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Lily Allen's latest CD gets a remix - and you get it for free

Lily Allen and Doctor Rosen Rosen
  Ms. Allen, the Doctor will remix you now.

The producer known as Doctor Rosen Rosen has remixed Lily Allen's latest album, “It's Not Me, It's You,” in its entirety and made it available as a free download. Re-titled as well as remixed, “It's Not Me, It's Doctor Rosen Rosen” uses all 12 of Allen’s original vocal tracks, but replaces everything else with his own dreamy, ambient and sometimes spooky elements. The resulting album has a completely different feel from Allen’s buoyant, sassy pop.

You can grab the entire album at Doctor Rosen Rosen’s web site, where you’ll be asked to enter an email eddress. An email with the download link arrives in your in-box moments later.

In a statement on his site, Doctor RR recalls seeing Lily Allen for the first time in 2006 while on tour in Iceland, when he caught her video for the song "Smile" on the TV “in a crappy hotel room." A few days later, seeing a poster of Allen in a London record store, he picked up her debut record “and went home to New York a fan.”

A respected L.A.-based producer, the Doctor has remixed artists in the past, like Department of Eagles, Britney Spears and Chris Cornell and most recently, Phoenix’s new hit, "Lisztomania."

As he goes on to explain in his statement, DRR reached out to Allen’s US record label upon the release of her second album “to see if they were commissioning any remixes... no dice. Lily was, however, releasing all of the parts to all of the songs on the album so anyone could remix them. Brilliant. I knew I had to remix the whole album.”

Responding to Allen’s “knack for pairing bouncy music with not-so-bouncy lyrics,” the Doctor’s stated goal was to “see what would happen if I placed Lily's voice and lyrics into new musical landscapes that were a complete departure from the original recordings.” So Rosen Rosen stripped away the original upbeat production style of Greg Kurstin (who, BTW, is one half of the brilliant electro-pop duo, The Bird and The Bee) and replaced it with a “darker/dreamier tone.” He single-handedly produced, composed, and mixed all of the music on the CD, mixing the natural sounds of piano, strings and horns with electronic synth washes, deep bass and ambient atmospheres. (BTW, The remix album, like Allen's original, carries an “Explicit” warning for dropping the F-bomb.)

While you're at Doctor Rosen Rosen's web site, you can also click to retweet a message he's composed to Lily Allen, calling her attention to the remix album and seeking her feedback.

For more info: http://www.myspace.com/drrosenrosenmusic

 

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In her long career as a freelance writer, Marianne Meyer has written music and arts previews and features for The Washington Post, New York Times,...

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