This remix is a great example of how production tweaking in the right places can elevate a good song into a great one — and therefore make me much more confident putting it out there to a crowd at an event.
Candie Payne, a British singer sometimes compared with Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen since all share a similar '60s soul-ish sound in their vocals and song production, released her debut album "I Wish I Could Have Loved You More" last year. "One More Chance" is one of the better tracks on the album, sounding pleasantly like some one-hit-wonder Motown girl group circa 1965, with a dash of Nancy Sinatra thrown in.
I've DJ-ed the album version before, but it's a much better bet to spin the Mark Ronson mix of the song, which is available only on the import CD single (cover pictured). Ronson improves upon the relatively spare and almost plodding guitar instrumentation on the album mix of "One More Chance" by boosting Payne's vocals, adding more violins, a thicker drum beat, and filling the chorus with gorgeous ringing bells to lift the song into the retro stratosphere.
April 30, 2008
0 Comments