Rowdy Superst*r

Found this guy on myspace and he's got a wicked refix of Accident and Emergency by Patrick Wolf.

His other stuff is more than worth checking out but i'm not up for ripping it from his myspace. He's not signed so be kind and give him some traffic on his myspace. big tunes, big tunes.

Patrick Wolf - A&E (Rowdy Superstar Refix

Tape Deck

Tape Deck are producers / DJs from london. They kinda put a whole london twist on the booty sound Diplo et al are putting out. It actually feels a bit more produced than a lot of diplo stuff which usually sounds like it wouldn't exist at all if it wasn't for the ableton series.

They've just sorted out a remix of Love by Veto Silver; a synth pop trio. It's a pretty interesting result especially at about 1.27 when the beat completely changes.

I've also stuck up the lost penguin remix which sounds like a booty rave take on the slits. its my fave thing tape deck have done by far.


Love (Tapedeck remix) - Veto Silver

Lost Penguin (Tapedeck remix)


Please excuse my general lack of literary prowess this morning. I don't feel very well.

The Best Kids Christmas Album In The World Ever!

Happy Christmas Everyone. I hope that Santa brought you everything you might want, and if he didn't, atleast you got some record tokens.

This year's been massive for 7" labels, what with Transgressive being snapped up by Warner, Tough Love continuing to release amazing stuff in Coventry and singles clubs from Truck and Moshi Moshi amongst others. There's been one though whose releases have hit the spot every time, without fail. That label is Kids, who this year have relesaed an amazing Christmas album, featuring specially recorded songs from their artists and with all proceeds going to the NSPCC. Tasty. Anyway, I've been playing this record on repeat throughout the holiday season, so it's only right I share some of its goodness with you.

First up, the appropriately named Kids Allstarz performing the best Xmas song to ever come from the Midlands, Merry Xmas Everybody. Noddy Holder opened the music department at my school. NoShit.

Next up the West End Girls doing Brenda Lee's 'Always On My Mind'. Not actually that festive, but fucking brilliant anyway.

Anyway, I implore you to go out and buy. The disc's available from all better record emporiums, and online direct from Kids here. Whilst you're at it, pick up the Assembly Now and Mighty Six Ninety singles as well.

Kids Allstarz - Merry Xmas Everybody

West End Girls - Always On My Mind

Duran Duran

A little while back I wrote a super long post about 80s remixes but it never published and was lost into the web :( disheartened and lazy i couldn't be arsed to write it all out again.

anyway this was one of the tracks involved. a rather hilarious duran duran remix which shows early signs of glitching. you can almost hear the glue.

Duran Duran - The Reflex (dance mix)

the cock n bull kid

aka my new favourite artist.


I stumbled across the cocknbullkid after seeing a flyer for some show or other and the name jumped out.

A cross between M.I.A. and Kelis and stating that almost all of my favourite bands are her influences I was in love before the first chorus of her Talking Heads cover kicked in. She's produced all the songs herself (and apologises for the song quality...even though its at a pretty decent standard) and they show a real ear for production. She's got a few upcoming projects with Metronomy, The Bleeps, Missoddkid and Goldielocks all of which are fine, fine artists in their own right.

I genuinely haven't been this excited about a new artist since I picked up M.I.A.s first promo 12 inch all that time ago...and she was signed...Thecocknbullkid is still her formative stages.

Thecocknbullkid - Psyhco Killer (Talking Heads Cover)

Thecocknbullkid - There's A Mother In Our Bed

Heads We Dance

Heads we dance formed less than four months ago. Within a month they supported the fabulous Dead Disco and they're currently advertising their show with Robyn.

Vocally they flick between David Byrne, Alex Kapranos and Bryan Ferry. Musically they're a synth driven Franz Ferdinand/Clap Your Hands sans the country upbringing. They list their influences as Roxy Music, Depeche Mode, Associates, Human League, Pet Shop Boys, Prince & the Revolution, Film Noir, Art Deco, Tom Tom Club, Daft Punk, The KLF, Dead Or Alive, Wham!...so its easy to see why they're producing such classic pop music. Tom Tom Club is cool kid speak for I like the talking heads more than you.

All their songs are available for download on their myspce but i've got two of my faves here for you...because this is an mp3 blog. not just a new musical opinion blog. they don't have anything to buy yet so we suggest you pop over and say hi to them and share the love that way.

Heads We Dance - Yoshiwara

Heads We Dance - So You Want To Stay...


elsewhere one of my own mixes has been blogged at Symmetrical Love. It's been described as yummy...twice.

Tiga

I thought Tiga's album was, for the most part, gash. All the good tracks were already on 12inch on my shelves and the new tracks it contained just sounded like flat, idealess fillers. The talking heads cover is a case in point. Far From Home was fantastic but it took the DFA to come along and make something really special. Move My Body was alright but it lacked any real force or power and so was lost amongst the other fillers.

Thank fuck Boysnoize came along and injected 12inches of life into it. Headphone Sex posted it back in June but it hasn't been pencilled for release until now. I'm still not totally sure when its out but there are some copies that have appeared on pure groove. The boysnoize version does what all good boysnoize remixes do and that's take the original and just add the most amazingly distorted synths creating some heavy electro...its almost Vitalic.

Erol Alkan has also been on remix duties. In the classic erol style this is more like a re-edit than a remix...taking the good bits and repeating them with some additional production. Anyone who has seen Erol djing recently will recognise this track as he seems pretty proud of it and its easy to hear why.


Tiga - Move My Body (Boysnoize Remix)

Tiga - Move My Body (Only For Erol Remix)



I know nothing about Jaunt except that the Traveller EP is out soon. Again you can pick it up from puregroove . I've been sitting on it for a little while and its racked up a considerable number of plays.

Jaunt - Travelling.