Grammy – The Oedipus Project

03/03/201711/28/2020

Bob Moses

Last year on the 5th of February, Tearing Me Up by Bob Moses was featured here.

I am so pleased that the remix of the song won a Grammy Award.

The original post is reprinted below and I have added the remix by RAC as well.

“Bob Moses is a Canadian electronic duo based in Brooklyn.

Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance attended high school together in Vancouver. Howie went on to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, Vallance to producing dance music.

The two accidently reconnected in New York and formed Bob Moses, the name a tribute to Robert Moses, a major New York City urban planner responsible for many of the iconic bridges and expressways in the City, not to mention Shea Stadium.

Days Gone By is their debut including the song Tearing Me Up.”

Tearing Me Up

Tearing Me Up (RAC Remix)

04/01/201005/17/2017

LCD Soundsystem

James Murphy is LCD Soundsystem. (He adds various musicians when he performs live.) Murphy is also the co-founder of his own dance/punk label, DFA. LCD Soundsystem has won Grammy Awards for Best Electronic/Dance album for both of his previous two albums: LCD Soundsystem and Sound of Silver. From the 3rd and forthcoming This is Happening, “Drunk Girls” is the Song of the Day.

“Drunk Girls”

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03/24/201002/26/2013

Phoenix

The French band Phoenix won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album. The song “1901” from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix has been ubiquitous over the past year as has the Song of the Day “Lisztomania”. It’s featured today as it continues to be wildly infectious and is contrasted with a clever remix by Alex Metric. (BTW, his remix of “Stylo” by Gorillaz is particularly intriguing and can be found on his website.)

Franz Liszt is a Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso who lived in the 19th century. Lisztomania was an actual phenomenon throughout Europe akin to Beatlemania. Equivalent to our modern day rock star, Liszt’s showmanship and mesmerizing stage presence lifted audiences into a near hysterical frenzy. Women particularly adored him and fought over pieces of his clothing that he would throw into the audience, and they shed theirs as well.

Phoenix-“Lisztomania”
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Phoenix-“Lisztomania (Alex Metric Remix)”
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