A PANTERA REMIX = SACRILEGE? NAH.
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 1:30pm by Vince Neilstein
MS Maniac Adrien Arnoux sent us an “outraged” email about the French remix outfit Hello, Atomic (actually just one dude) whose latest jawn “We Will Brokeback Mountain Yo’ Ass” is a mash-up of the main riff from Pantera’s “Cowboys From Hell” with vocal samples from Queen’s “We Will Rock” over the choruses and The Beastie Boys’ “Intergalactic” over the verses. It’d be awfully easy to be dismissive and hateful towards a remixer for butchering/stealing/raping/pillaging a sacred Pantera riff… but no, this shit is awesome. I support. And it turns out that Mr. Arnoux is the man behind the plan himself; nice work, dude!
For one, it’s well done; this isn’t some hack sloppily cutting and pasting together beats in GarageBand. On account of that, if this remix inspires just one kid to say, “That riff is pretty cool. What is it? Pantera? I’ll have to check them out,” and then that kid subsequently falls in love with Pantera… it’s all worth any supposed desecration this remix could’ve caused. I also happen to like the other two songs he mashed up with the Pantera riff; I’ve got mad love for Queen and mad love for NYC’s original Jew Yorker rappers The Beastie Boys.
Hello, Atomic also have a Refused vs. Gwen Stefani track on their MySpace page. +1. FTW. A+. etc.
-VN
its pretty good i dig it thumbs up
That was quite cool… The Eminem vs. Limp Bizkit remix was well done, but suffers from weak source material (at least, I think that was Limp Bizkit).
wut???
i thought it sucked
sorry
I gave it one listen, but I wouldn’t waste my time on listening to it again EVER. And I wouldn’t recommend it to anybody either.
sick editing though
Them’s some mad skillz.
Hard to go wrong chopping up Pantera. Headbanger’s Balls did it first, if ya remember.
this shit is sweet man lol and very well put together..
JAWN?! You from philly Vince?
I love the editing.
The Pantera mash is pretty creative…I am really diggin the Eminem (“The Way I Am”) remix that’s on that page as well.. Both are quite well done; very talented editing, etc.
This is infinitely better than anything Pantera ever made.
GTFOH
I usually hate it when people do this, but I’m trying this out for the first time because I can’t think of any other way to put it…
+1
…for giving some love to the B-Boys. They fucking kick ass all day and all night.
wow, I never thought that Pantera would work techno-style