This is the last post I’ll be doing now for a couple of weeks while I get my final MSc project handed in. I’ve been really busy as of late so I’ve accrued quite the collection of decent tunes. So without further ado…

A mate sent me the link to this song last week. REALLY great remix. Blitz!Blitz!Blitz!Blitz!Blitz!Blitz!Blitz!Blitz!

Listen: A Girl And A Gun – Teenage Blitz! (Dave Scorp Remix) ←♥♥♥
MP3: A Girl And A Gun – Teenage Blitz! (Dave Scorp Remix)

Think I saw this over at Nashville Nights. Very good stuff also.

Listen: Dragonette – Fixin’ To Thrill (Villains Remix)
MP3: Dragonette – Fixin’ To Thrill (Villains Remix)

Did I get this from Pigeons & Planes? I can’t remember. Either way, this is the kind of hip-hop that gets my head bopping.

E4 Udderbelly, Bristo Square, Edinburgh

Listen: Drake – The Search (feat. Saukrates) ←♥♥♥
MP3: Drake – The Search (feat. Saukrates)

Another great Punks Jump Up remix I found somewhere. If I could remix – I’d wish it to come out sounding like this.

Teviot (Edinburgh Student Union) during the Fringe Festival, Edinburgh

Listen: Lykke Li – Breaking It Up (Punks Jump Up Remix) ←♥♥♥♥
MP3: Lykke Li – Breaking It Up (Punks Jump Up Remix)

This is possibly my favourite song on this post. Absolutely stunning remix. I don’t know how/what/where they’re doing this shizz but Classixx justt makee meee wantt tooo writee likee thisssssss. Where did I find this? Tooo Manyyyy Sebastiansss ofcourse!

E4 Hullabaloo Garden, George Square, Edinburgh

Listen: Major Laser – Cash Flow (Classixx Glass Bottom Dub) ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
MP3: Major Laser – Cash Flow (Classixx Glass Bottom Dub)

If you haven’t seen Miles Fisher by now then WTFF (thats fucking fuck) have you been?! He not only pulled off a fucker of a Tom Cruise impression, but then went and topped it with this hilarious Christian Bale/Talking Heads tribute. Can you tell I love a good impressionist? Aaanyway, the good looking fucker that he is also sings and writes music. The song I’ve posted is actually great and I got a shock. Reminds me of Brendan Benson‘s solo work actually – which is a very very good thing. I hope he gets the recognition he deserves – apparently he’s gonna be appearing in the new season of Mad Men. Let’s see if he tops Don Draper in the cool stakes.

Inside E4 Hullabaloo Garden, George Square, Edinburgh

Listen: Miles Fisher – What We Know ←♥♥♥
MP3: Miles Fisher – What We Know

Don’t like Noah & The Whale. At all. But I like this Twelves remix. They’ve cut the funk up and sprinkled their disco-jizz all over this bitch!

Listen: Noah And The Whale – Blue Skies (The Twelves Remix) ←♥♥
MP3: Noah And The Whale – Blue Skies (The Twelves Remix)

Another Simian Mobile Disco track has hit the WWW and the verdict is good. Just the right amount of Ditto. Too much and what have you got? Dot Cotton rottenness.

Listen: Simian Mobile Disco – Cruel Intentions (Feat. Beth Ditto)
MP3: Simian Mobile Disco – Cruel Intentions (Feat. Beth Ditto)

This is the oldest (and last, you’ll be glad to hear) track on this post. Teenage Bad Girl were introduced to me through the medium of a facebook status. It went something like “rediscovered the Teenage Bad Girl album. BEEF JUNKY“, whatever that means! Anyway, cheers Mikey!

Listen: Teenage Bad Girl – Ghost House
MP3: Teenage Bad Girl – Ghost House

So I watched the cool new trailer for the new Wes Anderson-directed Fantastic Mr. Fox film and what stuck out for me most (other than the mental stop motion animation) was the songs attached to it. Don’t think anybody’s really mentioned them so far so here you go.

Listen: The Bobby Fuller Four – Let Her Dance
Listen: Clarence Carter – Looking For A Fox
MP3: The Bobby Fuller Four – Let Her Dance
MP3: Clarence Carter – Looking For A Fox

p.s. I also found out that one of my favourite Clash songs wasn’t even written by them! I. Was. Gobsmacked.

You know when you just HAVE to be yourself post a song or you’ll just burst? Well I got that when I first heard ‘Odyssey’ by Woolfy when it was posted on I Guess I’m Floating. His description said it best and made me hit the ‘Play’ button instantly.

You’ve been lost on a desert island for 3 days. You find a radio in an abandoned beach shack, still works. You scan the channels looking for some distant flutter of life beneath the static. You turn the dial until the static subsides… it seems your whole life as been condensed down to those few gut wrenching seconds of silence. And then… a few snare hits. A guitar strum. Hand claps. A walking bass line? And then a voice: “Taking your tiimmmmmeee, to seeeeee, yourseelllllff.” “You’re giving it up.” “Odyssey.” You scan your surroundings beaming through a new veil of optimism. Hell, you don’t even care. Passive optimism. “Grab a coconut,” you tell yourself. “Stay a while.”

Listen: Woolfy – Odyssey ←♥♥♥♥
MP3: Woolfy – Odyssey

Saw this excellent GRUM remix over at LaFriendly. GRUM will be playing Cabaret Voltaire on 4th October. What? Am I going? Why yes. Yes I am.

Listen: Tommy Sparks – Miracle (GRUM Remix) ←♥♥♥
MP3: Tommy Sparks – Miracle (GRUM Remix)

This weekend saw the “largest ever gathering of clan chiefs” in Edinburgh for ‘Gathering 2009‘. Sounds like some sort of techno festival! LOL. Anyway, Prince Charles (known as the Duke Of Rothesay when in Scotland) and that came up to open the festival, which saw over 50,000 people and representatives from over 125 clans (scattered around the world). I always find it fascinating that there’s about 4.5 million Scots in Scotland but at least 25 million more of us settled abroad.

The Gathering 2009, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh

Don’t ask me what clan I’m in. I don’t have a fecking scooby. Anyway, back to what I do know. For instance, this is a banger.

Listen: Aquasky – It Will Knock You Out ←♥♥♥
MP3: Aquasky – It Will Knock You Out

Thanks to Nashville Nights for bringing this one to my earz.

I have a dilemma. My big MSc year hand-in is due on August 20th but I just recently found out The Proxy is coming to Edinburgh! The question is ‘should I go?‘

Of course I’m gonna fuckin go! Gonna get my ticket this week. So excited I could shoot some trees with a machine gun…

Listen: The Proxy – Indian Film ←♥♥♥♥♥♥ *dies*
Listen: The Proxy – 8000 [Live] ←♥♥♥♥♥ *goes to heaven*
MP3: The Proxy – Indian Film
MP3: The Proxy – 8000 [Live]

Thanks to Kid City for this excellent live rip of ’8000′ from Tiga‘s DJ set.

Like this track from A-Trak and Armand Van Helden a.k.a. Duck Sauce. Very funky. I ♥ the funk.

Listen: Duck Sauce (A-Trak & Armand Van Helden) – Anyway
MP3: Duck Sauce (A-Trak & Armand Van Helden) – Anyway

This Lifelike remix caught my ear too! Very dark. Very 80s. Very Gary Numan. Very good.

Listen: Moby – Mistake (Lifelike Remix)
MP3: Moby – Mistake (Lifelike Remix)

Saw this over at Gorilla Vs. Bear. Exactly what you’d hope a collaboration between Deerhunter and Animal Collective would sound like.

Listen: Atlas Sound (Feat. Noah Lennox) – Walkabout
MP3: Atlas Sound (Feat. Noah Lennox) – Walkabout

I was perusing the RAKETA blog (well, as much perusing you can do when you can’t read Russian) and found this really great summer mix from a Russian group called 7he Myriads. I know what you’re thinking. I love the use of 7 instead of a T as well. Aaanyway, was deciphering the tracklist and trying to work out what I was listening to and found this band called Cassette Club (the song in the mix was ‘Living In A Video‘). Decided to check them out for myself (hi google) and discovered that they’ve had literally no blog coverage. WTF!? Songs this good should not go unheard. Well fret no longer my love, help has arrived in the form of a 23-yr old Scotsman. Whodathunk eh?

Listen: Cassette Club – Talk To Me
Listen: Cassette Club – Living In A Video
Listen: Cassette Club – Number Seven ←♥♥♥ (All removed by request)
MP3: Cassette Club – Talk To Me
MP3: Cassette Club – Living In A Video
MP3: Cassette Club – Number Seven

Number Seven is my favourite out of this selection. Crying out for a remix too.

Listen: 7he Myriads – Megapolice
MP3: 7he Myriads – Megapolice

Lets big-up 7he Myriads, then, for letting us hear this new band. Megapolice sounds like the soundtrack to a 70s car-chase movie (yeah, yeah i know Bullitt was 1968). Really good actually.

I feel like I’ve gone off point.
What was the point of this post?

The Proxy!

if you’re wondering what happened to this lovely site, well im still getting to grips with the whole design-your-own website thing. i’ll soon be a whizz with php/css/html/wtf in no time.

thanks for being patient

Listen: St. Vincent – Actor Out Of Work
MP3: St. Vincent – Actor Out Of Work