{"id":1208,"date":"2006-11-26T21:57:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T02:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.com\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2006-11-26T21:57:32","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T02:57:32","slug":"regrooved_chris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/regrooved_chris\/","title":{"rendered":"re-grooved christmas tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/christmas_remix.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full\" title=\"Christmas_remix\" alt=\"Christmas_remix\" src=\"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/christmas_remix.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a>If you want to add a little extra funk to your festivities this season, I recommend this hip mix of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Christmas-Remixed-Holiday-Classics-Re-Grooved\/dp\/B0000DC3TL\/sr=1-2\/qid=1164595387\/ref=sr_1_2\/002-5126743-0943260?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music\">holiday grooves<\/a>.&nbsp; One of my favs is <span style=\"color: #cc0033;\">Happy Holidays<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what they&#8217;re saying about it&#8230;&quot;Dance music is all about the remix, and no genre is safe. As proof, San Francisco&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixdegreesrecords.com\/home.php\">Six Degrees Records<\/a> have loosed a ragtag band of DJs upon that venerable institution, the Christmas classic. As one might suspect, the kitsch\/fun factor is off the charts. &quot;Baby It&#8217;s Cold Outside,&quot; for instance, lounges comfortably beside any exotic, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Les Baxter <\/span>-style oddity, as Louis Armstrong&#8217;s crackly vocals meet a slow breakbeat snare drum. Meanwhile, Beef Wellington fashions a swinging beat around Crosby&#8217;s &quot;Happy Holidays,&quot; and successfully mixes it with the song&#8217;s jaunty horn section.&nbsp; Still, even if you believe some wax simply shouldn&#8217;t be tampered with, this collection offers a giddy abundance of holiday cheer.&quot; <em>&#8211;Matthew Cooke<\/em> <\/p>\n<div id=\"flaresmith\" class=\"feedflare\"><script src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~s\/http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/catchingfireflies\/TyNo?i=http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/regrooved_chris\/\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div><div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/regrooved_chris\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 944859;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to add a little extra funk to your festivities this season, I recommend this hip mix of holiday grooves.&nbsp; One of my favs is Happy Holidays. Here&#8217;s what they&#8217;re saying about it&#8230;&quot;Dance music is all about the remix, and no genre is safe. As proof, San Francisco&#8217;s Six Degrees Records have loosed a ragtag band of DJs upon that venerable institution, the Christmas classic. As one might suspect, the kitsch\/fun factor is off the charts. &quot;Baby It&#8217;s Cold Outside,&quot; for instance, lounges comfortably beside any exotic, Les Baxter -style oddity, as Louis Armstrong&#8217;s crackly vocals meet a slow breakbeat snare drum. Meanwhile, Beef Wellington fashions a swinging beat around Crosby&#8217;s &quot;Happy Holidays,&quot; and successfully mixes it with the song&#8217;s jaunty horn section.&nbsp; Still, even if you believe some wax simply shouldn&#8217;t be tampered with, this collection offers a giddy abundance of holiday cheer.&quot; &#8211;Matthew Cooke<\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 944859;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-to-groove-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}