Mashing Up That Hill
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Artist:Placebo vs Pet Shop Boys vs Kate Bush
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Track:Love Comes Running Up That Hill Quickly
Pitting two or more musical elements against one another to make a wholly new thing, mash-ups come in all shapes, sizes and flavors: rap versus rock versus pop versus soul versus reggae versus techno, unto madness. There are rock-on-rock and pop-on-pop numbers with distinctly different tunes from the same genre that nonetheless fit together like side-by-side puzzle pieces. And occasionally someone will scramble together two disparate versions of the same song, such as A plus D’s “Heart of Puppini,” mixing Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” with the Puppini Sisters’ jazzy, scatty interpretation of the new-wave/disco classic.From the foot of the mighty Rockies, Denver, Colorado DJ/producer Magnet has tried the latter approach, and it’s a stirring vertical climb, traversing the recent cover of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” by Placebo – the darkly passionate London rock band (and MOG fave from the Pacifico to the Mediterraneo) – while taking valuable detours to the original recording by British art-rock chanteuse Bush, as well as a side-trip the Pet Shop Boys’ lush techno ballad “Love Comes Quickly.”Magnet dubs it “Love Comes Running Up That Hill Quickly,” and you might enjoy tagging along:
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