Reply With QuoteBy "flowery vocals" do you mean the part that starts off with "Smoke scented breeze fills the trees and you drift away..."? That's the only part of the song that I like...
Advance Promo Copy [Level 3]
I love the track up to the point where the flowery vocals come in. It's just too entirely different a feel from the rest of the dark and it just goes so utterly cheesy. So I just edited the track down from 16 min to 10 straight minutes of glorious trance and took out those flowery bits.
Am I going to hell or do others feel the same about this track? :-? :roll:
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
By "flowery vocals" do you mean the part that starts off with "Smoke scented breeze fills the trees and you drift away..."? That's the only part of the song that I like...
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
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Do you mean you dropped out the Teri Desario /Bee Geeish guitar chugs at the end ! :(
Hmmm I don't know............ might have to hear this piece of savage butchery before it can be sanctioned ..... ...... :roll: :P :lol:
Can you provide us a listen to your results ?
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Indie Release [Level 4]
Patrick Cowley did the same thing to Hills of Katmandu. I hated it.
Art
Advance Promo Copy [Level 3]
yep, that's them.... :lol:Originally Written by Graham_Start
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
Oh dear. I second Art's comment. I was sooo disappointed when I finally heard the Cowley remix of this track. All he did was cut out the best part, and through the rest through a flanger. Weeeeaaak.
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Disco Dave! Repent! Don't let Satan get control of you! Seek the way of the light, not da Dčeeeevil! :lol:
Editers go straight to Xenon, ehm hellfire!!! :o
I would have to hear your version of course but since "Hills Of Katmandu" is one of my faves, I'm already nervous!!!! :lol:
Advance Promo Copy [Level 3]
Well it goes for 6 minutes of the dark tribal beats (and the da da da chants) then it suddenly goes with that "Smoke scented breeze fills the trees and you drift away..."?
I cut that. :lol:
I leave that last transition where it goes BACK to the dark tribally stuff. That vocal part is just so different (flowery + cheesy) that I 'd rather just ditch it then git my teeth through it. :evil:
So some of you guys like the part i cut?
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
It's what makes the track for me. The rest is gratingly repetitive and is essentially a two-note song.
Advance Promo Copy [Level 3]
I understand where you are coming from, i like the idea of this track transforming and building into another different section but its the actual result i can't stand. I just don't think the two parts fit well. I can see where the buildup can be monotonous but then again I'm a big fan of trance and tribal and this is such a great early example.It's what makes the track for me. The rest is gratingly repetitive and is essentially a two-note song.
Acetate [Level 1]
I havent heard this particular track in a long time ( since my disco fetish kicked in hard -its on my wants list ) but I just have to say that I can sympathise with the original poster ( Disco Dave ) in principle. I find lots of disco tracks start of with a really rhythmic , funky and exciting intro and then , when the chorus kicks in it sounds like the corniest Broadway /50s musical like my parents listened to. ( apologies to fans of those genres,I realize its all subjective )
I wish my DJ skills were advanced enough to circumnavigate these syrupy sections and just retain the harder, funk bits. As it is I have to forgo playing those tracks.
Last edited by Johnny Soul; June 3rd, 2006 at 11:35 PM.
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Yesterday I finally heard the rare Spanish version of this jewel. "Las Colinas de Kat Mandu". Muy bien :lol:
Indie Release [Level 4]
For some reason they play only the Spanish version of "Hills" on the Disco channel on Sirius. Never ever heard it in a club in SF back in the day...
Acetate [Level 1]
Actually what they play on Sirius' Strobe Channel is the Spanish version of Tantra's "Wishbone" that Joe Causi dug up and started playing after I requested it from him about a year ago...That is my all time favorite Tantra track...much more tantric sound and much less commercial then "Hills." If you can find it on vinyl, it is 16 minutes of hard pounding trance.
Mike R.
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
I always thought that this is what many house records do when I first heard them i.e. take a classic 'disco' track, remove the actual catchy bits, just leave the riffs/rhythms & repeat them over & over ad nauseam.:icon_eek: Call me old-fashioned but I'd prefer the originals.:icon_razz:
...ya gotta beat the street......
Indie Release [Level 4]
upload a 320kbps mp3 already. talking about an edit you haven't heard yet is just retarted. ;)
Chart Hit [Level 6]
I think for most of us who love this track find both parts essential to it's
"mood"-it's shifting back and forth are what keeps it interesting.But I also
loved the Patrick Cowley mix too-it stood on it's own merits.What was
once a trippy,trancey track was now a dark druggy assault to the senses.
This has to be one of the greatest disco tracks of all time IMO.
Thom
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