
Kelis has definitely dived headfirst into this mirror ball-tinged reinvention hasn’t she? With her own album, the acid-synth infused, Flesh Tone, finally seeing the official light of day just a couple of weeks ago and the deluge of impending remixes to follow you would think she had enough on her plate. Yet Kelis returns, albeit as a “featured vocalist”, for Benny Benassi’s new single, “Spaceship”, the debut track off his forthcoming album, due out this fall.
But this post isn’t really about Kelis, or Benny for that matter, it’s about Kris Menace. Namely, Kris’s distinct role in turning yet another Dave Guetta-esque thump-thump-bleep track into a shimmering, glossy, night under the swirling stars remix. And the dub version…well it’s even better. Kris wisely does away with Jean-Baptiste’s wannabe will.i.am rapping and also, boldly, strips Kelis’s vocals away leaving only a peppering of “yeah” and “get high”, transforming a grounded, stillborn, facsimile into something truly futuristic and worthy of the name “Spaceship”. I could picture Kelis walking down silver hallways, gazing out some glowing porthole at a far-off galaxy and uttering a very succinct, very deserved, “Yeah”.
Benny Benassi (ft. Kelis) – Spaceship (Kris Menace Dub Remix) (204 kbps)