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Showing posts with label the shoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the shoes. Show all posts

Thursday 13 October 2022

Clichè

This popped up the other day, while I was scrolling/ searching for something else, a download only Andrew Weatherall remix from 2011. Weatherall employs that glam stomp he was fond of round that time (see also his remix of C.A.R. and Trentemoller among others), some distorted sci fi sounds beamed in from left and right and a wordless vocal part taken from the original track, all rhythmic and gutteral oohs  and ah ah ahs. 

The source material is Cliché by French outfit The Shoes with Cock 'n' Bull Kid along for the ride on this outing (Cock 'n' Bull Kid is/was Anita Blay who had two albums out 2010 and 2011 but according to Discogs nothing since). The Shoes are/ were Benjamin Labeau and Guillaume Briere (coincidentally that's the second Guillaume at this blog in two days, it's almost a Guillaume theme week). The Shoes seem to have called it a day in 2015. This remix is pretty infectious, a bit of an earworm, and fits nicely with the glam/ rockabilly sound he was playing at the end of the decade which mutated into ALFOS and The Asphodells. 

Cliché (Andrew Weatherall remix)

I've never heard the original of Shoes  until just now despite owning the Weatherall remix for over a decade. The glam stomp is there, Weatherall looped it and pushed it further up front, and the vocal parts belong to Cock 'n' Bull Kid but pitched shifted downwards for the remix. A good piece of turn of the 00s dance pop.



Tuesday 21 June 2011

Le Weatherall Remix


June seems to be turning into a Bagging Area Weatherall fest, so I thought I'd chuck this one in. Released as a freebie a few months back through Rcrdlbl, (it doesn't seem to have had any proper physical release) this is Andrew Weatherall's remix of Cliche by The Shoes. The Shoes are a French outfit about whom I know rien. It also features Cock 'n' Bull Kid, who I have heard of. This is a scorcher, with a great big kettle drum stomp, deep backing vox and the dub basslines he's been sticking all over recent remixes. This one is more of a close cousin of the glam rock Trentmoller remix. Vive le Weatherall remix.