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Adagio for Strings
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| djrory |
Cheeky little bootleg of the Platoon classic. Cashing in before Tiesto does. On pre order at Above The Sky
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| aspergian |
| Thanks. It's funny how Platoon elevated that piece of music to a whole new popularity level (gunshots and all). Barber must be happy. |
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| aspergian |
| Thanks again djrory... this place has really good MP3 samples, and long ones too. :) |
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| YaleTrance |
| Platoon merely took the piece to the mainstream. Barber's Adagio for Strings has been a huge part of the 20th century classical music canon ever since it premiered. |
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| aspergian |
| quote: | Originally posted by YaleTrance
Platoon merely took the piece to the mainstream. Barber's Adagio for Strings has been a huge part of the 20th century classical music canon ever since it premiered. |
Agreed, good point. Kind of like, you know... Coolio and Pachelbel's Canon in "I'll C U When U Get There" eh... or the Vitamin C "Friends Forever"... hahaha... :) |
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| YaleTrance |
| quote: | Originally posted by aspergian
Agreed, good point. Kind of like, you know... Coolio and Pachelbel's Canon in "I'll C U When U Get There" eh... or the Vitamin C "Friends Forever"... hahaha... :) |
LOL. That's sad. But Pachalbel's Canon is not a very deep composition to start with so i guess it doesn't matter. |
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| aspergian |
Hahaha... for the record I personally prefer the Vitamin C version, I cried while watching the music vid *sniff sniff* :)... although I bet some skilled DJ could crossbreed the two into a new white label and maybe jack it up 30 BPM and put a THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP beat on it.
Oh, another of my fave remixes of something "classical" (using that term loosely)... is that Paul Oakenfold remake of that cue from Requiem For A Dream played by Kronos Quartet... the one that's really simple but has a catchy riff (which apparently makes for good dance remixing)... the name eludes me ATM. Ah well.
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| auujay |
| quote: | Originally posted by aspergian
Oh, another of my fave remixes of something "classical" (using that term loosely)... is that Paul Oakenfold remake of that cue from Requiem For A Dream played by Kronos Quartet... the one that's really simple but has a catchy riff (which apparently makes for good dance remixing)... the name eludes me ATM. Ah well.
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Zoo York
Anyway, by making this a bootleg they probably avoid paying royalties to Barber (or his estate at least). Nice big sample but the Ferry remix is still better :) |
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| GrimReaper |
Brilliant track(s), both Barber's 1938 original classical piece and Orbit's 1999 electronized reconstruction but of the remixes & remakes i have really liked only Ferry Corsten remix and the new Tiësto remake while Minimalistix remake and the sampled bootleg remix are both very weak efforts IMO. So generic and uninspiring with the standard supersaw synths. *Yawn* Me no likey.
| quote: | Originally posted by aspergian
Thanks. It's funny how Platoon elevated that piece of music to a whole new popularity level (gunshots and all). Barber must be happy. |
I dunno how happy Samuel Barber himself is.. as he died 13 years ago (March 9 1910 - January 23 1981). Probably his family is happy for the incoming royalties tho.
He wrote "String Quartet in B major" in 1936 of which he two years later rearranged and the result became known as "Adagio For Strings".. Then William Orbit rerecorded the classic in 1999 to the electronic form we know as "Barber's Adagio For Strings". |
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| aspergian |
| quote: | Originally posted by GrimReaper
Brilliant track(s), both Barber's 1938 original classical piece and Orbit's 1999 electronized reconstruction but of the remixes & remakes i have really liked only Ferry Corsten remix and the new Tiësto remake while Minimalistix remake and the sampled bootleg remix are both very weak efforts IMO. So generic and uninspiring with the standard supersaw synths. *Yawn* Me no likey.
I dunno how happy Samuel Barber himself is.. as he died 13 years ago (March 9 1910 - January 23 1981). Probably his family is happy for the incoming royalties tho.
He wrote "String Quartet in B major" in 1936 of which he two years later rearranged and the result became known as "Adagio For Strings".. Then William Orbit rerecorded the classic in 1999 to the electronic form we know as "Barber's Adagio For Strings". |
Thanks for the history lesson, I learned something new! I like "stories being the songs (or tracks, if one makes the technical distinction between those with a lyric and those without)" like this :)
So you're a walking discography? :D |
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| Floorfiller |
| quote: | Originally posted by aspergian
Thanks for the history lesson, I learned something new! I like "stories being the songs (or tracks, if one makes the technical distinction between those with a lyric and those without)" like this :)
So you're a walking discography? :D |
yes....he is :p :stongue: |
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