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Jens Lekman – A Summer in 3/4 Time

I maj förra året släppte Jens Lekman en liten mix kallad ”Summer never ends” och i dag kom det en ny mix. Denna gång heter den ”A Summer in 3/4 Time” och innehåller bland annat en remix gjord av Lekman själv, på Au Revoir Simones låt Shadows plus en hel del andra låtar.

Så här skriver Lekman själv på jenslekman.com:

I got the opportunity to remix my favourite song from Au Revoir Simone’s beautiful album Still Night, Still Light. While listening to the song I realised how nice it’d be to transform their straight 4/4 time synthpop into a whirlwind waltz or maybe a barcarole if you will. It took a long time to chop up all the syllables and the tiny tiny samples, but I think the result got the song into a whole swirling new direction.

While making the remix, my mind started working in 3/4 and 6/8 time. I started looking around for tracks in that time signature to make a mix, I wasn’t intending to but I couldn’t help it. It was all a big swirl. After a while I heard it everywhere. In soul ballads, in polyrhythmical african pop, in old movies. In the ocean waves tumbling in against the shore, in the beat of a lovers heart. One two three, one two three…

Skrivet av Mats och publicerat 7 juli 2010