Tuesday, December 11, 2012
12 O'Clock Track / Music 12 O'Clock Track: Kendrick Lamar, "Swimming Pools (Drank) (Mano 93 Nostalgia remix)"
Posted By Miles Raymer on 12.11.12 at 12:00 PM
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The problem is that once you've listened to a song so many times you start to desire some novelty. And thanks to the Internet you're almost guaranteed to get a steady stream of remixes, fan videos, YouTube covers, and a genuinely baffling amount of alternatives of whatever song it is that you're fixating on.
Most of these alternate versions are pretty amateurish, but every once in a while you get something professional grade. Like the remix of "Swimming Pools" from Chicago producer and fashion entrepreneur Million Dollar Mano: he replaces the murky, aquatic beat of the original with the same flip of the Isley Brothers' "Footsteps in the Dark" that formed the basis for Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day."
Stream it after the jump.
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