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Welcome to SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies:
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
Let's kick off the new year with an EBM gift we were given just before this past X-mas! This one was shared with me by one of my DJ peers, Sawtooth, who I then rewarded with the kind of trickery that ended his game of Whamageddon! (Best just not to play...◔‿◔) Nevertheless this industrial new beat tribute is sure to trigger various levels of near-nineties nostalgia!:
Klack - Pump Up The Jam (Technotronic)
Pump Up The Jam was the debut single released in September 1989 by Technotronic, a Belgian new beat/Eurodance project formed by producer Jo Bogaert. Bogaert actually released it as an instrumental titled Technotronic earlier that year under the pseudonym "The Pro 24's." It was said to be inspired by Farley "Jackmaster" Funk's 1988 The Acid Life, though to hear them both, Bogaert's track seems barely one evolutionary step removed from Funk's. Technotronic's primary difference was the occasional samples gleaned from Eddie Murphy's 1983 Delirious. Bogaert re-titled the track Pump Up The Jam, did away with the samples, brought in Manuella "Ya Kid K" Komosi as a vocalist for some rather simplistic lyrics, and adopted the name "Technotronic" for the project. Ya Kid K, who had what she referred to as a "tomboy" style of dress, was neither featured on the album cover nor in the video for the song, replaced by a fashion model named Nelly who lip-synced for the clip, much in the same way C&C Music Factory later excluded their singer from their debut video for prejudicial marketing concerns prevalent at the time. Because of this, it wasn't until Technotronic's performance on Saturday Night Live in February 1990 that Ya Kid K finally received recognition by a wide audience as the track's vocalist.
There are over a dozen covers and a few parodies of Pump Up The Jam. Though few are notable for any reason, one I feel should get an honorary mention for its sheer doomy minimal strangeness was done by Silvia Kastel.
However, it is to Klack we owe this extraordinary kick off to 2018.
Klack is a new EBM collaboration from Matt Fanale (of Caustic) and Eric Oehler (of Null Device) Just four days before X-mas they unleashed their cover of PUTJ as a PWYW track on Bandcamp. In a recent interview they described their sound as "a throwback to the EBM and New Beat sounds of the late 80's."
Oehler continued, "We really wanted to evoke the styles of 242, A Split Second, Confetti's, Nitzer Ebb, etc, albeit without just directly ripping them off." Fanale followed the sentiment, saying their "biggest 'problem' has been reeling in our influences. I’ve deliberately had to try to develop a vocal style that won’t scream 'Hey, you listen to old Nitzer Ebb a lot.'"
In that effort they may have failed, but not in a way anyone would regret, because this track seems absolutely designed to make you "join in the chant!" Additionally they include samples from both Pump Up The Volume by M.A.R.R.S. and What Time Is Love? by The KLF. Fanale's vocals are much more sinister than Ya Kid K's (as is the overall atmosphere of the track) and he adds some German lyrics as well.
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Second Sunday Slowly brings us another recent cover brought to my attention by yet another of my DJ peers... a witch-wave remake of a dark trip-hop gem sure to lay one's heart so bare.
Feel free to tell me what you think about today's cover! Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
(You do NOT need a Dreamwidth account to comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.)
I'm spinning three Friday nights in a row this January, ranging in style and throughout New England. As always, my schedule has the details and you're welcome to join if you like and can! ಠ‿↼
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Dec 31 - Electric Riot - Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
Dec 24 - Misters of Circe - Clanging Chimes of Doom (originally Do The Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid)
Dec 17 - Armageddon Dildos - Everyday Is Like Sunday (Morrissey)
Dec 10 - Noir - The Chauffeur (Duran Duran)
Dec 03 - Obscenity Trial - Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
Let's kick off the new year with an EBM gift we were given just before this past X-mas! This one was shared with me by one of my DJ peers, Sawtooth, who I then rewarded with the kind of trickery that ended his game of Whamageddon! (Best just not to play...◔‿◔) Nevertheless this industrial new beat tribute is sure to trigger various levels of near-nineties nostalgia!:
Klack - Pump Up The Jam (Technotronic)
Pump Up The Jam was the debut single released in September 1989 by Technotronic, a Belgian new beat/Eurodance project formed by producer Jo Bogaert. Bogaert actually released it as an instrumental titled Technotronic earlier that year under the pseudonym "The Pro 24's." It was said to be inspired by Farley "Jackmaster" Funk's 1988 The Acid Life, though to hear them both, Bogaert's track seems barely one evolutionary step removed from Funk's. Technotronic's primary difference was the occasional samples gleaned from Eddie Murphy's 1983 Delirious. Bogaert re-titled the track Pump Up The Jam, did away with the samples, brought in Manuella "Ya Kid K" Komosi as a vocalist for some rather simplistic lyrics, and adopted the name "Technotronic" for the project. Ya Kid K, who had what she referred to as a "tomboy" style of dress, was neither featured on the album cover nor in the video for the song, replaced by a fashion model named Nelly who lip-synced for the clip, much in the same way C&C Music Factory later excluded their singer from their debut video for prejudicial marketing concerns prevalent at the time. Because of this, it wasn't until Technotronic's performance on Saturday Night Live in February 1990 that Ya Kid K finally received recognition by a wide audience as the track's vocalist.
There are over a dozen covers and a few parodies of Pump Up The Jam. Though few are notable for any reason, one I feel should get an honorary mention for its sheer doomy minimal strangeness was done by Silvia Kastel.
However, it is to Klack we owe this extraordinary kick off to 2018.
Klack is a new EBM collaboration from Matt Fanale (of Caustic) and Eric Oehler (of Null Device) Just four days before X-mas they unleashed their cover of PUTJ as a PWYW track on Bandcamp. In a recent interview they described their sound as "a throwback to the EBM and New Beat sounds of the late 80's."
Oehler continued, "We really wanted to evoke the styles of 242, A Split Second, Confetti's, Nitzer Ebb, etc, albeit without just directly ripping them off." Fanale followed the sentiment, saying their "biggest 'problem' has been reeling in our influences. I’ve deliberately had to try to develop a vocal style that won’t scream 'Hey, you listen to old Nitzer Ebb a lot.'"
In that effort they may have failed, but not in a way anyone would regret, because this track seems absolutely designed to make you "join in the chant!" Additionally they include samples from both Pump Up The Volume by M.A.R.R.S. and What Time Is Love? by The KLF. Fanale's vocals are much more sinister than Ya Kid K's (as is the overall atmosphere of the track) and he adds some German lyrics as well.
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Second Sunday Slowly brings us another recent cover brought to my attention by yet another of my DJ peers... a witch-wave remake of a dark trip-hop gem sure to lay one's heart so bare.
Feel free to tell me what you think about today's cover! Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
(You do NOT need a Dreamwidth account to comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.)
I'm spinning three Friday nights in a row this January, ranging in style and throughout New England. As always, my schedule has the details and you're welcome to join if you like and can! ಠ‿↼
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Dec 31 - Electric Riot - Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
Dec 24 - Misters of Circe - Clanging Chimes of Doom (originally Do The Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid)
Dec 17 - Armageddon Dildos - Everyday Is Like Sunday (Morrissey)
Dec 10 - Noir - The Chauffeur (Duran Duran)
Dec 03 - Obscenity Trial - Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies