This year’s hype-magnet (deserving of it!) James Blake recently dissed the idea of the remix, calling them “musical prostitution.” Chaz Bundick of Toro Y Moi pretty much agreed. Yet sometimes a rework of a song can be more than just a desperate attempt to latch onto another artist’s good press. Take Hoshina Anniversary remix of…
Hoshina Anniversary’s bumpin’ “Everybody Plays The Music” gets an 8-bit makeover courtesy of 99 Letters and his arsenal of Game Boys. Before you even hit “play” on this retake you can probably guess what’s in store – a plethora of video game noises ranging from blasts of NES Shrapnel to Mario’s coin noise wigging out…
A lot of words get mushed together on Hoshina Anniversary’s new track “Everybody Plays The Music.” Yet it’s the titular phrase that manages to escape unscathed and take center spotlight, emerging from the throbbing electronics to serve as the song’s (intelligible) chorus. The rest of “Everybody Plays The Music” features sliced-up vocals (or French???) that…
Busy start of the week for me so this will be brief…but Hoshina Anniversary has a new track (or at least something I haven’t heard before, covering my bases now) up here. The two-minute version of “Dangerous” hits on the same style Hoshina toyed around with on “Cobra” earlier this year – a rush of…
Hoshina Anniversary returns with a new remix, this one not of the Gaga variety. This time he’s taking on Tsume’s “Autobahn” – listen to the plenty-good original here. He makes “Autobahn” sound a bit more menacing, while retaining the sleek, aerodynamic feel the original mix touched on. Both mixes sound like I imagine the Autobahn,…