Fever Ray Remix Day!
Born Karin Elisabeth Dreijer Andersson, Fever Ray has been wooing us with her adorable and incredibly versatile voice for almost a decade now. She began her commercial career as guitarist and lead vocalist for alt-rockers Honey is Cool before gaining much noteriety as one half of the explosive (and similarly versatile) electronic duo The Knife. Last year, Fever Ray released her self-titled solo debut to great critical acclaim. But that isn’t much Fever Ray’s style. Notoriously critical of the mainstream music scene and the media, Fever Ray and brother Olof Dreijer (second half of The Knife) wear masks for public appearances and for most anything publicity-related, have boycotted award ceremonies (including by sending two representatives wearing gorilla costumes to represent the male dominance of the music industry), and had even refused to play live performances until quite recently. Despite her attitudes towards and relations with the mainstream music industry, the internet music industry has welcomed her with open arms, with artists covering and remixing her work as soon as it is released, if not before. Here are a few of our favorites that we’ve collected over the past few months. Enjoy!
When I Grow Up (Bassnectar Remix) – Fever Ray
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I’m Not Done (RD Remix) – Fever Ray
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Triangle Walks (Rex the Dog Remix) – Fever Ray
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Triangle Walks (Tiga’s 1-2-3-4 Remix) – Fever Ray
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Keep The Streets (MaJiKer’s BPM Remix) – Fever Ray
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If I Had A Heart (PiranhaPiranha’s Grownup Jumpup Mix) – Fever Ray
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Seven (The Twelves Remix) – Fever Ray
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And here’s a little bonus video of Fever Ray’s acceptance speech for “Best Artist” during Sweden’s P3 Guld awards this past January. It is one of the better speeches ever delivered.
Peace
file not found for i’m not done and if I had a heart. I’m also not convinced any of these remixes do any variety of justice to her work? which is sad. I really wanted to be blown away by one of these.
The files have been fixed. Enjoy!
Seven (martyn’s seventh remix)
is easily one of the best remixes done to one of her songs, and i agree that many remixes do not do the originals justice, but you do get the odd good one so its just a matter of selective listening ; )
Fever Ray are my favourite band right now….I even bought a T-shirt off the website (never done that before!) They’re playing at Bestival in September….can’t wait!
That Twelves remix of Seven is amazing.
Great post.
The James Rutledge remix of Triangle Walks wipes the floor with Rex the Dog
[...] Despite her attitudes towards and relations with the mainstream music industry, the internet music industry has welcomed her with open arms, with artists covering and remixing her work as soon as it is released, if not before. Here are a few of our favorites that we’ve collected over the past few months. Enjoy! – The New Montreal [...]
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