Well, when you need some grooving blues music, one of the best around is Junior Wells for sure. Junior was a king of the harp and everybody should have a copy of his Hoodoo Man Blues album. His music is still today an inspiration for many musicians and also DJ's know how to adapt his work for a remix. Junior Wells hit "Messin' with the Kid" for example was beautifully remix by DJ _AZK_.
"Messin' with the Kid" was a high grooving cooperation between Buddy Guy and Junior Wells. The Rhythmic melody of this song is unique and unlike other blues songs, the chord standard was creatively changed. Melvin B London actually wrote the song which Wells released in 1960 on a 7 inch vinyl for the Chief Records Label.
Tom Azk a.k.a. dj _AZK_ remix "Messing With The Kid" fantastically. The song is groovy as hell, the funk in fueled intro is a killer and overall you'll find some danceable beats in this remix.
AZK has been on the musical scene of the north of Spain since the 90's. He started as a singer and guitar player in local rock bands until he fell in love with the blues and the harmonica, which is now always present in his productions and live shows.
Don't Start Me Talkin' is one of the trademark song of harmonica bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson II. It was Williamson's first single recorded for Checker Records and reached number three in the Billboard R&B charts in 1955. Sixty years later it is the subject of a DJ remix by Canadian based A-Frillz.
I always like it when producers and DJ's take old blues song and mix it into a dance version. this song for example, puts the catchy harmonica in the loop and adds a deep bass beat to it! the original vocals of Sonny Boy stay in place and the result is a blues inspired dance hit.
Blues music is and will always be an inspiration for musicians and dj's. Now and then you find on the internet pretty cool remixes of blues and rock n roll songs. Like Bo Diddley's "Pretty Thing which was mixed by Russian artist Felix Helpless. This blues remix stays close to the original but is edited was some pretty cool bass, beats and hand clapping.
Hailin' from Yekaterinburg in middle Russia Felix Helpless makes all kinds of remixes from abstract ambient breakbeat downtempo electronic hip hop idm trip hop and classic songs like "Pretty Thing" of Bo Diddley.
On Felix Helpless Bandcamp and Soundcloud you will find more nice remixed of all sort of songs!
Pretty Thing" was recorded on july 14th, 1955 for checker records and is a product of Chess bass player and songwriter Willie Dixon. Bo Diddley however added his own musical and textual style to it. The song was Diddley's third single release through Checker Records after "Diddley Daddy". British Rock band the Pretty Things took their band name from this song .
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The great Howlin' Wolf recorded amazing songs in Memphis, London and Chicago, but if you have to pick one song that really has all features of a signature Wolf song, it is Smokestack Lightning". In 1956, four years after Howlin' Wolf moved to Chicago Smokestack Lightnin' was recorded and it became one of his most popular and influential songs. It is based on earlier blues songs and numerous artists later interpreted it.
Even today Smokestack Lightnin' is an inspiration for musicians and DJ's. A lot of musicians including Soundgarden and Lynyrd Skynyrd covered the song. Also DJ's change this old blues classic in new danceable song. My favorite remix of Smokestack Lightnin' is the version of Beat Diplomacy.
Beat Diplomacy is an electro acoustic act from London formed by Tomas Gorol (producer) and Michele Budda (saxophone, piano) in 2014. Their genre varies over electro swing, blues and jazz. Their major inspiration is taken from artists like Parov Stelar, Gramatik, Goldfish or Big Gigantic.
They recently released their first EP Get Back To Swing! which includes collaborations with guitarist Fernando Salomao and vocalist Ana Laura Martins.
From Moanin' in the Moonlight (1959).