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This new collection of Radiohead covers, “Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads,” is by no means the first crack at covering material from the band’s bravado ’90s output. In fact, albums like “OK Computer” and “Kid A” seem to be entering the standard repertoire: witness jazz pianist Brad Mehldau’s interpretations of “Paranoid Android” and “Exit Music (For a Film),” the namesake of this album.
For this effort, Rapster Records assembled artists who have recorded for the BBE/Rapster family or who are associated in some way with the edgier, more progressive wing of the urban music community. If you’re previously disposed to artists like spiritual-house producer Osunlade (with Eric Roberson aka Erro on a dubby, samba-fied “Everything in Its Right Place”), hip-hop deconstructionist RJD2 (a twisted electro rub of “Airbag”) or Platinum Pied Pipers honcho Waajeed (a pimp-limping “Knives Out” with Monica Blaire), you’ll like what’s here. The Bilal version of “High and Dry” in particular is magnificent.
The remake artists mostly play straight the memorable melodies of these tunes, while flipping the arrangements via their recognizable personal styles. The shaggy-hairs — and many of those for whom these songs were the soundtrack of their ’90s lives — might object strongly. But if you’re like me and dig both Radiohead and, say, Matthew Herbert or Cinematic Orchestra, check it out here.
I’ve chosen to present a version of “Just” by Mark Ronson, son of longtime David Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson and a huge DJ on the commercial hip-hop scene. This isn’t what you’d expect if you know Ronson from his remixes of Outkast and Jay-Z. It’s a greasy funk side that reminds me a lot of the Bristol, England, new funk scene (like Nostalgia 77 and the Quantic Soul Orchestra). Happy listening!
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