The Darker Side of Aida

This mega anthem from Tim Rice and Elton John's show "Aida" became just another notch in Deborah Cox's dance music belt when Tony Moran & Warren Rigg had her re-record and reconstruct the song for the dance floor.

However, it's this mix I just got done by Jose Spinnin Cortes that really caught my ear.

A much darker spin to what Tony and Warren produced, Jose uses his heavy beats and hard synth lines to take Deborah to the next level. And boy does it work!!!

I have to say, at the current moment I do favor this mix to Tony and Warren's (although the "Babylon" mix that later surfaced on Tony's "Tour De Beats" CD comes close).

Deborah Cox - Easy As Life (JM's Jose Spinnin Radio Mix)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/50222987d9cb07/

So whatcha gonna do??... Why did you take it all away? Why did you have nothing to say?

Once again I had to feature Offer Nissim and Maya. Easily one of the best collaborations to ever come out of dance music history, this song is a prime example as to why.

"Heartbreaking" has such haunting lyrics by Maya and the sultry synths Offer provides shows just how well these two work together.



Now, as far as Offer tracks go, his original tracks are pretty tough to beat. There are very few remixes of his Maya songs that come close to what their original intentions were...let alone work as well.

However, Jose Spinnin took "Be My Boyfriend" and turned it OUT! The beat is a heavy thump-thump and the synths give this mix a reeeeeeally nice punch! BUT it's the breakdown at around 2:30 that sells this mix! Total genious!!!


Offer Nissim feat Maya - Heartbreaking (JM's Radio Mix)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/502643071600ec/



Offer Nissim feat Maya - Be My Boyfriend (JM's Jose Spinnin Radio Mix)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/5026364fdb5f32/

Gwen Stefani is Yummy!

This is totally another guilty pleasure. Now, don't get me wrong, I adore Gwen, but this second solo CD I thought SUCKED big time!! Her first one was brilliant and this just seemed like a re-hash of stuff other people have already did.

So it came as quite a surprise to me when I was in Baltimore and I heard a THUMPING version of this on the dancefloor! I thought it was so good that it could've well as been the original version (which I know it's not).

Originally produced by The Neptunes and featuring Pharrell, DJ Jose Spinnin Cortes got his hands on this and made this into dancefloor drama! Voguers take your marks because this one has attitude written ALL over it!

Gwen Stefani feat Pharrell - Yummy (JM's Jose Spinnin Radio Edit)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/xu550b