not them… it hurts me deeply when I hear a fine singer like Yami Bolo using one) – P Funk and Electro. Don’t ask me why these get special privileges, I’m actually not too sure, but somehow they both manage to retain general credibility even when relentlessly electrocuting the voicebox. So it is probably of some small mercy that up out of the Brooklyn Zoo clique jumps Chew Fu with this beautifully bubbling little electro refix… might just have saved it for me.

(YSI)Kanye West – Love Lockdown (Chew Fu Small Room Fix)


And for those of you previously unaware of the Chew Fu goodness, here’s a few gems which he cooked up for the ‘Remix Sunday’ selection over at the Palms Out blog…

(ZShare) Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams(Chew fu fix, feat J-Cast & Substantial)

(ZShare) Chris IsaaK - Wicked games (Chew Fu Refix feat J-Cast & Lee Majors)

(ZShare) Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild (Chew Fu Fix feat A-Clay & Lee Majors)

(ZShare) Chew Fu w/ J-Cast, A-Clay & PVH - Sunglasses At Night