{"id":1143,"date":"2009-03-06T23:42:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T22:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2009-03-06T23:42:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T22:42:50","slug":"john-jehn-looking-for-you-mighty-mouse-nyc-sensations-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"john &amp; jehn &#8211; looking for you (mighty mouse nyc sensations mix)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/john_and_jehn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"203\" alt=\"john_and_jehn\" src=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/john_and_jehn_thumb.jpg\" width=\"203\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>following the epic 18 minute timo mass remix yesterday, here&#8217;s another treat for you.<\/p>\n<p>being honest i was not impressed by the debut album by these guys, despite all the love from the serious press it just didn&#8217;t work for me.<\/p>\n<p>then today i received a copy of the new single, <font color=\"#008080\">oh my love<\/font>. and lo&#8217; it&#8217;s excellent.<\/p>\n<p>yes, it may be in the same corner as <strong>the kills<\/strong>, and the mighty <strong>flykkiller<\/strong> ie. muso bloke on guitar\/machines with sex kitten doing her vamp thing around the mike, but fuck it, it&#8217;s a cliche well worth exploiting when the results are as darkly delicious as this.<\/p>\n<p>the lead track is all moody and reverb heavy in their noir goth tinged new wave rock, with sneering vocals that instigate grey cell connections to <strong>siouxsie sous<\/strong> thus elevating the track to unexpected levels of drama .<\/p>\n<p>let this play out, and watch the cats whiskers curl back.<\/p>\n<p>then there is the old fashioned b-side, <font color=\"#008080\">lookin&#8217; for you<\/font>,&#160; drum machine loops, compelling dance floor bass lines that peter hook would kill for in &#8217;09, and vocal hooks that simultaneously hurt and soothe.<\/p>\n<p>quite simply i&#8217;m smitten.<\/p>\n<p>so where&#8217;s the treat as promised earlier ?<\/p>\n<p>well, as is the way in these twittered up times, there is a remix, the &quot;mighty mouse nyc sensations mix&quot;, doing the rounds.<\/p>\n<p>taking the stripped back claustrophobic moods of the b-side, and strapping a italo disco friendly <strong>donna summer\/moroder<\/strong> synth line to the tracks core. <\/p>\n<p>such genetic engineering transforms the original into something that could easily soundtrack any disco scene should&#160; they ever make the film &quot;studio 54 : the blade years&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>fantastic stuff indeed.<\/p>\n<p><u>mp3<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?5nmny0y1gnt\">john &amp; jehn &#8211; looking for you (mighty mouse nyc sensations mix)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeyourmumbeproud.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>following the epic 18 minute timo mass remix yesterday, here&#8217;s another treat for you. being honest i was not impressed by the debut album by these guys, despite all the love from the serious press it just didn&#8217;t work for me. then today i received a copy of the new single, oh my love. and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mp3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}