After Cyril Hahn almost set off an entire genre nearly one and half years ago, Destiny’s Child remixes and new versions and their counterparts from back then have become something like the cool thing to do. The hipster clubs love playing some pitched down r&b on some etheral house beats with a lot of funk in the basslines or the trap producers who use those destiny-childish (wanted to write that word so bad – damn i’m a nerd) vocals to spice or sex up their otherwise mostly emotionless productions. So R&B was back! At first you might be like…
It’s funny how the tables have turned. A few years back much of 90s R&B was mostly considered pure trash and widely regarded as the scum of the music biz, and all of a sudden it’s like the holy grail for a new breed of producers. Those guys were probably too young to realize how awful some of it was back then. All of a sudden hipsters everywhere are like…
Deep House, Trap, Mashups and Beatmakers verywhere are currently killing R&B acapellas left and right. Even Garage is making a hefty comeback with its R&B driven girlie tunes and even new crically acclaimed producers like Kaytranada almost exclusively use old R&B vocals on top of their productions. But honestly who cares? As long as it’s good music…
You can knock it as much as you want, but some of the material from back then stood the test of time simply because it was good written songs and there’s a reason for those to shine again. Destiny’s Child was like the biggest act back then and besides TLC (will be another post) widely regarded as one of, if not the coolest act around. So here’s my ultimate selection of current Destiny’s Child Remixes & contemporary Covers that are soooo Two-thousand and Now! DC’s biggest hit of course was…
i think its not just a trend but with the emeregence of new technolgies and everybody and his dog producing music, bits and chops from the 90ies era are gonna pop up more and more. And if you don’t like it, well i guess you are gonna have to…