Neil Mach is based in the UK, working as an Independent Music Journalist. As an author and journalist his musical interests range across several areas, but he specialises in live music reviews for all kinds of music. Neil especially loves heavy metal, sleaze rock, glam, punk and ska, heavy blues and RnB.
Saturday, 28 April 2012
Lana Del Rey 'Blue Jeans' with Azalia Banks
Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans ft. Azealia Banks (Smims & Belle Extended Remix)
“I’m a gangsta - gangsta - gangsta.” She trills. And because Lana describes herself as a kinda “gangsta Nancy Sinatra” we feel we have been waiting long-time for this kind of take on her sound.
So finally this Smims & Belle track (the DJ group from Mark Foster and band member Isom Innis) pushes out the tea trolley for the gangster-version of the vision. Sure, you cannot picture Lana schlepping around a palace trouncing it up with tiggazz, or swimmin’ with gators for this one. No, she will probably need to hide her lips beneath a deep hood and dive crazily around a concrete car park.
Azalia and her puppet-bounce rubbery beat bops are unmistakable. Bringing a grin to your impertinent rosies, and a broad outing for your edwards.
This will - in part - pulverize your neck muscles and maim the mucus. Cleverly lopped off bits of Azalia’s back padding (recorded specifically for this remix) materialize and intrude, like visions of other-worldliness, sticking into Lana’s graceful celluloid sixties pastiche of sounds.
Vibrant and illuminating at the same time, this is a fanciful mix that becomes beyond desirable the more you play it.
-- © Neil_Mach April 2012 --
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