Last night I decided to watch something lite, so I rewatched @pinkfloyd live in Pompeii 1972. It’s one of my all time favorite videos. If you haven’t seen it I HIGHLY recommend it. Mid way through the movie , they played “Set the controls for the heart of the sun” and I remembered that @bedouin_official had done a recent cover in 2017. Pink Floyd Backstory: The title was take from the science fiction Novel, ‘The Fireclown’. The theme of the book is Man’s relationship to and reliance on technology and the role of Government in regard to the truth and the role of the media in distorting that truth. As well as humans and their intelligence and whether that intelligence is really a necessity for survival.The lyrics: Were taken from a book of Chinese poetry from the Tang dynasty, Poems of the late T’ang. Among the borrowed lines from Chinese poetry were those written by Li He, contains the line “Witness the man who raved at the wall as he wrote his questions to Heaven” Li Shangyin, whose poetry contained the lines “watch little by little the night turns around”, “countless the twigs which tremble in dawn” and “one inch of love is one inch of ashes”.It’s one thing to do a cover, but it’s another things to cover by Pink Floyd. It’s Pink Floyd, their music is already timeless. They’re also a psychedelic rock band. It would seem like a real challenge to make a deep house version of a Pink Floyd song, but Bedouin’s version of this track gels the past into with present and meshes both of their styles well because of an overlap in equipment and sound.The original version by Pink Floyd already
has this dark mediterranian-esque melodic feel due to the Farfisa. The Farfsa was a compact electric organ which they used in many of their tracks from the 60s and 70s. Bedouin being true to their name and their roots, incorporate similar sounds into their production.
3 slide: Archival footage- 2018 somewhere in Brooklyn at Bedouin (my 2nd rave ever)What would be some other examples of other tracks that have made the crossover to electronic music?
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