Wax Tailor, or Jean-Christophe Le Saoût, is a French producer who remixes old songs into languid trip-hop. His first LP, Tales of the Forgotten Melodies, is fun but does err towards letting the samples do the work. Here Wax Tailor remixes Doris Day's "Que Sera."
Abraham Orellana, the Sri-Lankan producer behind AraabMuzik, has been reappropriating cheesy trance with magnificent results. "Streetz Tonight" speeds up and adds a backbone to Kaskade's "4am." The album on which this appears, Electronic Dream, is definitely worth checking out.
Jacques Greene (whose new EP Concealer just dropped) successfully disguises Brandy's cringe-worthy "I Wanna Be Down." Not only does he distort the vocal sample beyond recognition, he makes it sound chic. Just to add another buffer between you and Brandy, here's Koreless' remix.
On a completely different note, The Caretaker's conceptual album An Empty Bliss Beyond this World remixes static-y loops of early 20th century parlor music to simulate the loss of memory due to Alzheimer's Disease. It's eerily beautiful and wholly original.
One of the most skillful musical thieves out there today is Nicolas Jaar. Unlike Kanye West's undeniably catchy "Gold Digger," Jaar's remix of "I Got a Woman" will not make Ray Charles turn in his grave. No idea what the French interlude is about, but it works.
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