I happened to listen to Lionrock - Packet of Peace (Chems remix) and Song to the Siren right after. They've got a lot in common : the bass is almost the same, the vocal sample is used in both tracks, and the background sound that comes at 1:18 in STTS sounds a lot like the "bubbling" synth that comes at 0:56 in Packet of peace, the hats are exactly the same...

Your thoughts ?

This is an amazing record.

haven't heard it in so fucking long.

but yeah same hats etc. a lot of their early remix stuff and dust brothers stuff is real similar I think.

it's funny how nothing could be farther from the truth these days, or indeed from DYOH onwards.

I've never noticed that connection. Might have to give a listen later.

I do really love the remixes from that era through DYOH. Lionrock, Prodigy, Mercury Rev, Spiritualized: All bloody brilliant. Such an amazing energy. I've loved newer mixes too (Kylie especially) but those earlier ones were just electric.

Haha, funny you mention, I always thought it was more an alternate version of Three Little Birdies Down Beats, because the tempo are (i believe) identical and the bass lines are in the same key. It's sorta like a Frankenstein for the two...

IT'S ALIVE!!!!!

I think Three Little Birdies Down Beats sounds similar to the Leftfield Open Up remix. On the Open Up remix they use the same guitar riff as what appears on Wede Man (Hoody Mix) from Live at the Social. Makes me wonder what the original Wede Man sounds like!

Good call, I haven't listened to either in a few years for some odd, sacrilegious reason...

yeah fuck man, acid line in open up is so... i dunno it's so simple, but it takes me to a great place. back before i knew anything of electronic music. so it seems so romantic. i was a little kid and it was all going on, but i had no idea about it.

might also point out that they use the same crash for pretty much everything from the EPD era, including most of EPD itself.

and fatboy also used it a few times in his early days, i seem to remember reading an interview where the two bring this up, and lol about it.

and yeah fuck yeah Wede man, i can't believe i never matched those two, whenever it comes on in open up remix i'm like... what the fuck is that? it's so familiar.

now i get it THANK YOU hahha rad.

Haha, the famous crash with birds after it.

And I love the acid riff of Open Up/Three Little Birdies Down Beats. Especially in the live versions of TLBDB in 97 when it goes crazy

Anyone here notice how the I Think I'm In Love remix sounds like a Sunshine Underground 2? The remix was released 1998, same year they were recording Surrender, so perhaps one influenced the other?