All Alone (Captain Planet Remix)
Alice Russell
Unreleased (As of Yet), 2009
This is a repost from mixtaperiot.com (a site that should definitely be on your RSS feed reader / weekly rotation). Chuck Wild/Captain Planet posted a bunch of his remixes including this one of Alice Russell’s “All Alone” which I love.
I was pretty underwhelmed by Alice’s most recent album (granted, she set the bar very high for herself). She didn’t really “move in a new direction,” it was produced by TM Juke who has produced most of what she’s done and it sounds similar; it just didn’t hit the same musical peaks as her previous work.
The album version of “All Alone” is fairly emblematic of this. The song doesn’t really seem to start until there are :29 seconds left. The minimal intro is great but the “hits” that come in at :49 are super-tame (1. adj. Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.) and the drums that follow at 1:11 just don’t deliver. Maybe I’m missing the point and this is supposed to be a chiller song than I want it to be but…I keep waiting for it to start.
The drums and tempo of the Captain Planet remix match vocal much better. Alice is running a remix contest on her site and this song is, uh, in the running. You have to create a username to vote (that’s asking a lot, I know) but the upside is that you’ll end up on Alice Russell mailing list and that’s a good thing.
Songs are available for two weeks.
