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As I start writing this post, the first thing to come to mind is a 1996 episode of The Simpsons called “Hurricane Neddy”. In it, a storm hits the town of Springfield and Ned Flanders finds his family home has been destroyed. Whilst he’s away, the other residents of the town rush to rebuild the house – badly.
After he’s seen the house for himself, Homer leans on the front door. The house immediately collapses. Flanders bursts into a rage and starts insulting various residents of the town who are gathered outside – and of Lisa Simpson, he cuttingly refers to her as “Springfield’s answer to a question no one asked”.
When I first heard “The Age Of Love” by Age Of Love had been remixed yet again for 2021, this was exactly what came to mind. Did anyone ask for a new version of this? And when I discovered it was by Charlotte de Witte and Enrico Sangiuliano, that more or less confirmed it for me.
Who thought this remix was remotely necessary? Remixes already exist by Jam & Spoon, Paul Van Dyk, Baby Doc, Brainbug, Cosmic Gate, Marc Et Claude, Marco V, Abel Ramos, Manuel De La Mare, Solomun – and those are just the ones I remember.
This one only appears to have got a release because De Witte kept playing her version in sets and the online ID community created a buzz around it. It’s the same as what happened with Maceo Plex’s mix of Faithless “Insomnia”. But look at the shameless way De Witte is promoting it…
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Has she swallowed so much of her own hype that she thinks herself and Sangiuliano made the track themselves? Heaven only knows what Giuseppe Chierchia and Bruno Sanchioni – who created the original late in 1989 – would make of it…