mayer hawthorne is an interesting beast – a straight crooner that on record invokes black soul/r&b of the 60s with an incredible talent for production, songwriting, and melody. he puts out records on the venerable stones throw, which is basically a carte blanche to do anything and have it turn out great so i’m not super surprised that the music hits so hard.

i am stoked on hist debut album a strange arrangement but even more stoked on the electro slant given to “green eyed love” by LA’s finest classixx. i can’t stop listening to this remix – classix strips away hawthorne’s production leaving only the song intact, pushing it in a completely different yet surprisingly fitting setting.