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Today's Song: Little Boots 'Headphones (Dimitri From Paris Dub)'

Rich Juzwiak · 06/04/12 04:55PM

This unreleased dub rips off Madonna's "Into the Groove" quite explicitly, and I suspect that is the point. Considering that it's coming from one of the most encyclopedia minds in dance music today, Dimitri from Paris, this track reads more like a reference to the small rash of musical Madonna wannabes in the '80s. In the hierarchy, I think "Headphones" sits somewhere below Regina's "Baby Love" but above Alisha's "Baby Talk." This guy knows what I'm talking about.

Today's Song: Little Boots 'Every Night I Say a Prayer (Tensnake Remix)'

Rich Juzwiak · 04/25/12 01:55PM

For another Record Store Day release, British singer-songwriter Victoria Christina Hesketh (Little Boots) teamed up with historic Chicago house label Trax to release the 12" for "Every Night I Say a Prayer." She wrote this one with Hercules & Love Affair's Andy Butler and it's better than anything on his group's sophomore dud Blue Songs. (It's also better than pretty much everything on Little Boots' own spotty debut, 2009's Hands.) The housey original version of "Every Night" incorporates a sort of cleaned-up old-school Chicago aesthetic (dig the claps), but Tensnake's posh freestyle rerub is the vinyl's real winner. You can never go wrong with clinking 808s and pretty female vocals. Fact.