PREMIERE: Lionel Hampton - Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop (Midnight Sun Remix)
Nowadays, a compilation will be released for just about anything—is there a special project quite as entangled as an EP of remixes of songs from the soundtrack of a video game? But that's exactly what we have here with the L.A. Noire Remixed EP (which you can purchase here), released in conjunction with the newest project from Rockstar Games, an L.A. Confidential-esque yarn that stars the guy who plays Ken Cosgrove on Mad Men. For such an ostensibly throwaway project, the EP does seem to have some choice cuts. On their remix of Lionel Hampton's 1940s R&B/jazz classic "Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop," Andrew Raposo and Morgan Wiley of Midnight Magic and Jessica 6 (under their new remix/production guise of Midnight Sun) remove the song from the smoky noirish backdrops of The Big Sleep and place it in the smoky, futuristic neo-noir of Blade Runner. Where the original song's saloon-scented piano and belligerent brass recall speakeasies and flophouses, Midnight Sun's pulsing disco beat, peppery bongos, and gleaming synths recall the soft glare and symmetrical glamor of discotheques, limousines, and swift car chases in elegant coupes.
Lionel Hampton - Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop (Midnight Sun Remix)
