Air (Astronote Remix) featuring MF Doom
Dabrye
The Remixes Volume: One, 2009
A-Side Worldwide

Air featuring MF Doom
Dabrye
Two/Three, 2006
Ghostly International

I found this remix on Moovmnt right around the same time I got the original. I actually heard the remix first so I guess I’m not in an impartial position when I say that the remix seems to transcend the original. Or maybe its just that incredibly crisp snap/snare drum combo. It sounds like there are 5 different sounds smashed together on each 2 and 4.

I like the way Astronote handles the spot where the “Woo-Hah” sample is in the original. The dramatic pause and echo make me feel like I missed something really important and I should back.

Apparently Astronote is French. It’s funny, there’s not much to indicate it but the first time I heard the countdown at the beginning of the song (I assume it was sampled from a movie), I noticed that the number “seven” seemed to reveal a much stronger accent than the rest of the numbers; it’s almost “siven.” I couldn’t place the accent but French sounds right (I suppose I should also account for the possibility that if it were from a French movie, the counting would be in…French).

Is “Jabip” regional slang? (“Indeed he ripped scripts from here to Jabip”) I’ve managed to never hear that one before.

I suggest setting the start time of the Astronote Mix to “0:30.35″.

Songs are available for two weeks.

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