Last night (10/19) I went to check out Z-Trip, who sold out Studio B in Brooklyn during busy CMJ week, and the DJ totally rocked it. As with his San Francisco concert a couple of months back at the Independent he again broke out the drum kit and between DJ'ing played some mean drums on the full drum kit - with a set, in the true Z-Trip tradition, that was as much (if not more) classic rock than hip-hop including his ever popular rendition of Rush's Tom Sawyer remix (included on the recent Z-Trip All Pro Soundtrack- Decon) .
But the classic rock track that Z-Trip dug up and remixed live for the energetic twenty-something crowd that got everyone going the most crazy was Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody - which got everyone going audibly wild to the point that it was like he was breaking out the hottest new record of the moment ; amazing considering the Freddie Mercury-penned song was released (on the 1975 album A Night At The Opera) before most in the house were even born. Of course the song never really went away - constantly popping up in pop culture including back in the 90's in Wayne's World and on jukeboxes and radio stations to this day.
Bohemian Rhapsody is a truly brilliant piece of music: one that can transcend time and genres and always remain fresh sounding - even if it is the Manualist doing his (fart sounding) microphone rigged sweaty-hand version (below along with Waynes World plus an a capella rendition by the UC Men's Octet.
Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is indeed a timeless piece of music - like a night at the opera with the dramatic story-line covering near every emotion and feeling in its dramatic few minutes. Besides the music being so powerful, even if you didnt know what it was about you would love it, but those lyrics.....they just pull you in. "mama I just killed a man" is the one that catches people off guard when they first hear it and just pulls them in from there.....Modern classical!