Peaces is no stranger to the recontextualized pop hit and cultural reference mashup and remix but with “Down To Earth” he has outdone himself with the both the audio and the unusual collage music video. Crafting a hodgepodge of a sample of Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8er Boi,” some ever so slightly warped Don Toliver flourishes and what sounds like a modified UK garage beat, Peaces invites the listener to rethink how popular music works and how it can sound. Certainly hip-hop and EBM artists have used sampling and sequencing to place sounds seemingly disparate into new contexts for a different way of creative thinking and Peaces is operating out of similar aesthetics but updating the sample base and imagining how they might work as a piece of music in the context of his own composition. Sure, DJ Shadow did that in the 90s and Girl Talk took the mashup to glorious new extremes. But with “Down To Earth” Peaces takes bits of popular music that many might dismiss as mainstream fluff and makes it into something experimental, surreal and cool. Watch the psychedelic music video for “Down To Earth” on YouTube and connect with Peaces at the links below.
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