Prodigy and Big Noyd – The Grimy Way (JChan Black Angels Remix)

Flipped another sample from the Kronos Quartet’s version of George Crumb’s ‘Black Angels‘ for this remix.

MF Doom vs Kronos Quartet – Change the Beat (JChan Black Angels Remix)

Max Bill’s production on the original is the illest, and I’ve flipped both of these tracks before but figured they’d match up perfectly – check out the results:

MF Doom meets Radiohead and Another Strung-Out Beat

Damn – they stole my idea – or rather they beat me to the punch. I love the piece “Proven Lands” on Radiohead guitarist Johnny Greenwood’s soundtrack to There Will be Blood – if there were ever a beat to be flipped from music made for a string ensemble, this is it, and I’ve been struggling to find a way to remix it/mash it up. Now, it seems Radiohead and MF Doom (or DOOM, as he now prefers to be called) have done just that with “Retarded Fren“:

Kronos Quartet – Black Angels (JChan Remix)

I couldn’t possibly describe the contents of this disc (although this site does a decent job), except to say that it changed the way I listen to music and George Crumb is probably Satan – and he looks like my old orthodontist.

I made this remix for my old college buddy Jon, who first played this for me when I was an impressionable, angst-ridden freshman at BU. Good times, good times.