Oscar Smit, the host of the online radio show Beautiful Extremes, has a fascination with Christmas music. Not with the average Christmas tracks you hear on the radio each year, but with obscure tracks from all around the world. For the compilation Christmas Cover Up he made a selection of those lesser-known tracks and asked comtemporary artists from Holland and Belgium to cover them. ‘The result is a wonderful mix of old and new songs, wrapped in a stylish 21st century cover, proving that the perfect Christmas song is timeless’, Oscar Smit says in the press release.
Narrominded artists Hunter Complex and Spoelstra also made a contribution. Hunter Complex covers the track Christmas 4 AM Alone by the Dutch singer-songwriter Specs Hildebrand; Spoelstra covers Space Christmas by the Japanese girlband Shonen Knife. The Christmas Cover Up cd is available at Bol.com and Free Record Shop and digitally via iTunes and Spotify. Click here for the full tracklisting. Preview the Hunter Complex track in the player below.
The release of the cd will be celebrated with two presentations:
- Thursday December 23 2010: Storing, Haarlem, with Hunter Complex, Spoelstra, Cloudmachine, We Cook With Fire, DJ Oscar
- Friday December 24 2010: Paradiso, Amsterdam with Hunter Complex, Cloudmachine, Jaap Boots & de Natte Honden, Roald van Oosten & band, Specs Hildebrand, We Cook With Fire, DJ Santjan
Oscar Smit played the track Christmas 4 AM Alone by Hunter Complex in his online radio show Beautiful Extremes, broadcasted December 7 2010. Listen to the show in the player below. Hunter Complex is first track.
Beautiful Extremes (07-12-2010) by Studio 80
