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Paul Van Dyk doesn't want anything to do with The Smiths

posted by davidt on Tuesday June 09 2009, @12:00PM
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Paul Van Dyk Doesn't Want Anything to Do With the Smiths - Spinner.com

Superstar DJ Paul Van Dyk has remixed some of music's biggest stars, many of which are included on his new greatest hits retrospective, 'Volume,' including Depeche Mode, U2, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears.

But Van Dyk tells Spinner there is one band that's off limits. "When I was a kid, I was a big fan of the Smiths," he says. "I would never ever touch any of their stuff. It's not that I would refrain from actually doing a remix for someone I'm a fan of. I love a challenge."

So, what makes the Smiths different? "That music meant so much to me," he says. "When I was in East Germany, that was my only sort of free mind I could have, listening to that music. The Smiths are the holy grail."
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  • my opinion of this guy who I have barely heard of just went up big time! Now if someone can just erase that horrid mix of "When I last spoke to Carol"
    marred -- Tuesday June 09 2009, @12:06PM (#333840)
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  • Paul van Dyk = Trance house Ministry of Sound shit. Don't bother.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday June 09 2009, @12:44PM (#333852)
  • ...misleading title.
    mywar -- Tuesday June 09 2009, @01:00PM (#333858)
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  • If I new before that he was a huge Smiths fan I would attend his last DJ set in my city wearing my "How soon is now" t-shirt to challenge him to remix it...
    Argyris_Kravaritis -- Tuesday June 09 2009, @01:40PM (#333867)
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  • Paul Van Dyk is the world's No.1 DJ in past two or three years and his earliest musicial infatuations was for Manchester groups as The Smiths and New order and later Inspiral Carpets!

    NASTI -- Wednesday June 10 2009, @12:13AM (#333906)
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  • Remixes (Score:2, Insightful)

    One of the great things about The Smiths was their artistic integrity and generosity of spirit. While other mediocre and less talented acts simply chucked on a couple of remixes to b-sides, The Smiths put new songs out.

    If a song is so great, why remix it? The only decent remix I've come across is the DNA remix of "Feel Every Beat" (but that 12" also had two extra tracks as well).

    I loved the fact that they were so naive about videos - refusing to do them for so many of their singles 'because the songs should stand by themselves'; and also because they wanted to remember the songs and not the videos.

    Where's that kind of idealism now?

    Oh, yes, I remember; it's dead.
    kissmyshades -- Wednesday June 10 2009, @04:03AM (#333921)
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