Malibu Remix Article From SOnic Net
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Hole Give 'Malibu' Single Dance Remix Treatment
Grunge-glam quartet taps ex-Book Of Love leader to rework radio hit; may be
more dance versions to come.
Senior Writer Gil Kaufman reports:
Hole aren't the first band that jumps to mind when most people think of dance
remixes.
But the grunge-and-glam L.A. quartet has taken the sonic leap and recruited Ted
Ottaviano, the former leader of defunct N.Y. synth-pop band Book Of Love, to
remix their current radio hit "Malibu."
"We just wanted to see if we could tweak the song a bit and come up with some
kind of dance remix," guitarist Eric Erlandson said.
The new "Malibu" (RealAudio excerpt of original version) is the first remix in
what Erlandson said was originally conceived as an album-length series of dance
tracks to accompany the band's latest album, Celebrity Skin. While no other
plans for remixes are scheduled, the band is considering future club versions
from the album's tracks.
"We just wanted to see if we could tweak the song a bit." -- Eric Erlandson,
Hole guitarist
Although the "Malibu" remix -- the first of its kind from Hole as far as
Erlandson could remember -- is not currently scheduled for release, Erlandson
said the band used it as its exit music during a string of January dates in
Australia and New Zealand on the massive Big Day Out Tour.
"The idea was to find a bunch of DJ guys and give each one a song and release
those mixes to clubs," Erlandson said, "just get them in clubs and not release
them. But it didn't happen because [the album's first single] 'Celebrity Skin'
took off so fast and people got sick of it by the time we wanted to start the
remixing stuff."
Looking to give the tunes a more club-oriented feel, Hole turned to Ottaviano,
whose old band, Book Of Love, were best known for such lush, clubby pop tunes
as the 1985 hit "Boy" and "Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls" (RealAudio excerpt)
from their 1988 album Lullaby.
Revealing a previously hidden penchant for dance club culture, Erlandson said
his interest in remixing and club music has been stoked lately by the work of
British big-beat star Fatboy Slim (born Norman Cook).
"I just came from a Fatboy Slim show and there's something cool about a guy up
there with just two turntables making that music," Erlandson said from
Australia last month. "It's not like the Prodigy or Chemical Brothers where you
have these guys up there playing something. It's just this guy with two
turntables and all the kids dancing and going crazy."
At the time, Erlandson said he was a bit afraid to follow in Fatboy Slim's
footsteps when Hole played the same Melbourne club, the Metro, the next night.
"I just thought, 'How do we follow this?' " Erlandson said. "Then this girl
heard me and said it's like apples and oranges. She said the dancing,
celebration crowd is the same one as the kids who will come for the rock thing.
She told me kids are still interested in the rock thing, which is good for us."
Erlandson and the rest of Hole -- singer Courtney Love and bassist Melissa Auf
Der Maur -- will get a first-hand look at how interested those kids are in
their non-dancefloor grooves when they launch a co-headlining tour with
shock-rocker Marilyn Manson on Feb. 28 at Spokane Arena in Spokane, Washington.
The two-month tour, which Auf Der Maur has dubbed the "Beautiful Monsters Tour"
in honor of the groups' clashing glitz-versus-goth images, will be a test of
both groups' audiences, according to the bassist.
"I think it's a perfect complement," Auf Der Maur said of the groups' seemingly
opposing images of goth-turned-glam (Manson) and grunge-turned-glitz (Hole).
"We bring on the light after they've dragged out the dark. It's two different
worlds, so I can't see how one could make the other look bad. Theirs is black
and ours is white."
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