Archive for the REMIX! Category
If you take a look at the recently-published list of Time Magazine’s “50 Best Inventions of 2009″, you will find many technologically significant inventions — NASA’s missles, a racing car made entirely out of food, and even a human-powered vending machine. Among these inventions, a surprising (and deserved) addition has appeared: the YouTube remix projects of Israeli musician & composer Kutiman as seen in his prodigious website, ThruYOU. ThruYOU, completed in just two months time, is a sweeping work of musical “found art”, deftly and intelligently remixed into miniature funk masterpieces. Ophir Kutiel, better known to the world as Kutiman, spent weeks searching through YouTube videos of dozens of musicians, primarily amateurs, to find patches of instrumentation and vocals from which he would invent his virtual funk quilt. MORE »
(Editor’s note: this originally appeared on Loudersoft on 4 March 2009. I’ve updated the post to include MP3’s of the tracks so that, hopefully, it will pull people from MP3 search engines to discover Kutiman and his site. It’s definitely my favorite website of 2009 and, without a doubt, one of my favorite experiences of the past decade. If you’re visiting here from The Hype Machine, please be sure to go back and ‘love’ the songs you love by clicking here. Thanks.)
The full story on Thru-You, video and MP3’s after the jump.
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The ephemeral Brooklyn indie pop trio of Annie, Erika, and Heather make up Au Revoir Simone, and if you’re here you’re likely already a fan. Their album Still Night, Still Light
Au Revoir Simone – “Another Likely Story (Social Disco Club Version)”
Those wonderful Dutch ghettotechin’ blip wizardy-wizards in Le Le hit us up today with a perfect hot mess — remixes of a track called “Disco Monster” from their last EP, Marble. Le Le’s super-human electro-insanities and skin-tight grooves can be heard in mixes from Erol Alkan, Busy P, DJ Medhi, and a whole mess of other floor traffic controllers the world over.
If you can get your hands on a copy of this on vinyl, you should: it comes packed in the Parra-designed original sleeve you see above — wait, did you just ask me “Who’s Parra?” Uh, you don’t know? Time to get familiar, since he’s designed stuff for like um.. Nike, Converse, Vans, Etnies, and his art is blowing up in Paris, Berlin and New York. But yeah, okay. Back to the music. Just….enjoy, then, these remixes of “Disco Monster”, and blow them up wherever you may spin.
Le Le – Disco Monster (Original Mix)
Le Le – Disco Monster (Seymour Bits’ Subsonic Monster)
Prince Klassen is one of my favorite DJ / Producer / Remixers in the world at the moment. Roxy Music is one of my favorite bands of all time, a master act of the 1970’s and 80’s who straddled the lines of rock, dance and pop music, led by the inscrutable Bryan Ferry. This re-edit of “Love is the Drug”, nearly a perfect song by our standards, just popped fresh into our inbox. And it’s impressive — another in a series of outstanding edits that Prince Klassen has given us of classic tracks. Like a damn Reeses Peanut Butter Cup, this is two great tastes that taste great together
(From Prince Klassen about this track):
I first heard this tune on Depeche Mode’s 101 tour video in the earlier 90s. I never knew who it was until way later. While ripping vinyl the other day, I thought I would give it a go. The groove and feel of this record is uneffwittable.
Roxy Music – Love is the Drug (Prince Klassen Edit) (124 BPM)
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A new teaser-track which features Michael Jackson singing over a J. Dilla beat appeared yesterday (courtesy of turntablist extraordinaire J. Rocc) on the Stones Throw Records website with a cryptic message –
SHARE MY BED=M.J. & DILLA. TEASER FROM J ROCC.
Share My Bed=M.J. & Dilla 1st track “Player has Butterflies”…wait 4 the rest
The track, by the appropriately named “Dil Jackson”, is entitled “Player Has Butterflies”. We don’t know what “the rest” is, but you can best believe –we’re very intrigued after hearing this track. Grab it from the Stones Throw site here. (HT: @Nialler9)
Last year, I procrastinated heavily. I think there were a lot of good records that came out the last couple of years, but I started to think that for every record that came out, there was an equal number of these “best-of” lists being bandied about. At first I thought, “Wow, it’s finally happened. Everyone’s a music critic.” Then, with this pervasive thought entrenched in my gourd, I started reading these other lists before making my own.
I suddenly felt small.
So deadlines for the “best of 2007″ rolled around, and I was in a tailspin, dogged by the massive amount of music I had encountered. I kept reflecting on these words of Billy Corgan that I’d read years ago. Billy had once quipped to, I think, Rolling Stone, that, “Not every year can be a great, or even good, year in music.” This thought just stirred in my head and fed into some neurosis. The thought actually fucked with me; maybe 2007 wasn’t that great? Or was it? So I slacked until it was way too late to really do it with any fervor.
Newsflash: Shit aint happening like that this year. I’m past all that, and this year’s going to be different.
Near as I can tell, ART WHIPLASH is the 8-bit meanderings of les jeune homme sexy Vincent Jardin. Vincent has created a one-man electro trash outfit in Paris & through his people, he has kindly made this track available to the readers of Loudersoft. The title speaks for itself: “Party, Sex and Bullshit”. If you’re not familiar with what that title means or what to do with it when you say it, this blog update probably won’t help you. However, if you do know, then this song is what you should play the next time you’re doing everything on that list.
Here is the original along with three remixes he has offered. We kinda dig this.
ART WHIPLASH – Party, Sex and Bullshit
ART WHIPLASH – Party, Sex and Bullshit (Youth Attack! Disco and Bullshit remix)
ART WHIPLASH – Party, Sex and Bullshit (THE TOXIC AVENGER Remix)
ART WHIPLASH – Party, Sex and Bullshit (KIWI Remix)
I got a tweet from my boy over at NASDANK about this track which, I guess, Charles Hamilton decided to just one-off to commemorate November 10, 2008. It’s pretty smoking, so I guess you oughta listen to it! NASDANK tells me that this comes straight from Mr. Hamilton himself, so if you’re one of those people combing the nets for “illegal MP3’s”, take it up with Charles. And Charles, if that’s you, I hope reposting this was okay?? Email me if it aint and I’ll get rid of it.
In the meantime, the Hamiltonization process continues…word.
Charles Hamilton – November 10, 2008
(HT: NASDANK)
Well first of all, Qualé? Quite a weekend around here, what with the Convection Monthly at Dish turning into a celebration — Sean O’Daniels and Mr. White tore the house down. It was packed to the rafters for some sweet house music mixed with dirty, funky, nasty ass-shaking techno. So, when this band, Database from São Paulo, Brazil hit my inbox with some crazy disco re-edits, I was feeling a couple of them right away. The first one is a re-edit of Game’s 1982 disco track, “Gotta Take Your Love” and the second is a scorching re-edit of Phyllis Hyman’s 1979 classic “This Feeling Must Be Love”.
From Lucio Morais:
Hello!! Whats up???
So we have some Brand New Re-edits, they should be the preview of UGLYEDIT VOL.2 (2009) and we should release after the album called NOISE FREQUENCY PROCESSOR (2009).
We probably r going to release the album @ May 2009 and we already have a first track preview in our space called LOOPS OF LOVE – http://www.myspace.com/databasetrax (And its not a re-edit, its a original track!)
Database – Gotta Take Your Love (Re-Edit)
Database – This Feeling Must Be Love (Re-Edit)
