Rapper Jim Jones recently linked up with Brooklyn electro-rockers MGMT for a
remix to hit single “Electric Feel.” The remix [click to listen] will be featured on Jim
Jones‘ upcoming album Pray IV Reign.
After meeting MGMT at a show in New York, Jones discussed the idea of a potential remix with the duo.
“They
did a show [at United Palace Theater] up in Washington Heights,” Jim
Jones explained to GQ.com. “The initial conversation was just that it
was an honor to meet them, I think they’re kinna cool. And from there
it lead into me saying, ‘It’d be crazy if I remixed ‘Electric Feel.”
They were like, ‘Yeah, that would be crazy.’ So I said, ‘Let me get the
beats and shit.‘”
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Featured on MGMT‘s first major label album Oracular Spectacular, “Electric Feel” has been remixed and covered by other artists such as Katy Perry and Justice. The song also became a popular mash-up mix by DJ Mighty Mi of High & Mighty fame, combined with Kanye West‘s “Touch The Sky,” billed as “Electric Touch.”
“It’s
a really good-feelin’ song, and—from where we at—when we hear a
good-feelin’ song, we can’t wait to put it in the cars,” Jim Jones told
GQ.com. “We can’t wait to put it in the clubs. Nah mean? Everything is
not about Hip Hop. I’ll do a country song if it sounds good. I’m not
forcing myself on nothin’, but if a record sounds good it sounds good.“
Pray IV Reign is expected to be released next month and aside from his new album Jim Jones has also been working on a new play entitled the Hip Hop Monologues which will premiere in New York this week.
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For Jim Jones‘ full interview with GQ magazine, click here.
