Mirror’s Edge – Still Alive

I have been playing the game recently on Xbox 360 and found the album of remixes of the theme song on Spotify.

Lisa Miskovsky – Still Alive (The Theme From Mirror’s Edge)- The Remixes

The main theme song from this by Lisa Miskovsky is a really memorable tune and gives the game a real unique feel to it. I especially like the cool piano melody which is really catchy. The rest of the album has some interesteing remixes of the song as detailed below. This isn’t a proper review or anything as I’m no music expert just my thoughts on which ones I liked and which I didn’t.

Armin Van Helden – Not really what I would call normal remix of the orginal song, more like he dropped the oringal song on the floor, smashed it into a million pieces then tried sticking it all back together with crazy glue. At least it is the most adventurous of all the remixes on this album.

Paul Van Dyk – Much more of a traditional remix, doesn’t mess around with the lyrics but does add a fresh new exciting dance beat to it that really sounds good.

Benny Benassi – More of a traditional dance track with parts of the Original Still Alive song and lyrics mixed into the middle. Much more of a new track than a remix of the orginal but still very good and mixes in parts of the original very well.

Junki XI – More of a chilled version, with a relaxed tempo but still retaining the classic piano section which in itself is actually quite chilled out anyway, so fits in here really well.

Teddybears – Is probably closest to the orginal with just a hint of a dance remix to it to give it a mroe upbeat tempo and dance style.

Edit [January 2011] - Spotify have removed the above album from their system which is a shame, I guess you will have to find it from somewhere else to listen to it. However they have now uploaded the Mirrors Edge Original Soundtrack by Solar Fields which includes the Original and Instrumental versions of Still Alive. and you can listen to it via the link below. Enjoy.

Solar Fields – Mirror’s Edge Original Videogame Score

Edit [March 2012] – Here is the same soundtrack but in GrooveShark. Much easier to be able to listen to itin your browser.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/Mirrors+Edge/61877475

 

Aladdin @ Birmingham Hippodrome UK

Went to watch a Christmas pantomime the other day at the Birmingham Hippodrome. First time I have been to one since I was a kid. I knew it would be a show for kids but thought it might be fun anyway. It actually turned out a lot of the humour is aimed at adults while the kids get colourful sets, lots of dancing and singing.

John Barrowman from Doctor Who and Tourchwood was the star and put on a very good performance, and did his best even when his wardrobe let him down a bit and he had to do one scene while holding up his own trousers to prevent them falling down.

However the rest of the cast together made this a great show. The Grumbleweeds, who I had never heard of before, took centre stage doing stand-up comedy to keep the adults entertained and were very funny.

The singing and dancing was as you would expect, not my sort of thing, but it was made more interesting by the dancing girls with very very short skirts and skimpy outfits, which altogether made the dancing much more entertaining.

The best part of the show however was the IMAX style 3D effects. I was hugely impressed  as each time the Genie appeared the back screen was used as a rear projection cinema screen and we all had the 3D glasses. The effects of the 3D were very vivid and caught the attention of the audience very well.

The cross over with Doctor Whoo thanks to Mr Barrowman, was very played to as much as possible but the cameo appearance of the Darleks was great and gave the show a bit of a different edge to it.

Overall a great nights entertainment and I will look forward to seeing another pantomime show again next Christmas.