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3.8 ( 23 total votes )
K-Salaam & Beatnick - Never Can Say Goodbye (Remix) ft. Michael Jackson
Artist: K-Salaam & Beatnick
Featuring: Michael Jackson
Producer: K-Salaam & Beatnick
Album: Unreleased
Label: VP Records
After impressing DJBooth.net readers with their remixes of classic Common tracks (which gave rise to an entire Common remix album), up-and-coming producers K-Salaam & Beatnick have turned their attentions on the “King of Pop” himself. The duo’s latest remix finds them revamping Michael Jackson‘s 1971 hit Never Can Say Goodbye, a soulful cut from the singer’s early days with the Jackson 5. Though this update forgoes the cooed backing vocals that lent emotional heft to the original record, the remix makes up the difference in musical complexity; surrounding Jackson’s voice with electronic ambience as well as vivid, ‘70s-style instrumentation, K-Salaam and Beatnick’s arrangement is both modern and undeniably retro. Is this the beginning of a new remix series from the Minneapolis producers? We’ll have to wait and see…
This song first appeared on the
Independent Chart
on January 12, 2009
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 2130 |
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MINNEAPOLIS STAND UP! THIS IS CLASSIC JUST LIKE THE ORIGINAL! I can really dig it! I agree...some of the background vocal emotion is gone, but this is a fresh remix with a funky twist! CERTIFIED BANGER!
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| Posted on Jan 09, 2009 |
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can i say i love when tha producers use mjs samples man i love it so soulful,but i love sampleing peroid lol!!!
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| Posted on Jan 09, 2009 |
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This is so smooth! Love the samples this is hot. This is hot!
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| Posted on Jan 09, 2009 |
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Michael Jackson huh?...well, i didn't grow up in that time so for me, I don't appreciate his older music as much as you all might but it was good i ain't gonna lie. AND when i rate a 2 star I'm not saying it's bad at all even though it might look like that. It's ok.
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| Posted on Jan 09, 2009 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 4267 |
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Yeah WOW like u i also didn't grow up in that time so this is the first time im hearin this joint .... this is ok ... not bad but also nothing that grips me .... though MJ rocks!!!
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| Posted on Jan 09, 2009 |
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Tastemaker Total Ratings: 4267 |
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maybe i should go & check out the Original Version .....
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| Posted on Jan 09, 2009 |
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This track is tight. Production was very well done. And you can't go wrong with MJ on a track
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| Posted on Jan 09, 2009 |
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 11684 |
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I wouldn't call this a classic (cough, MH, cough)... BUT... K and Beatnik always do their classical song remixes proper justice.
Go back and listen to the original - then come back to the Booth and share your thoughts! 
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| Posted on Jan 09, 2009 |
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This a very different and classic. Im really feeling the begginning to the end. Ripcity Banger.
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| Posted on Jan 09, 2009 |
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these guys deserve props for even attempting this and ever more props for pulling it off and it being good! keeping a good eye on these two
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| Posted on Jan 09, 2009 |
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This is BaDD...
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| Posted on Jan 09, 2009 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 213 |
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I've been listening to these guys since Commmon's remixes, and I like the way they put a new twist on songs. This isn't a classic, but it's pretty good. I agree that some of the emotion of the background vocals isn't here, but I wanna see if they keep going with Michael Jackson remixes. I'll give it a 3.5 out of 5
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| Posted on Jan 10, 2009 |
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Good flow, Great remix. enjoyed it thoroughly. Didn't really grow up with the jackson 5 he was already white when I was listening to MJ tapes lol.
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| Posted on Jan 10, 2009 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 161 |
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Resfreshing tracks here today.I am feeling the booth.
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| Posted on Jan 10, 2009 |
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THI SIS OK. BUT NOT MY TASTE . SO I PASS.
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| Posted on Jan 11, 2009 |
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this song is aight
i like the tittle the guy soung like he little but i like it |
| Posted on Jan 11, 2009 |
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If you havent heard the original, you need to go study up on your early MJ.. Just cause i like K-Salaam and Beatnik and I definitely like MJ(nh)Ima give it 4stars
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| Posted on Jan 11, 2009 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 17 |
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this really remix is truly justice to the original bringing an old classic to a new generation
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| Posted on Jan 11, 2009 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 3212 |
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I don't like this kind of songs, they have the power to really annoy me. Sorry
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| Posted on Jan 11, 2009 |
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MAN THIS IS HEAT!!!!!
CLASSIC BABY!!! |
| Posted on Jan 11, 2009 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 424 |
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Michael Jackson... way too good for me
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| Posted on Jan 12, 2009 |
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| Posted on Jun 28, 2009 |
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great song ... :D
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| Posted on Jul 11, 2009 |
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i love it-got me groovin!!
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| Posted on Aug 17, 2010 |
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DJ Booth Member Total Ratings: 8863 |
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DOPE!!!!
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| Posted on Oct 06, 2012 |
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