Chilling With The House Of Pain

Back in the day a song was simply a song. If you liked it, you listened to it and, if you didn’t like it, well then you didn’t listen to it. Then the remix came along and changed everything. Songs started getting house mixes, chilled out smooth groove mixes and of course hip-hop mixes and artists you had never given the time of day to before you would all of a sudden find yourself listening to. I could go on for hours about this but, to cut a long story short, there have always been, and always will be, good and bad remixes and really all I wanted to talk about was how amazing the Pete Rock remix of House of Pain’s Jump Around is. Whether you like the original or not, there’s no disputing it’s one of hip-hop’s finest party anthems so for Pete Rock to have conjured up a remix which blasted it out of the water was no mean feat. Everything about the Pete Rock version – the intro, the beats, the verse he throws in for good measure and the groove – are just so good I don’t even know how to begin to comment on them. Whenever a DJ drops this joint wherever it is, within five seconds you can bet your bottom dollar the crowd will be going crazy so go dig this out and remind yourself and good it is as remixes don’t get much better.