Star Slinger let loose a couple of remixes over the last few days: one of Caged Animals and one of Toro y Moi. Here’s his latest reworking, of the Oxford band Fixers. The original ‘Swimmhaus Johannesburg’ gets turned from a … Read More…
Jape has remixed And So I Watch You From Afar’s new single from Gangs, ’7 Billion People All Alive at Once’ into a heady dance rework. Have a listen to that plus the radio and album versions of the original … Read More…
One of the acts I’m personally most looking forward to checking at Electric Picnic, Niki & The Dove (actually a duo) have released a couple of new tracks. First up, is ‘Last Night’, a song which reminds me of Bjork … Read More…
Morgan Kibby of M83 aka White Sea remixes Japanese Popstars‘ ‘Shells Of Silver’ featuring James Vincent McMorrow on vocals. Really suiting the mood today. You can pick up a remix of Active Child by White Sea at AU. Download: The … Read More…
Continuing the trend for taking ’90s R&B and dragging it through a dark cave, Balam Acab twists Ghosttown DJ’s ‘My Boo’ into something ghostly, atmospheric and high-pitched. See also Nicolas Jaar’s recent work. Download: My Boo (BALAM ACAB Remix) – … Read More…
Part three of the Radiohead 12″ remixes series sees Four Tet stretch ‘Seperator’ into warmer shapes , Lone go ‘Feral’ and Pearson Sound go funky on ‘Morning Mr. Magpie’. This is out now in Ireland (if there are any copies … Read More…
Remixes from Syrian electronic master Omar Souleyman of three Björk Biophila tracks have appeared on Youtube (he was awesome at Electic Picnic), a day after the ‘Crystalline’ video. There are three in total: ‘Crystalline’, ‘Tesla’ and ‘Mawal’. Souleyman’s unique Middle … Read More…
I love the relentless nature of this Girl Unit remix. It’s intense, grimey and pulsating. The alarms keep things eerie as the synths and bass hints roll over each other. It appears on a Hemlock Recordings-released Counter Balance remix EP … Read More…
As you may know, The Reich Effect ran a remix competition over the last month to give producers an opportunity to rework Steve Reich’s Drumming. The submitted remixes were then sent to the judges who included myself, Jim Carroll, Gavin … Read More…
The second of the Radiohead remix 12″ is out today officially worldwide. Nathan Fake goes for the long ambient treatment on ‘Morning Mr. Magpie’ while Mark Pritchard gets two goes at ‘Bloom’, one as Harmonic 313 and my favourite, the … Read More…
The Casanova Wave remix of Solar Taxi’s ‘Glass Hearts’ lends the song a synthy euphoria and an epic Goldfrapp sheen to Solar Taxi’s original. Both artists are from Waterford. Solar Taxi released an EP called She Dies With Beautiful Teeth … Read More…
