Though we didn’t call it out here on LxNxM, this past Wednesday was the 9th anniversary of the untimely death of Aaliyah. A lot of tributes were floating around out there, and I wanted to haul one of them out before the week wraps up.
This here is DJ Still Life’s Tropicaaliyah, which – as the name suggests – takes the chanteuse, and remixes her through some updated and, dare they say it, tropical perspectives. It’s a concept that could easily fall flat and sound terrible, but Still Life pulled this one off. Not that I would trade these for the originals, but they do what a remix should do, and that’s to draw a new energy from an existing song.
In that light, it’s a success, and it’s a testament to a great artist that her work stands the test of time and changing tastes.
H/T to First Up, and Swedes all around the world for the look.
