Monarchy


Monarchy, the British duo with magical power. Now, I don’t exactly remember where I first discovered Monarchy, could’ve easily been the Diamond Cut remix on Discodust. Anyway, the calm dreamish sounds and the romantic pop-hooks mixed with the best vocals I’ve heard since Prince just makes a lovely combination which could even make the pope imagine what it would be like to have sex.

The good thing is for us who still buy records, they’ve released this baby on vinyl called Gold In The Fire/Black the Colour Of My Heart, which you can get through Pure Groove. Just like the golden days.. In the fire.

I’ve thought about the lyrics and the name of the song. They sing “Gold in the fire”, and I figured that has to be a allegory for something you can’t get, you can’t get to that freakin’ gold how much you’d try ’cause you’ll burn your hand and then, fuck, you walk around with a misshaped  hand just because you were to greedy to go for the gold. Lay off the gold man.

Okey enough bullshit, I’m sharing some remixes here of this song in question by We Have Band. And the thing is, this minimal/drums-only version of they made works surprisingly well. The vox of Monarchy just fills that bastard up. the Hidden Cat one sounds almost a bit deep-houseish with that big late-night “slightly drunk-dancing” club feel. The Flak Attack one starts of almost as a minimal techno track but puts out the bigger defining synths later on.

And a remix of blog-love “soon to be on heavy-rotation on MTV” Ellie Goulding by the men themselves Monarchy, which is calm and slow-paced but has a lot of personality, much like a chihuahua.

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Monarchy – Gold In The Fire (We Have Band remix)

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Monarchy – Gold In The Fire (Hidden Cat Remix)

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Monarchy – Gold In The Fire (Flak Attack Remix)

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Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed (Monarchy ‘The Horse Head Nebular’ Remix)