Reading & Listening

I'll come clean and admit that I have no idea what this song "The Creeps" by Camille Jones is really about. Is it about drugs? Is it about going insane? Was it originally written for a scary movie?

I have no idea.

All I know is that the electro-house remix of Camille's "The Creeps" by Fedde Le Grand is damn hot! Camille is a Danish singer and a singing star in her own right. She released "The Creeps" two years ago and it's been remixed a couple of times since then with so-so results. But this song in Fedde Le Grand's hands, man oh man, it's magical.

I'll admit I'm biased since I love Fedde thanks to last year's massive tech-house track "Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit". I'd say he's definitely worked his magic once again. He needs to be remixing Depeche Mode.

Here's the link to the video for "The Creeps" on YouTube if you want to hear what I'm loving these days. I'll warn you, the video is a bit over-the-top sexy but Camille is quite entertaining (and I love her outfit!).

Feel free to turn up the sound and put on your dancing shoes.

"Put your hands up for Detroit, a lovely city," sings a male voice before the vocals fall away and we descend into a thumping electronic bassline.

"Put Your Hands Up For Detroit" feels more techno than house to me...Regardless of genre, it's the kind of record that makes the dancer seem more alive, lovelier, fresher. It's exactly the kind of track that would have had me dancing up on a table ten years ago at the old Shelter nightclub in Chicago.

Certainly, this ode to Detroit, the ancestral home of techno, is ridiculously catchy, even if I do think Fedde Le Grande, a DJ from the Netherlands, must not have spent a ton of time in Detroit if he believes it's a lovely city. Then again, it's been at least a decade since I was last there, so I could be wrong. Maybe it's changed...gentrification, "urban renewal" and all that.

In any case, my club days are pretty much over so I'll be rocking this while running at the park and driving through South-Central. Maybe Fedde will make a "Put Your Hands Up For Los Angeles"

Not sure how he'll describe this city though. Any ideas?