Wire magazine looked at this a few months ago, but it bears re-examination. Chris De Burgh's Lady in Red is a terrible song. But used as source material, two of the day's most prominent electronic artists have transformed the banal original into something quite different. First off, Caretaker / VVM / James Kirby rips the song apart, radically rewriting it as a guttural dirge that is both funny and unnerving at the same time. And the bass line is truly chilling.
Then Oneohtrix Point Never (before he got noticed) has a go at turning De Burgh's song into a floating ambient lament to infinity.
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