Published
Fri, Oct 28, 2011, 14:00
- Produced under the alias Coseph Jonrad, the album remixes a slew of '80s hits.
Ralph Cumbers, AKA Bass Clef, has released a free digital album under his Coseph Jonrad moniker, entitled FIAT Million Hits.
The collection marks the half-way point in Cumbers' Paper Round Tapes series, in which he takes records he grew up listening to (often on his paper route) and remixes them track-by-track. FIAT Million Hits is a bit different from the others: rather than a classic album by one of Cumbers' favorite artists, it remixes an LP that came free with a car his family bought in the '80s.
"I don't really understand the reason, but with our car came a scratch-card," he writes. "I think top prize was another car, but instead we won an LP. The sleeve-notes shout out jubilantly the successes of FIAT, and their million-unit-selling car. Why, I don't know. We'd already bought the car."
To celebrate FIAT's million units sold, the album collected songs by artists who had sold millions of records. This means mainstream radio tunes like "Rio" by Duran Duran, "You Spin Me Right Round" by Dead or Alive and the Ghostbusters theme. In most cases, Cumbers' remix is a warped, distant echo of the original.
You can download a zip file of the album, complete with the original's full liner notes and written introduction by Cumber, here on his label's website.
Tracklist
01. Rio
02. Let's Stay Together
03. Caribbean Queen
04. You Take Me Up
05. Wouldn't It Be Good
06. Love of the Common People
07. Ghostbusters
08. We Don't Talk Anymore
09. You SPin Me Round
10. Total Eclipse of the Heart
11. Here Comes the Rain Again
12. Club Tropicana
FIAT Million Hits is currently available on Magic + Dreams.