He adds random found sounds to his version like snippets of phone rings, a harmonica track and a woman mumbling words in German. He somehow managed to makeit even more uplifting, almost gleeful. Mariah Carey created 'Fantasy' as a remix and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Fivemade 'It's Nasty'.įast forward 29 years and the Tom Tom Club is releasing a tribute to the tune, it comes out today, and it's called 'Genius of Live.' The albumfeatures select tracks from their 'Live at the Clubhouse' album along with recent remixes of the song created by lesser known artists like the Latin-fusion band Ozomatli, the electronic dance musician Senor Coconut, and Money Mark - he's the guy who came up with the familiar keyboard phrase that opens and underpins Beck's hit ' Where It's At.' Money Mark's remix of 'Genius' was, well, genius. Public Enemy, Tupac Shakurand T.I.have all used snippets of the track. The rhythms in Tom Tom Club's upbeat 1981 hit made 'Genius' a hip hop sampling favorite too. Back in 1995, when I was twelve, Mariah Carey'shit 'Fantasy'was playing on every Top 40 station and I was choreographing dance routinesto it with my friends. The first time I heard the Tom Tom Club's song 'Genius of Love'off their eponymous debut album Ithought 'Hey, that's Mariah Carey's song.' Turns out I was only half-right.
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