When I find it difficult to turn up a track online, particularly when it's the original single and not one of it's remixes, I tend to think it's simply because the original was probably just too crap to promote or unleash. Perhaps sometimes I jump the gun on that conclusion; maybe it's just because the industry has decreed this kind of technique of with holding to be the best way to raise awareness of an artist before releasing the actual single itself. It could also be very likely that it's simply my own ignorance/laziness.
Either way (and in this case of Beni's lead single, it does in fact just seem to be the way it's being promoted), it casts a little shadow of a doubt in my mind of the artist's music in it's original, un-remixed form.
Nevertheless, Beni is typical of Modular Record's inevitably unerring taste (and tastemaking) capabilities, signing the DJ who was previously releasing music via Kitsuné, and prior to that, was best known as half of Riot In Belgium (who, if you remember, remixed such favourites as Chromeo and Yelle, and is apparently an honorary member of Belgium because of his work with RIB. Or so Wikipedia tells me).
Since I haven't yet managed to hear the original, The Magician has turned out yet another great remix, this time for Beni's 'It's A Bubble'. Having a listen through the few songs that I have of the Beni project, it's not particularly my kind of electro or club music. Undoutedly though, the kids love it, and props to Modular for bagging and capitalising on that yet again. I do however, very much enjoy The Magician's remix:
Another one I quite enjoyed is a freebie that Beni of his track 'Yeah' as remixed by Mickey. Geddit:
