{"id":1747,"date":"2009-12-10T11:16:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T18:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2014-02-02T08:43:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T15:43:51","slug":"x-static-ready-2-go-metropolis-remix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1747","title":{"rendered":"X-Static &#8211; Ready 2 Go &#038; Metropolis Remix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Mark for pointing me to this single,  I previously had bought an earlier EP by X-Static  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/X-Static-Free\/release\/80354\">Free<\/a>) and, though it was good, it wasn&#8217;t a personal favorite or anything. This track is truly awesome though. All the usual crowd pleasing parts of a 92 tune (diva vocal + hiphop vocal + hardcore melody + crowd sample + nicely layered breaks) combined exceptionally well to form a total dancefloor killer, as you would expect from the Production House crew. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/X-Static-X-Static-EP\/release\/78493\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/x-static.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<i>DL link removed since it&#8217;s now for sale on juno&#8230; go buy it here!<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.junodownload.com\/products\/the-best-of-x-static\/1490689-02\">X-static &#8211; Ready 2 Go (Juno.co.uk)<\/a><Br><\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, here&#8217;s a rare US remix of &#8220;Ready 2 Go&#8221; from a Metropolis comp. I can&#8217;t say it really adds much to the track,  more something for the obscurity heads  plus anyone who has heard the original a sufficient number of times to want to hear an alternate version.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Various-Metropolis-0011\/release\/800376\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/metropolis_11.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/X-Static - Ready 2 Go (Metropolis Mix).mp3\">X-Static &#8211; Ready 2 Go (Metropolis Mix)<\/a><Br><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1747-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/X-Static%20-%20Ready%202%20Go%20(Metropolis%20Mix).mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/X-Static%20-%20Ready%202%20Go%20(Metropolis%20Mix).mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/X-Static%20-%20Ready%202%20Go%20(Metropolis%20Mix).mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Mark for pointing me to this single, I previously had bought an earlier EP by X-Static (Free) and, though it was good, it wasn&#8217;t a personal favorite or anything. This track is truly awesome though. All the usual crowd pleasing parts of a 92 tune (diva vocal + hiphop vocal + hardcore melody&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1747\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">X-Static &#8211; Ready 2 Go &#038; Metropolis Remix<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,239,238],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-4","tag-acen","tag-production-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6180,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/6180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}