TOP TEN 2013

The final truth for the 3rd Eye Kid blog(s) in 2013: This list presents the most viewed, most liked, most shared and most loved music of my blog(s) on wordpress and tumblr. Thanks for taking notice in 2013. Hopefully you found some of this stuff as amazing as myself. And I really hope to see you again in 2014. This will be another good year for music and their reconstructed childs. Promise!

The 3rd Eye Kid Top Ten of 2013 in alphabetical order:

• Aretha Franklin: Walk On By [Milfa7 Remix]
• Betty Davis: You Won’t See Me In The Morning [Jack Frost Edit]
• Janelle Monae feat. Stichiz & Erykah Badu: Q.U.E.E.N. [Stichmix]
• Lipps Inc: Funkytown [Boom Le Choc Edit]
• Michael Jackson: Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough [City Elegance Re-Edit]
• Prince: 4ever In My Life [DJ Design Remix]
• Radiohead: Karma Police [Alpha Data Remix]
• Serena Ryder: Stompa [NOG Bootleg Remix]
• Sly & The Family Stone: I Ain’t Got Nobody [Jack Frost Edit]
• Tristan Dee: Safe From Stratus [Massive Attack vs Billy Cobham]

ARETHA FRANKLIN: BABY I LOVE YOU [SAMMY SENIOR REMIX]

“Baby I Love You”, originally released in 1967, was a huge hit for r’n’b singer Aretha Franklin.
Ghetto funk producer Sammy Senior added to the original some up-to-date street credibility: an irresistible driving groove and catchy but unpathetic effects.
This is uplifting music!

ARETHA FRANKLIN: WALK ON BY [MILFA7 REMIX]

“Walk On By” by Aretha Franklin is a cover of Dionne Warwick‘s “Walk On By”.
Larry Graham mentioned this song in an interview for Bass Musician: “I grew up at a time when if an artist covered somebody’s tune, that was really paying them one of the highest compliments. You know, if somebody came out with a song and you did a cover of it, like Aretha Franklin did with Dionne Warwick’s songs, […] she was really paying [her] a high compliment.”
French producer Milfa7 [pronounce “mille facettes” in french, means “thousand facets” in another language] is presenting this song by Aretha Franklin in an adorable way again. Some more accents on the beats, few catchy supportive scratches here and there, a bit of delay when it makes sense. This is another very good example that remixing doesn’t mean automatically destroying a song or creating a caricature out of the template.
Simply wonderful!