{"id":900,"date":"2008-04-16T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2008-04-16T19:00:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T18:00:06","slug":"crustation-purple-la-femme-d-argent-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"crustation &#8211; purple (la femme d argent mix)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">given that <STRONG>air<\/STRONG> are about to  release&nbsp;an expanded&nbsp;10th anniversary edition of their debut, <U>moon  safari<\/U>,&nbsp; (and for the complete story on that particular package thats  well worthy of your pocket money if you&#8217;re a fan of th band, head over to the  official site : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.pocket-symphony.com\/\">here<\/A>), i thought  i&#8217;d dig out a little known remix they did back on 1997, under a not so difficult  pseudo.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">of course, back in the day, the music world was  awash with downtempo pop acts all doing the smooth vocals over gentle hip hop  based beats, and i&#8217;d be a liar if i didn&#8217;t admit that i was a sucker for a fair  old chunk of it (hello <STRONG>mono<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>lamb<\/STRONG>,  <STRONG>rare<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>baby fox<\/STRONG> etc etc).<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">one of the bands that were lumped in with this  genre was <STRONG>crustation<\/STRONG>.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">at the time, the late night moods and sultry vocals  really hit my playlist hard, and so waited for the band to take over the  world.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">in hindsight, the band were one of many, and so  proved to be nothing special, despite the fact that the album is a pleasant  listen.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">anyways, for their <FONT color=\"#008080\">purple  ep<\/FONT>, they managed to draft in quite a few well known people to play around  with their late night moods, <STRONG>mr scruff<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>a tribe called  quest<\/STRONG>, and the best of a ragged bunch of lazy beats and ambience,  future cool french pop heros, <STRONG>air<\/STRONG>.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the changed musical backing  is&nbsp;very&nbsp;typical of early <STRONG>air<\/STRONG> productions and somewhat  more enjoyable than the original, rich and detailed electronica, with a  synthetic warmth often missing in the genre. a definite indicator to the  excellnce that was on its way.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><U>mp3<\/U> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/music\/purple_air_remix.mp3\">crustation  purple (la femme d&#8217;argent mix)<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>given that air are about to release&nbsp;an expanded&nbsp;10th anniversary edition of their debut, moon safari,&nbsp; (and for the complete story on that particular package thats well worthy of your pocket money if you&#8217;re a fan of th band, head over to the official site : here), i thought i&#8217;d dig out a little known remix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","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\/900","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}