Romantic Rights (Erol Akan’s Love From Below Re-Edit) – Death From Above 1979

My knowledge of this particular remixer consisted of his amazing remix of Franz Ferdinand’s Do You Want To and that he did that thing with Boys Noize (which was also pretty damn amazing). After researching (scourged for all his remixes and wikipedia’d the man), I discovered a couple of interesting things about this guy; he makes some crazy good, headbanging electronic remixes of indie artists (Bloc Party, Klaxons, Interpol and more) and produced the Late of the Pier record. For the second feat alone, I applaud him, it is quite a marvelous record. But that’s not why we are here, his remix of Death From Above is fantastic. Their aren’t words which can give this remix justice, but it’s basically just chopped up heavy, funky bass lines with some great build-ups.

Romantic Rights (Erol Akan’s Love From Below Re-Edit) – Death From Above 1979

Bonus: Waves – Erol Alkan & Boys Noize

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Studying, Revising and Reaching a Higher Level – Part 2

This is another edition of Studying, Revising and Reaching a Higher Level (the first can be found here). The title explains exactly what kind of music this post is all about.

Modular Mix – Air
You’ve Got The Love (The XX Remix) – Florence and the Machine
Ribbons – Four Tet
Feeling Kind of Anxious – Franz Ferdinand
Kiss Of Life (Spiral Into The Storm remix) – Friendly Fires
Kids With Guns (Hot Chip remix) – Gorillaz
This Could Be Beautiful (It Is) – Metronomy
Love Like A Sunset Part I – Phoenix
メトロノーム – toe
Divebomb – The Whip

The playlist zipped.

Thanks to the picture Andrew Eglinton.

Epic Dance

Tomorrow is the first time I’m helping organize music for a party (a friend’s 18th birthday), which will probably involve some alcohol, and hopefully (if all goes well), a lot of dancing. I have a couple of different playlists for different styles; pop, indie, my favourite stuff and my “pure” dance music (house, techno etc.). I blended these to form this gigantic mix which, as earlier stated, is an attempt to get those kids dancing. Comments, and more importantly; any recommendations? Thanks. Oh and enjoy the mp3s attached.

The Rockafeller Skank    Fatboy Slim
Put Your Hands Up For Detroit    Fedde Le Grand
Everytime We Touch (Radio Mix)    Cascada
Dance Wiv Me (Calvin Harris Extended Mix)    Dizzee Rascal
I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim Mix)    Groove Armada
1234 (Vanshe Technologic Remix)    Feist
We Are Your Friends Who Kissed A Girl (Funky Motherfuckerz Mash)    Justice vs. Katy Perry
Bonkers    Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden
Bittersweet Electric Sky Touch (GlowTape!’s String Cheese Mash Up)    The Verve VS MGMT & Justice VS Kanye West & Lupe Fiasco
Day ‘N’ Nite (Crookers Remix)    Kid Cudi
Beat Connection    LCD Soundsystem
Music Sounds Better With You    Stardust
One More Time to Pretend (Immuzikation Remix)    MGMT vs Daft Punk
D.G.A.F.L.Y.F -  Super Mash Bros.
Testarossas For Everyone!    Super Mash Bros.
Still Fond    Cut Off Your Hands
Photobooth    Friendly Fires
Little Bit (AutoErotique Bootleg Remix)    Lykke Li
Watch The Tapes    LCD Soundsystem
human after all    Daft Punk
Electric Feel    MGMT
Never Miss A Beat (cut copy remix)    Kaiser Chiefs
Lights And Music (Boys Noize Happy Birthday Remix)    Cut Copy
I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (The Twelves Remix)    Black Kids
The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance    Vampire Weekend VS Miike Snow
Hearts On Fire    Cut Copy
As Above, So Below (Justice Remix)    Klaxons
The Geeks Were Right (The Disco Villains Remix)    The Faint
We Are Technologic (LightsoverLA Re-Mash)    Daft Punk vs. Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Cheap and Cheerful (SebastiAn Remix)    The Kills
Banquet (Boys Noize Remix)    Bloc Party
Woman (MSTRKRFT Remix)    Wolfmother
Do You Want To (Erol Alkan Remix)    Franz Ferdinand
Daft Punk Is Playing In My House (Soulwax Shibuya Re-Remix)    LCD Soundsystem
Bigmouth Strikes Again (David Starfire Remix)    The Smiths
Let There Be Lite    Justice
Sleepyhead (Neo Tokyo Remix)    Passion Pit
Kids (Soulwax Nite Version)    MGMT
Monster (Original Version)    Parov Stelar
Get Innocuous (Soulwax Remix)    LCD Soundsystem
Mercury (CSS Remix)    Bloc Party
Ulysses Mr Vega Extended Remix    Franz Ferdinand
Drop The Pressure    Mylo
Waters Of Nazareth    Justice
Focker (Boys Noize Terror Remix)    Late Of The Pier
seven RAVE nation army     Alphabeat vs. The Futureheads
Bounce (The Disco Villains Remix)    MSTRKRFT
All That She Wants (The Disco Villains Remix)    Ace Of Base
Sex Machine (Original Mix)    ReSeT!
Krack    Soulwax
Move My Body (Original Version)    Tiga
D.A.N.C.E. (Live Version)    Justice
Standing On The Shore (Dirty Disco Youth Remix)    Empire Of The Sun
Dirty Harry (The Disco Villains Remix)    Gorillaz
Washing Up (Tiga Mix)    Tomas Andersson
Hustler    Simian Mobile Disco
Dolami    Sebastian
Rave Is King (Le Castle Vania Remix)    Fukkk Offf
Jokin’ Jay z (Remixed by Don Rimini)    Jay z Feat. Don Rimini
We Just Came to Get the Party Started (Night Drugs Remix)    The Disco Villains
Death Suite (Bobermann Remix)    Erol Alkan & Boys Noize
Phantom II (Boys Noize Unreleased Turbine)    Justice
Love Me Hate Me Kiss Me Kill Me    Fukkk Offf
Right Here Right Now (Trumpdisco Remix)    Fatboy Slim
Xtatic Truth (Xtra loud Mix)    Crystal Fighters
We Are Your Friends (The Disco Villains Remix)    Justice

Thanks for the great picture Andor.

Not Made for Love (Astronomer Remix) – Metronomy

Alex Egan (aka Astronomer) got chucked on the rather mediocre new EP from Metronomy, but it’s definitely the highlight. Astonomer speeds up the track and makes it a lot more fun. To be honest, his interpretation of Not Made For Love actually sounds like something off Metronomy’s second album, which is most certainly a good thing.  And why not throw in his recent remix of Basic Space by The XX? Not as good the original, but not half bad either.

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Standing On The Shore (Dirty Disco Youth Remix) – Empire Of The Sun

I saw this on Disco Demons and I had to share. Most remixes I download are pretty boring, but this immediately caught my attention. Starting with a chopped up version of the main riff, it moves into some solid electronica. As soon as you start getting bored Dirty Disco Youth moves it all the way back to a clean version of the original. A great take on Empire of the Sun.

Standing On The Shore (Dirty Disco Youth Remix)

Back From Nothing

I went on an unplanned “holiday” from this blog. However, this was hardly a holiday since I was actually home for a lot of it. So what I’m trying to say is that there is no real reason I stopped posting, it’s just once you fall into the cycle of not posting, it just continues. The motivation was there, I just got a bit stuck on Day 2 of Southside. I’m back and I think I will be staying, it’s just so much fun writing, receiving feedback and hopefully getting people to listen to music they haven’t heard yet. This post contains a couple of mp3 I’ve been listening to over the last 2 months.

Wavves‘ second album hasn’t quite caught me yet, however his Animal Collective inspired track, “Mickey Mouse“, definitely has. I cannot wait to watch him perform this december.

A powerful, emotional and epic track from We Were Promised Jetpacks, It’s Thunder and It’s Lightening is centered around a basic guitar riff, but with great production values, reaches soaring heights and comes crashing to a whisper ,magnificently.

So Near is my favourite track from Jack Peñate’s debut, with vigorous echoing guitars and a really catchy piano chorus.

Take a bass line and a drum pattern straight out of Motown and layer over some Daft Punk vocals of Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and you have Metronomy’s take on The Very Best; Warm Hearts of Africa (Metronomy Remix).

I’ve got hold of The Velvet Underground’s discography and have been going through it with great enthusiasm.It’s fascinating to see sounds and ideas which are used so often in today’s “avant-garde” music. Sweet Jane’s head nodding and slightly insane vocals has been my highlight so far.

Bugged Out Classics

Want to solidify your electronic collection? Then look know further than this fantastic compilation. It really helps someone like myself, get hold of older dance hits, to balance out the new remixes which are always floating around the web. I’ll leave you with the first four of the impressive fifty tracks, which is spread over three “themed” CDs.

Do You Want To (Erol Alkan Remix) / Franz Ferdinand

Krack / Soulwax

We Are Your Friends / Justice Vs Simian

Drop The Pressure / Mylo

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I Like

Here are a couple of tracks from other blogs, which I have been really enjoying recently.

Sex Machine / ReSeT! – A funky mix of hip-hop and house, using a classic track, with some delightful synth lines.

Monster / Parov Stelar – According to Last.fm, Parov Stelar is nu-jazz, downtempo, electronic, lounge and jazz. It’s odd, but really fun.

The Graveyard Shift / Friendship – Take a beautiful riff, which wouldn’t be out of place in a slow Vampire Weekend track, throw in some math rock sensibilities via irregular guitar patterns and bleeding fast drum beats and drench it in distortion. The result is a great song.

The first two were from the fantastic Disco Demons and the The Graveyard Shift is from real Horrorshow tunes.

Pixies

The last two albums I purchased were the two most famous albums from this amazing band. I had only got hold of their greatest hits and I was ready for some more. I’m sorry Kurt fans, but Pixies are the greatest grunge artist and are my favourite band from the 80s. I thought I would share some of my personal favourites.

Where Is My Mind? has pounding drums, half-hearted singing and their trademark loud, and then soft, dynamic which gives this track an incredibly epic feel. Gouge Away finishes off Doolittle with its dark message of self-mutilation. Again this song has pounding drums and guitars which are distorted in pain. My favourite Pixies track is Hey, a shockingly funky song, compared to Gouge Away which is just two tracks afterwards. The lyrics are just as dark though; “Where have you been? If you go, I will surely die” and other lines which question relationships and love. It soon returns to the moaning of the guitar through screams of “We’re Chained!”. The raw emotion put into the vocals, as with all of their songs, is fantastic and gives this song so much life. As a bonus, here is a little remix, Hey (Diplo Devil Remix). It’s obviously not as good as the original, but at least it does it some justice.

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Too Many Dicks On The Dancefloor (Schwarz Remix) – Flight Of The Conchords

Season two has been going okay, the story lines are just as good as the first, however the songs aren’t quite as brilliant. Once it’s finished, I will post a round up of the best mp3s. Schwarz didn’t change this track that much, they just made it longer. But why radically change an all ready perfect song?

Too Many Dicks On The Dancefloor (Schwarz Remix)

Thanks to Forever Awesome for the mp3!