Today, Simple Minds release the John Foxx & The Maths remix of
their new single 'Blood Diamonds', out via Virgin Records, and we've got
an exclusive stream of the track - have a listen above.
Foxx and Benge give the track an almost wholesale analogue synth
re-envisioning, as well as adding in a track of his own backing vocals,
with Foxx saying of the remix: "I loved Simple Minds from the first
moment I heard them because they were a slightly younger generation who
had taken up drum machines and synthesisers. And they were unique. The
way Jim Kerr plays with words and titles makes him the best internal
movie director I've ever come across. With the remix, Benge and I went
for deep beep, bleep creep and stun drum with me on backing vox. It was
gleeful and glittering and glamorous. Transgression never sounded
sweeter!”
Head over to Beatport to get hold of the remix here.
The original track comes from Simple Minds' recent greatest hits album Celebrate,
with the band touring extensively over the last year. Tonight, they'll
be playing London's KOKO as part of the Virgin Records' 40th anniversary
celebrations; head to the band's website for tickets.
Foxx, meanwhile, has also had a busy year, releasing Evidence,
again, with Benge as John Foxx & The Maths, in February, which
featured guest appearances from The Soft Moon and Gazelle Twin among
others and is one of our favourite albums of the year so far, as well as putting out EPs with Jori Hulkkonen (including a remix from David Lynch) and the Belbury Circle. Read his Baker's Dozen that we posted recently and watch the video for 'Strictly' from the European Splendour EP below:
