2 priceless electro covers

was looking through some old stuff for a friend today, when I came upon these two gems..

The first one is a cover of Frank Zappa's controversial song Bobby Brown by Queen of Japan from 2001. Yeah I know, when it's not sung by Zappa it's not the same anymore, but nevertheless this is a cheerful and uptempo electro cover by Mr. Platzgummer, and the vocals seem like r&b now.

Bobby Brown by Queen of Japan (Zappa cover)

Bobby Brown by Frank Zappa

White Horse by Queen of Japan

The second one is Manekin by DMX Krew, and it's a cover of Kraftwerk's Showroom Dummies with Japanese vocals. Ed DMX is THE weird analog electro guy from Rephlex, who has been into electro when anything remotely electro was ridiculed as shit. His enthusiasm as an electro pioneer has made electro a respectable genre (no i don't mean electro-house, that's still highly unrespectable), and who else deserves the title of pioneer but ol' Ed.

Download Manekin by DMX Krew

(Kraftwerk cover)
Ext. download DJ Mix by DMX Krew on Listoplay mp3blog.
Watch an excerpt from a DMX Krew live (mov)

PS : Ok, the post was over, but this last song has found an association in my head. Here's an even less known Kraftwerk cover from an obscure compilation, by a guy named Hikashu, he's singing The Model in Japanese over his version. Silly!

Download The Model by Hikashu (Kraftwerk cover)

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