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Thread started 04/07/09 11:51pm

datdude

Electric Chair remix?

Does anyone know if there is a remix to Electric Chair WITH vocals? i recently heard an extended funky INSTRUMENTAL so i was wondering if one with vocals existed too.
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Reply #1 posted 04/07/09 11:54pm

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Oh yeah, there was a UK remix single that had Electric Chair and The Future.

Well worth looking for!
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Reply #2 posted 04/07/09 11:54pm

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Reply #3 posted 04/08/09 12:06am

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Those William Orbit remixes of Electric Chair and The Future are superb!

Another source: http://www.mattscdsingles...e_361.html


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“The Future”

"The Future" is a song from Prince's 1989 Batman soundtrack, and the final single released from the album. The single was not the album version, but rather a remixed version by William Orbit. "The Future" was released as a single only in Europe. The standard European 7" single was backed with the album version of "Electric Chair", but on the maxi-single, "Electric Chair" was also remixed by Orbit. Both 12-inch remixes add little to the original versions heard on Prince's Batman release. Orbit's remix of "The Future" is House-inspired, whereas Prince's original is minimalistic and foreboding. Orbit substituted a muted, pulsating beat in place of the original elements of Prince's song. Orbit also removed Prince's original bassline, synthline, and snippets of sampled dialogue. Neither "The Future" nor its B-Side were a hit on the pop or dance floors. Orbit's remixes were not well-received and therefore charted in only one country. As a result, this would be the last time Orbit would work with Prince for several years.
"Electric Chair", was recorded well before the album concept had begun, being cut in June 1988. Despite this, it fits well into the theme of the movie, and evokes the Joker's madness. The track blends hard rock and funk with a loud, booming drum machine pattern, and aggressive bass and lead guitar wailing throughout. The bridge combines a funky, percussive bass line with a meshed guitar synth phrase.
The LP version of "The Future" features the sampled strings of Clare Fischer lifted from the then unreleased 1986 track "Crystal Ball," and samples of the Sounds of Blackness choir. The song is rather menacing, evoking the theme of the film. The lyrics speak of a bleak future, recalling Gotham City, and that it needs "spirituality that will last."
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Reply #4 posted 04/08/09 2:09am

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Nikademus said:

Oh yeah, there was a UK remix single that had Electric Chair and The Future.

Well worth looking for!


Both remixes are great. Highly recommended.
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Reply #5 posted 04/08/09 3:37am

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Never cared too much for the future remix. However, 'Electric Chair' is fabulous. Is it just me or does this remix sound like the theme tune to miami vice?
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Reply #6 posted 04/08/09 8:08am

datdude

i forgot i had The Future maxi single remix with the Electric chair remix on it. pulled it out today and enjoyed them both. i'm not sure what instrumental remix of EC i have then, but its ext'd and way funkier and its the one i'd love to hear the vocals on
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Reply #7 posted 04/08/09 8:35am

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I had no idea there was an instrumental, I assume it's a bootleg??

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Reply #8 posted 04/08/09 8:47am

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djdaffy1227 said:

I had no idea there was an instrumental, I assume it's a bootleg??



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Reply #9 posted 04/08/09 8:49am

Genesia

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tc012009 said:

Nikademus said:

Oh yeah, there was a UK remix single that had Electric Chair and The Future.

Well worth looking for!


Both remixes are great. Highly recommended.


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Reply #10 posted 04/08/09 12:35pm

lwr001

I was in the Navy at the time and got that cd at a shop in Cannes< France during a port call
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Reply #11 posted 04/08/09 3:33pm

PEJ

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electric chair and the future remixes are both awesome!
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Reply #12 posted 04/09/09 5:27pm

PEJ

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so 90's techno mixish
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