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Gustavo Santaolalla
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Out of 59 votes - Similar Artists: Gabriel & Dresden, Paul Van Dyk, Thrillseekers
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- Location: United States
- Genre: Electronic & Dance » Trance
Editor's review
Bebop artists were fond of releasing multiple takes of the same song--a special melody shouldn't be limited to one treatment. These remixes of Santaolalla's justly lauded Brokeback Mountain score follow the same logic, offering three distinct ways that stirring theme can abet house music.
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Gustavo Santaolalla's Academy Award-winning score for the breakthrough American love story, Brokeback Mountain, is getting the dance floor treatment by some of the world's top DJs. The haunting, guitar-driven score's centerpiece track, "The Wings", has been reworked into three sweeping dance epics by Gabriel & Dresden, Manny Lehman, Tony Moran and Warren Rigg. The remixes debuted at #1 on Billboard's "Breakout" Hot Dance Club Play chart this week.
The remixers have taken Santaolalla's main theme and created three vastly different versions, each with something to please the most discerning club music fan. Classically-trained arrangers, Gabriel & Dresden, give the song a lengthy progressive house reworking that honors the heartbreaking, emotional core of the score. The "Collaboration Mix" by Manny Lehman, Tony Moran and Warren Rigg, lushly reproduces the song into a Balearic house mix. Manny Lehman's remix takes a more hard-hitting, tribal approach, and is primed for peak-hour "big room" consumption.
