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DOWNLOAD: Frost - One Hundred Years (Alexander Robotnick Remix) + Free Your Heart (Rune Lindbæk Remix)
Oh Scandinavia, all that metal aside, you never cease to fill our ears with cushy, seren vibes, despite enduring what many would consider the most extended and brutal winter in the world. Norway's Frost, a new wave duo composed of Aggie Peterson and Per Martinsen (aka Mental Overdrive), dropped us a line the other day with these two remixes, one from disco pioneer–and recent Fool's Gold artist!–Alexander Robotnick and the other from Norwegian DJ Rune Lindbæk, one half of Meanderthals. If these remixes were friends of ours from college, Robotnick's would be the one to give us drugs and take us out to all-night parties–cruising on 303 arpeggios–while Lindbaek's, in scratchy disco polyester, would play us David Lynch movies and let us fingerpaint on their walls. We love them both equally.
Sounds like: Tiedye, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, Chromatics
Frost - One Hundred Years (Alexander Robotnick Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Niyi - Boom Bang Boy (feat. Adamski)
I think Niyi's London's most prominent hipster. I'm not certain about such things, but matey chills with M.I.A., Gareth Pugh and that girl from Cassette Playa, DJs at Punk on Oxford Street and got kicked out of Central Saint Martins a couple of times. He also gave birth to Nu-Rave, allegedly. What a horrible, sloppy mess that must have been; neon tendrils reaching out from the torso of some gurn-faced baby. Anyway - Niyi's plays a bouncy, half-pop, half-rap kind of music and he's playing at the London showcase for new label/club night Awesome next Saturday, July 11th. Details are up there - if you want entry, turn up and say 'RCRD LBL' on the door and those most magic of words should see you in.
Sounds Like: Bloc Party, Nelly Furtado, Just Jack
DOWNLOAD: White Lies - Death (Crystal Castles Remix)
Never ones to pussyfoot, Crystal Castles have taken White Lies' request to remix "Death" as a cue to transform it into one of their own tracks, Harry McVeigh's vocal messed with so that the singer seems sliced at the throat and buried alive beneath shifting synth thrusts and impatient drum muck. The more vigilant among you may remember this track from last year, but this is a new edit, bloodlust revived, shining, fresh meat to stuff in your ears.
Sounds Like: Pictureplane, a murderous garden strimmer, HEALTH // DISCO
DOWNLOAD: The Glass - Wanna Be Dancin'
Dance music is the music of mantras. By that I mean, if you come up with a line that sounds good repeated, you're already halfway to a hook. This new single from The Glass coasts on its chorus; a mash of house piano, snippets of the "Woo! Yea!" sample, and its title slurred over buttermilk echo. If you play this on repeat for twenty minutes, as we just did, that title slips into your brain and all of a sudden you're headed to the coffee maker humming "I wanna be dance...ing" and people are looking at you funny wondering why you would want to do such a thing so early. And then you do a little MJ kick in the kitchen and people think you are weirder. Whatever you guys, we just got all caught up in the moment. Oh hey, that's another one right there.
The full "Wanna Be Dancin'" single is out now on Plant Music, buy it on iTunes or Beatport.
Sounds like: The Juan MacLean, Kasper Bjorke
Previously:
The Glass - Mad At You (Supertroels Mix)
Robbers On High Street - Married Young (The Glass Remix)
The Glass - Come Alive (Rinôçérôse Remix)
Antipop feat. Asia Argento - Vampy (The Glass White Money Remix)
The Glass - Mad At You (Arveene & Misk Remix)
The Glass - Mad at You (Hot Pink Delorean Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Esser - Long Arms + Work It Out (Sinden Remix)
The first thing you notice about Benjamin Esser is his hair, a done-up coiffe that resembles ourselves being held upside down or a brunette version of Guile from Street Fighter. But along with undying swag, the London resident knows his way around a pop song. "Long Arms" is him at his most brash, though for you remix hounds we've included a Sinden refit of the tune "Work It Out" as well. Esser's Braveface is out not in the UK, Chocolate Industries will be releasing it here in the States later this summer. For a more in-depth discussion with the man, check this recent FADER TV feature.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Au Revoir Simone - Grateful
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We imagine Au Revoir Simone as three little swallows on a snow-bitten branch. “Grateful” is the soundtrack for gazing through a wintry half-moon of glass above the bed. Gauzy swirls, tulip icicles and an entire tundra lies beyond these birds, but their hypnotic call quiets us. Such unabashed prettiness can unfurl our hearts to discover the meaning of gratitude, as it exists in our trivial and somehow all-important lives. There are no tricks on Au Revoir Simone’s third album, Still Night, Still Light, just Heather D’Angelo, Erika Forster and Annie Hart’s sweet harmony, their keyboards and drums whittling holes into a starless sky. It is both lonely and very, very, lovely.
Sounds like: Meiko, Rainer Maria, Snowblink
Previously:
Au Revoir Simone - Shadows (It's A Fine Line Remix)
DOWNLOAD: A Gun Called Tension - The Echo Bass Sessions Mixtape
As if we need to be convinced to check a mixtape calling itself "a journey where no musical boundaries exist!," The Echo Bass Sessions is also the newest release from A Gun Called Tension, Dann Gallucci and Sean Reveron's inscrutably awesome punk/dub/electro-whatever project. Since Gallucci played in the Murder City Devils and Modest Mouse and Reveron collaborated with the Beta Band, sung for Exodus 77, and co-founded Rockers NYC, this mixtape sounds like the record collection of some dudes who listen deep and wide. Which is essentially what it is. And we haven't yet mentioned that the last track is an evidently super rare collaboration between Reveron (as Koolie Ranks) and 2Pac. At least, that's what he told us.
Sounds like: Public Image, Ltd., TV On The Radio
A Gun Called Tension - The Echo Bass Sessions Mixtape (Full Album Download)
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DOWNLOAD: Gareth Williams - Nothing On + Anger of Fire
That handsome looking chap on the left is Gareth Williams, once of London's This Heat, who were approximately the sixth most influential band of all time. The girl he's with is Mary Currie, with whom Gareth recorded the drifting, delirium-bound songs below back in the mid-Eighties, after he'd returned from his first trip to India and left This Heat behind. Gareth died on Christmas Eve in 2001, sadly, but at long last the music he made with Currie and other collaborators a quarter of a century ago is getting a relatively wide release, various bootlegs dusted off and gathered together for an album named Flaming Tunes, out now through Life and Living Records.
Sounds Like: Arthur Russell, The Beatles, David Bowie
DOWNLOAD: Holy Ghost! - I Will Come Back + Interview
(Photo: Marc Pilaro)
It's been about a year and a half since DFA released the first Holy Ghost! 12", "Hold On," a record that essentially reached disco ubiquity in 2008. Since then, the guys have been busy playing other peoples' records around the world, completing remixes for bands like Phoenix, and working on their debut album, tentatively set for release in 2010. So as not to deprive us for too long of their work, they recently linked up with Green Label Sound to give away this new single, "I Will Come Back". We got HG!'s Nick Millhiser on the phone earlier this week to talk about the making records, playing live, and discovering disco through sampling. Read that conversation after the break.
Sounds like: Michael Jackson's Off The Wall, The Juan MacLean, Jacques Renault
Holy Ghost! - I Will Come Back
Previously:
Holy Ghost! - Hold On (Instrumental)
DOWNLOAD: Summer Cats - Hey You
The other day, Kev opined about the gratuitous summer metaphors being thrown around, but it's like, dude, this band actually has the word in their name. Because we are professionals, we've got other stuff to mention about Melbourne's Summer Cats, like the fact that Slumberland, the once "resurgent" and now just murderously awesome American label, is putting out their debut LP on July 14th. It's called Songs For Tuesdays and contains this choppy guitar nugget we've been spinning all day. It feels good and that is not us being lazy.
Sounds like: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Stereolab, Bricolage
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