What's The Story?
Raise Your Weapon is an uncharacteristically extra-dirty half-dubstep beat from deadmau5's third album, 4x4=12.* More importantly, Madeon is only like 17 and is getting acclaim from some heavy names on the electro scene, including (but not limited to) deadmau5 himself, Skrillex, and Rob Swire (Pendulum).** This mix was on an album of Raise Your Weapon remixes.
Who's To Blame?
My fantasy football nemesis for the impending year.
Why ♥ It?
Forget everything about the original Raise Your Weapon. The remix mostly features the vocal line from the original. Whereas the original sees the vocal as sort of a gem among the rocks, the remix has a real Justice-like feel with the intensity, overarching organs, and slappy bass pieces. What results is a song that feels much cleaner and lighter than the original without losing vocal intensity.
The whole thing is great, but the chorus merits a highlighting all its own. It's mostly a funky breakdown, but what Madeon does is take snippets of the original vocal, run it through an autotune type filter, and play them almost like an instrument. The impressive part is the halfsecond of angelic vocal that almost every layer stops for, but not long enough to miss a beat. It's a series of small releases that feel absolutely awesome to listen to. After a couple rounds of verses and breakdown bliss, the bridge at 3:20 (You won't feel a thiiiiiiiiing) has the perfect soaring feel before the song tapers out.
I told a coworker about this song, and a couple weeks later he was telling me about how he'd bought $250 headphones the previous day, and one of the first things he did was listen to this song and hear a whole new tune. I'm no hardware audiophile, but I'd already thought this remix was a whole new tune. With layering like that, I hope Madeon makes a career of it.
* = Stand back, I have a math degree. It's true in base 14!
** = Needless to say, Madeon is from France.
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