Friday, 15 July 2011

Spiller - Cry Baby (Röyksopp's Malselves Memorabilia Mix) (2001)

Cristiano Spiller is an Italian DJ and had a no.1 hit in the UK, Italy, Australia and other countries with the hit single, Groovejet (If This Ain't Love), featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor, released in 2000. Groovejet sold over 2 milion copies and was the first song to be played on an iPod according to technology journalist Steven Levy and sold over 2,000,000 copies worldwide.
In 2002, he released Cry Baby in the UK; while the original isn't a particularly memorable song (in my opinion), Röyksopp's remix of it most definitely is. Not so much a remix, more a complete reconstruction that owes little, if anything to the original.
Röyksopp, for the uninitiated, is an electronic music duo from Tromsø, Norway, formed in 1998. Since their inception, the band's line-up has included Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland.
From a young age, the two experimented with various forms of electronica music during the Tromsø techno scene before going their separate ways. Several years later, the two met up again and formed Röyksopp during the Bergen Wave. After experimenting with different genres of electronic music, the band solidified their place in the electronica scene with their brilliant debut album, Melody A.M.
Anyway, the sum result is a song that once heard, is never forgotten.








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