I’ve never really been able to go past a Joakim edit or remix before, he always seems to keep producing these epic pieces of music that captivate you over and over again, from his creeping rendition of Cut Copy’s ‘Hearts On Fire’ to the italo disco remix of ‘A Mountain for President’.
Here are two more masterpieces; the first Joakim edit you might recognise from such mixtapes as Hoodrat’sFinger Prince part 2, it makes a sneaky appearance at the beginning. The second remix, for Max Berlin, is an incredibly chilled out little synth journey with beautiful subtle vocals to match.
While keeping with the chilled out, laid back, disco vibe i thought i throw a couple more tracks at you. First one is from legends of the genre, Linstrom & Prins Thomas, with something very mild and trippy. The second and final track is from Tracey Thorn who has one of the most amazing voices of recent times. She’s had the remix treatment from non other than Hot Chip & Beyond the Wizards Sleeve and now she’s been sex’d up by 16 piece disco band Escort from Brooklyn, NY.
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.
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