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Gong Gong Gong 工工工 - Phantom Rhythm Remixed 幽靈節奏 - on the original album the rhythms mostly came from a percussive guitar attack; now there are drums added (among other tweaks)

On Gong Gong Gong’s raucous debut, ‘Phantom Rhythm 幽靈節奏,’ the minimalist Beijing duo created a drummer-less sound that was more than the sum of its parts, inspired by back-porch blues, Sahelian guitar music, New York no-wave, Cantonese lion dance percussion, and seemingly most incongruously, techno. With 'Phantom Rhythm Remixed,’ Gong Gong Gong bring to life a concept they’ve planned since the release of their acclaimed first LP, curating their favorite China-connected electronic music producers to remix 'Phantom Rhythm’ in its entirety. The globe-spanning collaboration features Yu Su (Vancouver/Kaifeng), Zaliva-D, Simon Frank, Howie Lee (Beijing), Mong Tong, Scattered Purgatory (Taipei), Knopha (Xiamen), Wu Zhuoling (Chengdu), Angel Wei (Copenhagen), and P.E. (Brooklyn). The LP traces a common thread, organically expanding the palette of Gong Gong Gong into ambient club tracks, thumping dance music, cinematic soundscapes, and bit-crushed psych.

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Wish You Were Here (Alt. Version with Violin) - Pink Floyd

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Lady GaGa - “Dance in the Dark”

“The record is about a girl who likes to have sex with the lights off, because she’s embarrassed about her body. She doesn’t want her man to see her naked. She will be free, and she will let her inner animal out, but only when the lights are out.

She doesn’t feel free without the moon. These lyrics are a way for me to talk about how I believe women and some men feel innately insecure about themselves all the time. It’s not sometimes, it’s not in adolescence, it’s always.

The song isn’t called ‘Dance in the Light,’ I’m not a gospel singer trying to cross people over. What I’m saying is, ‘I get it. I feel you, I feel the same way, and it’s OK.’”

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Sugar Kane - Sonic Youth (Dirty, 1992)

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Unmastered with scratch vocals

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kal·op·si·a [kal-op-see-uh]

-noun a condition, state or delusion in which things appear more beautiful than they really are