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Illegal Art - Titanic

Here at Doklands, it feels like we've been coasting for a while. I've been happily uploading lots of pleasant tunes, and you've been happily downloading them. Enough! This is not a proper musical diet. Just as your parents insisted that you eat your greens, I am also going to make sure that you get a balanced menu here, with some highly nutritious difficult listening.

I'll be strictly honest with you here: I neither know what this track is called, nor who is performing it. I found it on detritus several years ago, and have admired it ever since. Illegal Art is a label run by the pseudonymous Philo T. Farnsworth. It was made famous by its first release, Deconstructing Beck, which earned many lawyers very comfortable sums of money. It was an album made entirely out of samples of Beck. The followup to this, from which I've drawn today's track, was Extracted Celluloid, where each track was drawn from an individual film. The trouble is, if you look at the Extracted Celluloid track listing, there's nothing there labelled as Titanic, and nor can I tell if any of the tracks look as if they're derived from Titanic. So what the hell this thing is, I've no idea. This is the sort of comfortable grey area that Illegal Art likes to occupy, and I'm glad to have been of some help to them here.

So, here we have Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On being assaulted by storm force winds, buried under torrential rainfall, and slowly drowning. And do you know what? It sounds so much better for it. There are all sorts of electronic treatments here, which combine to give a sense of distance between the listener and the original audio sources. Well, you wouldn't want to get too close, would you? A fascinating piece.

[edit: Found it! The track is SingKingHeart by Rudjak Manigz. Can't be arsed re-uploading it. If you want to edit the proper ID tag, you'll have to edit it yourselves.]