Don Quijote X BeatRehab

It’s the holiday season and most of us are back home from work and school, back to our families and old friends, back to that which is so familiar yet now seems vey much alien to us. The food, the routine, the conversations, all a somewhat surreal déjà vu, we are no longer sure if we belong. Anyhow, the holiday season has this magical aura about it where the old and the familiar meet collide with the new and ever changing. We keep coming back home, more changed with every passing year, more different than ever. This very concept is what brings us to today’s post on CasaSwoop: a clash of classic and modern, and get ready because its gonna make you try to moonwalk all over your house. That’s right, no shame, because its MJ baby! Michael Jackson’s melodramatic yet funky hit song ‘Remember The Time’ (yeah that’s the one with the music video where everyone’s like a kinky Egyptian Pharaoh. But if you thought that was hot back in the day, you are in for surprise as soon as you listen to D...

For the last couple of days, I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea behind trends. What exactly are they, and what power do they have over both our quotidian and transcendental experiences. Clearly a hard question to answer in an electronic music website post, but hey, we do after all rely heavily on trends to reach out to people, the sole foundation of this website is dedicated to trends, specifically the remixing trend. So for the music history lesson of the day here’s a little wiki segment about THE REMIX: Modern remixing had its roots in the dance hall culture of late-1960s/early-1970s  Jamaica . The fluid evolution of music that encompassed  ska ,  rocksteady , reggae  and  dub  was embraced by local music mixers who deconstructed and rebuilt  tracks  to suit the tastes of their audience. Producers and engineers like Ruddy Redwood,  King Tubby  and  Lee "Scratch" Perry  popularized stripped-down  instrumental  m...