Recent Articles in Remixes
Battles Drop ‘Dross Glop’ Mixtape April 17th
Battles, a rare standing survivor among the heavy & staccato sounds to emerge from the great Electrowar has garnered much international acclaim for their dynamism. Testimony as such, their beautiful second full-length child ‘Gloss Drop’ (2011) has had each and every of its organs and tissues re-arranged by top surgeons…
Salem’s “Better Off Alone” Is A Group Effort
Jacques Derrida also once shrewdly remarked in a his seminal text on Metaphysics of Logocentrism, “The remixers become the remix”. To that Jacques Lacan then added: “Gaze. Rape gaze” and let go of a puffet of rich purple dank smoke*. And so today brings us an Alec Empire and Atari Teenage Riot remix of the Salem version of “Better Off Alone” is a muggier, angrier, and a more energetic version. Give it a listen.
CREEP ‘Animals’ (Remixed and Anticipating Full-Length)
A few weeks back we dropped CREEP’s Solaris-esque video for their latest track “Animal” (feat. Holly Miranda). We just got word …Read the Rest
Miike Snow Drops “Devil’s Work,” ‘Happy To You’ LP Announced
Post-ABBA music history teaches that Swedish musicians take pop extremely seriously. Miike Snow, following suit, released their 2009 self-titled rookie: the sincere singles were swallowed whole, lightening the vacuous caverns of primetime television soundtracks for Gossip Girl and the reboots of Melrose Place and 90210…
Laurel Halo Remixes Planningtorock’s “Living It Out” to a Perfectly, Germanic Trippy T, Whatever That Means
We are eccentric, upper class Germanic peoples who choose to place our comforting follies in the woods. We are poetic, trippy, yet also down-to-earth, and appreciate a long, drawn out poetry. I must admit, I’d like to belong to this class…
FAC. DANCE, Factory Records Compilation Release Out Now
Let’s lose it on the dancefloor tonight. FAC. DANCE is a new double album spotlighting the early dance output of Factory Records from 1980-1987. Return to the post-Joy Division, pre-rave years of this important Manchester record label founded by Tony Wilson, Alan Erasmus and designer Peter Saville. You can hear a track from A Certain Ratio now.
Planningtorock Lends Vocals to Shit Robot’s ‘Answering Machine’
Shit Robot has just released ‘Answering Machine’, his latest 12” single, out now on DFA Records, with vocals by none other than Berlin’s Planningtorock.
Late Guest at the Party’s ‘You Make Me Nervous’, DJ Teenwolf Remix for a Friday Morning
So what if Interview beat us as the first to premiere this track? Late Guest at the Party’s ‘You Make Me Nervous’ is a lot bit dancey, a little bit Britpop and definitely unpredictable and ridiculously fun…
Heartsrevolution and Kitsune Dare You to Mix New Track, ‘Teenage Teardrops’
Fancy yourself a rad mix master or evil genius basement producer? NYC duo HEARTSREVOLUTION have teamed up with their label Kitsune to let you, savvy listener, come up with your own wild mix for their latest track, “Teenage Teardrops”.
Austra to Release Sparkle Remix 12″; In town for U.S. Tour
Toronto’s recent Polaris Prize nominees Austra will follow up their powerful Domino Records’ release Feel It Break with a generous remix collection, the Sparkle 12″, on July 26th digitally, and August 23rd on vinyl.
