pet shop boys - go west (ming's gone west: second movement)

i heard the original as a kid watching mtv and i liked the song and i've been a fan of the pet shop boys work since then. i didn't know the lyrical significance of it when i was younger but i quickly found out since everyone kept referring to it as the gay song.

fact is that i've already gone on record saying that i don't care and in most respects homosexuals do the best music and the most groundbreaking music. to put it in a recent hip-hop meme (and a really stupid one might i add): yes homo. i'm into women and never been tempted onto the same sex in that manner, but yes homo.

anyhow the original had this part in the end, right after the orchestral coda where it went into this nice trancy house thing. when i was younger it was called "the techno part" but i always loved that part of the song but it was too short. my heart leaped with joy about twelve years ago when i found the extended mix on filesharing program kazaa.

i used to always download the longest versions and henceforth i found it's existence and a few years later when i got into buying music again, i eventually bought the cd single with the remixes of "go west". the version that quickly got my attention was the "ming's gone west" version done by brothers in rhythm. they did additional work on the original track which ended up being the version landing on the video, single and album and they did a separate remix which they did under their ming moniker.

it's a two-parter where it plays fairly like the original for the first half but the second half is much more interesting. it breaks down and starts again and you hear the synth melodies and bass rhythms sounding like that end part of the original. it now is much more like how the brothers in rhythm would imagine it and they get creative with it and add an electric piano and expands on the general theme.

i love this part of the remix and it's a pity that it's only five minutes since seaman and anderson pours in so many new ideas into the track. there is really a sense of a 10 minute brothers in rhythm epic lying there in a compact form. but i don't lay awake at night wanting that as it's current state is great as it is and what i always wanted. sort of..

listen here (youtube)

also i find it weird that i'm doing an entry about this one rather than "being boring" which is one of my all time favourite songs, but i don't know what to say else than "i love this track so much".