{"id":8644,"date":"2024-08-17T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2024-08-17T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T17:16:00","slug":"love-rockets-celebrate-35th-anniversary-of-hit-so-alive-with-remix-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8644","title":{"rendered":"Love & Rockets Celebrate 35th Anniversary of Hit \u201cSo Alive\u201d with Remix EP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SOURCE: www.americansongwriter.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Tina Benitez-Eves<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Love & Rockets played their first show in 15 at the Cruel World Festival in 2023, Rob (D.J. K) and Scott (The Crystal Method) were in the audience and later approached the band with an interesting proposition: remixing their 1989 hit \u201cSo Alive.\u201d The band, originally formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus<\/a> members Daniel Ash, David J<\/a>, and Kevin Haskins, took it a step further with a six-song EP featuring five remixes of the song by D.J. K and The Crystal Method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out August 30 (Beggars Archive), the limited-edition remix EP<\/a> features remixes of the track by The Crystal Method and D.J. K and is available on a clear picture disc and digitally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Released on the band\u2019s 1989 self-titled album, \u201cSo Alive\u201d went to No. 3 on the Billboard<\/em> Hot 100 and topped the Rock Tracks chart for five weeks. Initially written by Ash, \u201cSo Alive\u201d was inspired by a moment when Ash was caught by the presence of a woman at a party on the other side of the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was completely transfixed,\u201d\u00a0remembered Ash<\/a>\u00a0of the song in a 2023 interview. \u201cI never went up to her because it wasn\u2019t appropriate\u2014I was married at the time\u2014but she had long brown hair, and it was like I\u2019d known her in a different lifetime or something. It was just this thing that hit me like a ton of bricks. I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By that next Monday, the band was about to record one of David J\u2019s songs when Ash interjected with his song, which wasn\u2019t completely written yet. \u201cI had the first line because I didn\u2019t know what color her eyes were\u2014she was on the other side of a dark room\u2014and the first two chords,\u201d remembered Ash. \u201cThere are only two chords in that song anyway. I just said, \u2018Give me half an hour. I\u2019m going into the basement of the studio.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While recording at Blackwing Studios in London, Ash retreated to the cellar with a bottle of whiskey and finished the song in 45 minutes. \u201cIt was a very magical day,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know where that came from. I wish that would happen more often. But I went up and played it, and just like [Bauhaus\u2019] \u2018Bela Lugosi\u2019s Dead,\u2019 Kevin started playing the beat and David followed along with the bassline he came up with. We recorded the whole thing that day, got the backing singers in the following day, and it was all done in 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Named after the 1982 underground comic by the Hernandez brothers (Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario), Love & Rockets<\/em>, released seven albums from debut Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven<\/em> through Lift<\/em> from 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2024, Love & Rockets kicked off their summer tour<\/a> with the recently reunited Jane\u2019s Addiction. The 23-city tour kicked off on August 9 at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas and will make stops across North America before wrapping up at Evolution Festival in St. Louis, Missouri on September 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018So Alive\u2019 Remix EP Tracklist:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo Alive (Original Version)\u201d
\u201cSo Alive (D.J. K\u2019s Vibrant Nu-Disco Mix)\u201d
\u201cSo Alive (The Crystal Method Remix)\u201d
\u201cSo Alive (D.J. K\u2019s Vibrant Nu-Disco Single Edit)\u201d
\u201cSo Alive (The Crystal Method & Future Funk Squad Dub)\u201d
\u201cSo Alive (D.J. K\u2019s Vibrant Nu-Disco Dub Mix)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SOURCE: www.americansongwriter.com By Tina Benitez-Eves When Love & Rockets played their first show in 15 at the Cruel World Festival in 2023, Rob (D.J. K) and Scott (The Crystal Method) were in the audience and later approached the band with an interesting proposition: remixing their 1989 hit \u201cSo Alive.\u201d The band, originally formed in 1985… Read More »Love & Rockets Celebrate 35th Anniversary of Hit \u201cSo Alive\u201d with Remix EP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8646,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions\/8646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}