RAM and Levela resurrect the traditional monitor from the 60s to show cool by no means goes out of favor.
The 1966 track “Bang Bang (My Child Shot Me Down) written by Sonny Bono and sung by Cher, then coated by Nancy Sinatra (additionally in ’66), is so well-recognized in fashionable music lore that it’s secure to say it’s an establishment. Apart from probably the most recognizable model by Sinatra, the track has been coated or remixed by so many musicians over time that they’re not possible to checklist and take up a full 5 pages on WhoSampled.com. Among the many most notable are Cher herself (with Jon Bon Jovi and Michael Bolton in 1987), Girl Gaga, The Raconteurs, Vanilla Fudge and Nancy’s solely barely extra well-known husband, Frank Sinatra. Now Levela and vocalist LeMeduza have joined the illustrious ranks of those that have remade this legendary monitor, and the long-overdue D&B model of “Bang Bang” is about to drop this Friday, June twenty eighth.
The drum & bass rework of “Bang Bang,” as one would anticipate, is well probably the most completely different in each model and substance from the unique as it may well get. With the Sonny and Cher model being largely folk-based and the Nancy Sinatra model being what we’d now name junkyard nation, there’s not a lot in D&B that may match both of these genres. That mentioned, Levela has taken a major pattern from Bono’s authentic and woven it by means of the monitor. It’s the haunting guitar riff created almost 60 years in the past that has made this monitor such an establishment and the best way Levela makes use of it not simply as a pattern however as a information for the important thing and ambient tone of the monitor makes it simply as visceral and ominous as the unique. Amidst all of the amens, switchbacks and heavy, sine wavey sub bass synths, the vibe of the unique track isn’t misplaced and it’s virtually acquired a put up punk taste to it.
Talking of being true to the unique, LaMeduza’s vocals are what actually tie this monitor collectively and seize the temper of this legendary track so nicely. Not solely does she handle to seize the tone and timbre of Nancy Sinatra’s fashionable model, she could have truly surpassed it. We’re not simply speaking about high quality of apparatus or manufacturing right here, both: LaMeduza’s vocal ability and a spotlight to the drama of the monitor has an authenticity that basically is unmatched. Levela will need to have identified it was particular as nicely, as he offers ample house within the monitor for the total vocals, doing only a few cuts or fragment mixing of the vox except it was to echo it by means of the vox-less elements.
The partnership between Levela and LaMeduza on “Bang Bang” makes for an outstanding collab on prime of a surprisingly danceable resurrection of this greater than half century-old tune. It’s seemingly neither Sonny and Cher nor Nancy Sinatra (nor actually anybody, for that matter) might have ever pictured ravers doing finger weapons to this explicit “banger,” however now that you consider it, it’s truly excellent for a D&B tune. It simply wanted a grasp producer like Levela and a pitch-perfect vocalist like LaMeduza to do it justice. Cool is cool irrespective of that the time interval of age, and “Bang Bang 2023” proves it.
“Bang Bang” 2023 drops Friday, June 30 on RAM Recordings. Click on right here to pre-order or pre-save.
