New
a live set I played in 2007
best downtempo track
ambient/downtempo
but really Phon is about experimental beats and arrangements }:-]|
techno/electronica/idm Earliest work and probably most "finished"
(track one of bSides is poorly produced)
my current favourite work - though rough around the edges
"remixes the beatles"
a recent attempt with some interesting ideas
"peaceful sinerave"
a recent ambient attempt - not up to standard with the old work
The best stuff is my early stuff "clatterbang" and "acidphon"
enjoy

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Reviews for "phon - beatles are dead"
29 reviews
Les Beatles sont mort ok, mais vous, vous verrez jamais le jour!
pourquoi mêler "ça" à ce que fut les beatles ????
bon , d'accord , ils ont mal vieillis , mais quand même ...
cela aurait pu être "écoutable " sans cette innommable envie de filiation ...
Look, if you're going to say you're remixing anything, you should probably remix it.
Making a few electronic songs, naming them after songs made by the beatles, and calling it a remix is nothing short of a scam using their name to boost your plays.
Pas mal pour faire du buzz d'appeler son album "remixes the beatles", de pasticher une de leur jaquette et de créer ce genre de sons...
Sans vouloir être conservateur, ou obtu d'esprit, personne ne devrait accoler à son nom celui des Beatles (d'autant plus craignos sur un site de musique libre. Surtout pour marquer en gros Beatles are dead... Ils ne sont pas morts, puisque toutes les musiques actuelles découlent d'eux, et que bien des artistes s'en réclament sans pour autant faire de pâles copies. Ils vivent donc au travers de leurs nombreux héritiers !
Je trouve ça irrespectueux, sans parler de la musique en elle même, car ce n'est pas mon style donc forcément je n'accorche pas...
Glitchy unpredictable percussion draws the focus away from the minimalistic melodic elements. My favourite album by phon so far.
I give you ten, not especially because i like your music (althought it's interesting), but for the concept. It reminds me this painting of Magritte, you know the one with the pipe, called "ceci n'est pas une pipe".
I give you ten because, with your music, you're opening a way to a new listening, I mean what you tell is (this is my understanding)- Are you able to be free, to open you ears to something new, to be a child and to welcome the life....
That's what i like :-)
Thank you.
These remixes are amazing. I love the way the artist treated these legendary compositions. Everyone tries to play the Beatles "with respect" and the covers are inferior. But Phon does not have any complexes, he approached these masterpieces with an empty --- err, I mean open --- mind and he won!
I love so many ideas on this album. On "Yesterday" I love heavy guitars and growling in choruses - very surprising in a song that was once a ballad. Use of a symphonic orchestra in "Day in a life" may seem a bit strange firstly, but as the track unfolds, you begin to comprehend and appreciate the idea that Phon asked musicians to swap their instruments for this one session. On "Come together" mixing John's & Paul's voices with Britney Spears' "Ooops I did it again" was just another master's move. You feel this tune should have always sounded this way! Yodelling on "Helter Skelter" fits perfectly the awkward German language version of lyrics, autotranslated with Babelfish. The choir of drunken Afghan talibs is a great counterpoint to Lennon's piano played on fast forward on "Eleanor Rigby". I also like their funny English accents and how they replaced "Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door" with "Waits at the window, keeping the head of George W. in a jar by the door". I could go on like this for an hour, there are so many fresh concepts here, giving the listener fresh look on these thousand-times heard songs.
One thing I didn't like is replacing the original vocal line with an opera-singing on "Yellow Submarine". But maybe that's because I don't like opera.
So, to summarize: Everybody! Please welcome Phon, the remixing master!
And I'm waiting for the followup album: "Phon the Rolling Stone" with his versions of Satisfaction, Angie and so on... Maybe with a guest appearance by Kokkaljos? I'm asking for too much, I know...
I'm not sure if it's meant to be a joke or something, but there is absolutely no trace of the beatles here. I know they're supposed to be remixes, but they've been remixed into entirely different songs which don't resemble the songs they're meant to at all.
That said, it's not half bad. You certainly are talented, and have created some good tunes. They're just not what it says on the tin.
On dirais un générateur de son électronique.
Sinon,je vois pas le rapport avec le titre et la pochette de l'album.
Beatles Neubearbeitung - toll! Hab ich mir sofort angeschaut und reingezogen! Ehrliche Meinung von mir: Das sind keine Beatles Neubearbeitungen, das sind Beats mit mit viel zu langen Übergängen und keinen Anektoten!!! Tut mir leid, dass ich das sagen muss, aber ich frage mich, was die Lieder mit dem Albumtitel zu tun haben!