'Artificial Horizon' is here. A limited edition U2 remix album produced for our U2.com subscribers.
Artificial Horizon' is here. A limited edition U2 remix album produced for our U2.com subscribers.
The CD features 13 remixed tracks by some legendary names, stretching from 1997 to the present, from 'If God Will Send his Angels' to 'Get Your Boots On' .
The CD will not be available for sale and will begin shipping to qualifying subscribers in a few weeks time.
Here's the full track-listing.
1. Elevation (Influx Mix)
2. Fast Cars (Jacknife Lee Mix)
3. Get On Your Boots (Fish Out Of Water Mix)
4. Vertigo (Trent Reznor Remix)
5. Magnificent (Falke Radio Mix)
6. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (Live U2360 Remix)
7. Beautiful Day (David Holmes Remix)
8. Starting At The Sun (Monster Truck Remix)
9. Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Danny Saber Mix)
10. Get On Your Boots (Justice Remix)
11. City Of Blinding Lights (Hot Chip 2006 Remix)
12. If God Will Send His Angels (Grand Jury Mix)
13. Starting At The Sun (Brothers in Rhythm Ambient Mix)
U2 have already started the follow-up album to 2009's 'No Line On The Horizon' and promise that is “really special.”
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly at the Golden Globe Awards, The Edge explained that the band have been working on new material in-between legs of their U2 360 World Tour.
“We are working on a lot of new songs. Some of them are really, really happy. We’re convinced that we have something really special," he enthused.
Asked when the record is likely to see the light of day, the guitarist, real name Dave Evans, continued: “It’s like deciding whether we are going to release the album before the tour starts or leave it for a while, we don’t really know yet. Literally, within a day of getting off the road, Bono and I were working on new songs”.
Despite progress being made, The Edge was unsure, adding: “We are experimenting with a lot of different arrangements, and electronic is one of the things we are playing with.
“But there are other songs that are very traditional, almost folk. In some ways, that’s the thing we haven’t figured out yet, is where this album is going to end up.”
U2 reconvene their world tour in Anaheim, Orange County on June 6th.
He is not U2. He is not Bono. Normally, he wouldn't be mentioned on this blog without some kind of connection to U2. Tonight, he connected with me during this chilling rendition of "Hallelujah", for Haiti. The soul of this song is so strong that it reminds me of the connection I feel with U2 music, and for that reason, and for the beauty of the song, and the people of Haiti, I feel compelled to post this video, from Justin Timberlake.
A couple posts about the song Bono and The Edge performed with Jay-Z and Rihanna, during the Hope for Haiti broadcast:
Taken from U2.com:
22 January 2010
Produced by Swizz Beatz and Declan Gaffney, 'Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)' will be performed live tonight from London by Jay-Z, Rihanna, Bono and Edge as part of the 'Hope For Haiti Now' global telethon, produced by George Clooney, Wyclef Jean and MTV Networks.
'Sitting in the studio and watching Haiti hurting, I knew immediately I had to do something,' said Swizz Beatz. 'I reached out to my friends Bono and Jay-Z and asked for their help. Jay and Rihanna sent their vocals and that same night Bono and I went into the studio.' Swizz Beatz added, 'It's important we as a global community all come together to help. Haiti needs us right now.'
The track will be available through iTunes this evening as part of a special package from the 'Hope For Haiti Now' telethon airing at 8pm ET/PT. The relief organizations that will benefit from the telethon and special album are Partners in Health, Oxfam America, the Red Cross, UNICEF, Yele Haiti Foundation, United Nations World Food Program and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Proceeds from Hope for Haiti Now will be split among each organization's individual funds for Haiti earthquake relief.
Photo:Mazur/WireImage
Bono wrote the hook for “Stranded” — his new Haiti benefit single with Jay-Z and Rihanna, which is subtitled either “Haiti Mon Amour” or “Haiti Mi Amore” — while on the phone with producer Swizz Beatz. “The idea of the song is ‘We’re not gonna leave you stranded’ and that’s what the chorus is,” Swizz Beatz tells Rolling Stone. “So me and Bono started going back and forth with ideas, and he was like, ‘You know this word stranded keeps standing out to me’ and I asked him to sing it, and he put me on hold ’cause he’s recording the ideas on a Dictaphone — so he did it there and then on the phone.”
Swizz Beatz got the song started by sending simultaneous texts to Jay-Z and Bono — but when they both called, he accidentally hung up on Jay while trying to conference them. After three hours of phone tag, they all agreed to the project, which came together in geographically scattered sessions, with extra production work by the Edge. “I knew that Jay would be able to tell a story, and that Bono would be able to sing and bring it home. The last component that I added was Rihanna, and she’s kinda like the angel that’s on the track, softening it up and giving it that caring feeling, because this hook is so powerful.”
The song will debut with a live performance on Friday night’s multi-network telethon for Haiti, and will soon be released as a single on iTunes, according to Swizz Beatz.
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