John, Paul, George, Ringo, and Madonna.

September 5, 2005 7:01 PM

At the dawn of the mp3 era, I found a track on the web that has alluded me since. It was a remix, and may have been a home-brew, and it's therefore much harder to find. I'm hoping there's a Mefite out there that has stumbled on this in the past, and can point me the right direction.

The base song was one of the heavily Hindu-influenced electronica tracks off of Madonna's Ray Of Light album (it may have been the track "Shanti/Ashtangi", but I don't have the album handy, so I can't tell you definitively). The best part of the remix was how the DJ weaved in bits of The Beatles' Within You Without You (the heavily Hindu-influenced track from Sgt. Pepper's).

For me, there's a sense memory attached to that song of listening to it on a burned CD and walking through the World Trade Center (where I worked, at the time). It's just one of those things I'd like to recapture from that time period.

posted by thanotopsis to media & arts (6 comments total)

Perhaps I meant "illuded". *sigh*
posted by thanotopsis at 7:09 PM on September 5, 2005

Or "eluded".
posted by mr_crash_davis at 7:12 PM on September 5, 2005

Kruder and Dorfmeister did a fairly famous remix of "Nothing Really Matters" from that album. I don't have Sgt. Pepper's handy so I can't say if they mixed that in.
posted by geoff. at 7:14 PM on September 5, 2005

I just downloaded The Beatles' song and I doubt this is what you're looking for. There's some semblences of Hindu and the basic beat in the K&D remix but it's much more heavy and downtempo. Unless you're amazing and pattern recognition, I doubt you said compared the two. If you have a g-mail address I'd be happy to send you the K&D remix if you want.
posted by geoff. at 7:22 PM on September 5, 2005

No, I'm definitely familiar with the Beatles track in question. The uniqueness of this mashup with the Madonna track was how it kind of flowed through the middle of the song, as if it were meant to be there. Ach, it's kind of hard to explain. I'd still be happy to hear what you have there, geoff -- [e-mail]
posted by thanotopsis at 7:28 PM on September 5, 2005

At the dawn of the mp3 era...

Quibble: "Ray of Light" appeared in 1998. MP3s were popular Internet-wide by 1995—to those in the know, at least.
posted by Mo Nickels at 1:08 PM on September 6, 2005