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CMU Approved
Approved: Gang Gang Dance & Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
By Aly Barchi | Published on Monday 27 June 2011
What do you get when you cross venerable dub-reggae man Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry with genre-dabbling NYC trendies Gang Gang Dance? A really good remix of GGD’s recent single ‘Mindkilla’, obviously.
Blowing up the dancehall inflections of the original, the Jamaica-based music man interweaves his own verses with Gang Gang Dance lead singer Lizzi Bougatsos’ eccentric vocal. “I did have a great fun in the studio recreating the riddim”, said the reggae legend of his remix. “The engineers and people around also enjoyed the vibes and the great voice of Lizzi”.
Acting as spokesperson for the group, Brian DeGraw said Gang Gang Dance were honoured and “blessed” to have their track toyed with by the great LSP: “I think about him a lot in day to day life but never really imagined our paths would cross in any other way. And I really have to give it up for anyone who gets handed a song about fear and turns it into a club banger about eating cops. Perfect”. Perfect, indeed.
Download the remix here.
