One of my favourite groups, Hot Chip, never failed to astound me with anything they touch and these two reworks are nothing short of amazing. The first is a short little remix of a Stones classic, which easily captures the spirit and warmth of the original, perfect for those kite flying afternoons in the park.
The second is a remix that i’ve been in love with ever since Annie Mac first dropped it a few weeks back on her Radio 1 show. It’s a very uplifting tune with dreamy vocals, searing keys and horse claps. Also check out the Hot Chip Dub and Bird Peterson Remix!
Finally the blog is back rollin & scratchin’ again. While writing this I am listening to Mashed 4 which I was anticipating a tad since the last compilations in the series were pretty cool (having Ajax and even Bang Gang doing mixes). But still I’m not one for Ministry releases and despise them greatly. And yes this one does disappoint; Kissy Sell Out does a nice job but Aston Shuffle’s attempt of mixing the “indie” tracks is fucking dismal. Fuck, I would rather have Steve Aoki take a diarrhea dump in my ear then to listen to _that_ again. Fuck.
Anyway, Stewart Rowell & Louis Gaston make up Streetlife DJs: a UK DJ’ing/production duo sharing between them 30 years of turntable experience. They are compassionate with their music and their attitude is bold: ‘this is the music industry, so we want to entertain’. So, with that being said, they aren’t afraid to mix different genres around. DJ Mag even claiming them to be the UK version of 2 Many DJs.
They recently caught my eye after hearing some fine remixes/edits but what put the icing on the cake was seeing a release of theirs on Kitsune; I knew they had to be special, right? Buy their Kitsune 12″ ‘Gunn Crime’ (a nice adaption of the Peter Gunn theme) from Spank Records.
Back into it. Being at work 6 days a week is tiring. Barely had time to listen to anything new in the past couple of days. One thing that really has caught my attention though is a band out of California called Pocahaunted. Awesome name. They play some amazing psychadelic, ambient folk. Think something along the lines of Magic Markers or Robedoor. Their new album, Island Diamonds, is absolutely fantastic and perfect for those cold nights to lie in bed and fall asleep to.
Next up is a few boys from Melbourne, The Process, who are actually about to drop their next EP and play a couple of shows supporting Mercy Arms when they come down to Melbourne later on this month. May 22nd at Pogo to be precise.
Another Melbourne band, Bachelor Of Arts with my favourite track off last years Signal Receiving EP. I hadn’t seen this posted anywhere and these guys deserve a bit of coverage.
Now heres something that everyone can appreciate. Stumbled upon the RAC (remix artists collective) latest release. It’s the SEGA vs Nintendo EP, and they’ve taken it upon themselves to remix some classis 8 bit tunes. My favourite by far (mostly because its one of my fav games) is the Link to the Past theme remix. Never thought Id hear it like this.
Last up is a track from the French band, Turzi, released last year on Record Makers. Its such a refreshing mix of sounds too. You can hear the French electronica influence, but also splashed with plenty of driving drums and guitar rhythms. I like.
I didn’t take long for Australia (and the UK) to fall in love with the intergalactic foursome that is The Galvatrons. In just under 12 months these synth-bearing mavericks from the future (or past?) have conquered the indie-dance world with their addictive 80’s movie soundtrack melodies and power ballad anthems. They now have a shiny new EP entitled ‘When We Were Kids’ in stores which includes some fun disco hits and a couple of killer remixes. You can catch these interstellar kids playing all over Australia throughout May and then taking on the UK crowds in June and even rocking the O2 Wireless Festival, you show em lads!!
Here’s the always impressive Bag Raiders with their neon remix of ‘When We Were Kids’…
While on the topic of the Bag Raiders who, i’m told, are almost finished with their own debut EP. We have yet another remix of their ever so popular track ‘Fun Punch’, this time by rising Sydney producer Toecutter. He puts a glitchy, hacked up spin on the original while keeping the bounce and fun contained within. Also check out a Toecutteroriginal, which i believe is getting an official release later in the year on Bang Gang 12 inches, it’s a very catchy distorted disco/pop tune which cleverly uses a vocal from Kool and the Gang and turns it into something that can you jive to for hours. This is the extended dub mix, expect the original to be much shortly!
Man I wish I was there…but then uber self-absorbed American douchebags would have wrecked it for me. Please come to Australia so that I don’t have to keep hearing from my dad about how he watched them in Sydney. Even then, it was with Wolfgang! Blast.
All blogs are tré homo, especially music ones with shitty writers who have opinions that are particularly, to put simply, fucking cunty. Ok cunty is not a word. But fuck, i’m apparently an example of my own contention. Please take this into account in the next couple of paragraphs.
If you haven’t caught on yet, i’m just validating what JD wrote. Yeah wow amazing, like pow! Right in the kisser yeah? “fuck you waves” right? No.
I still love this Blog, although its path has gone ‘ash tray’ (sound it out). There is a general idea that if something is good; lets play it fucking heaps! “fuck yeah! justice wow!”
Doing this is killing it. We need to except it was great but to move on to new things. The Ed Banger thing was amazing but by remixing everything to the end of its breath isn’t going to make it come back.
But you know, luckily…the most amazing thing about music is that you can act all fucking cool about it and immediately obtain self-gratification by putting down old genres of music. (Minus Bowie or sonic youth of course) get the hint? do you understand what im trying to tell you?
But then again I could take that all back after listening to the volume III teaser with sebastiAn – Dog. Fuck.
I guess what im trying to say is…
No more jock bullshit! More noise! less music! Lets move away from house, fluro and the French.
Ok, official Brian Jonestown Massacre update. Those of you who have waited so long to catch Anton and whoever the fuck else is backing the band these days, this is your chance:
“2008 Australian Dates Announced!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
27th in Brisbane @ The Arena
29th in Sydney @ The Metro
30th in Melbourne @ The Hi-Fi Bar
Perth and Adelaide…PLEASE forgive us for not coming to visit…we would if we could…It’s hard to convince the right people that it’s worth it if you’re not selling as many records as, say The Divinyls or…Barnsey!!! HOPEFULLY NEXT TIME!!!
NEW ZEALAND!!! IF YOUR READING…CHECK BACK WITH US REAL SOON!!!
ALOHA
BJM”
Ahh. Gush gush gush. I had to rewatch DiG! after hearing the news. Such a good film.
This post is also quite important for zac (oscar milde) and I, as we would like to take this opportunity to officially denounce our faith. Well…at least half of it. I just dont feel it in my bones anymore. Just the saturation of fluorescence and the feeling like I never really hear anything new and fresh. Just the same old processed cheese compressed electro remixes etc etc. I will still always love The Presets, Cut Copy, Daft Punk etc, but I know the end is nigh and feel the need to escape the ‘jockish cult that surrounds the genre’ as Guy Blackman happened to put it. So, hopefully from now on Ill be trying to post as much more diverse sounds as I can for anyone who’s willing to listen and have a chat about what they think. Whether its anything new or just something thats just good. Theres always going to be the occasional DFA track (because I still love them) and Presets remix cos you always have to have something to dance to, huh.
Anyway, thats my rant for the night. So…yeah. Dig, in my humble opinion, the best track off the new album ‘My Bloody Underground’, and get tickets asap whenever they get properly announced.
New Late of the Pier AA-sided single featuring ‘Space and the Woods’ and ‘Focker’ to follow from the success of ‘The Bears are Coming’. ‘Space and the Woods’ is co-produced by Erol and LOTP and is somewhat greatly polished to when we heard it long long ago (the 7″ was out May last year!!). Nevertheless, it’s still kick-ass.
But what makes me just ooze and froth at the mouth is their epic track “Focker”. I tried to find a thesaurus to come up with some other words to describe this track but failed in the search. Ahem, .. so the best I came up with is: specatularadazzlingreatremendoussss. Recorded in the same session with Erol, you know it’s good.
Yeah. It’s Anzac Day and I’m giving props to Frenchies. Well with the news that We Love Sounds is going have Cassius as part of its line-up, along with Mr. Oizo, !!!, Lindstrom (yeahboyz!), The Whip and a Marina-lessBonde do Role, it looks like OneLove have actually done something right. Now for them not to let fluoro kids in their shindigs. My big up to Gallic kids this week is in relation to this, so Philippe Zdar is the man of the hour.
Apart from being uber-producer extraordinaire to artists like MC Solaar, Chromeo and our very own (as in Melbourne) Cut Copy, Mr. Philippe Cerboneschi has produced some tremendous work of his own. In the mid 90’s, his work with Etienne de Crécy under the name of Motorbass was as slammin’ house as slammin’ house could get, but there was still that touch of funk, most notably on the ‘Around the World’ remix.
After meeting Boom Bass whilst producing Solaar’s album, they formed the group Le Funk Mob, which then went on to be Cassius. There is not a week where I don’t listen to 1999. I simply love it. Their body of work over the years has always had that certain sense of now, along with some hip-hop roots.
Im surprised these two tracks haven’t been getting much attention. The KIM edit isn’t bad. Just adds a bit of punch to one of my favorite tracks of the year. The Zombie Nation remix? Well nothing really interesting happens and it just drags on for way too long. Cant wait for the 21st of June though. Anyone else manage to score tickets before they were snapped up in a day?
(In a completely unrelated note: The new Brian Jonestown Massacre album is good. Really, really, really good. I might get around to posting a few tracks when Ive got time.)
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