Yeah, you guessed it. Scottish Friction regular Boys Noize.
..And I’m not gonna be there. Instead of smashing shit up I’ll just let The Proxy completely annihilate this Boys Noize track… in the best way possible of course. It’s not really payback at all, is it. It’s just making me even more jealous.

Listen: Boys Noize – Let’s Buy Happiness (The Proxy Remix)
MP3: Boys Noize – Let’s Buy Happiness (The Proxy Remix)

At least there’s no one else there worth seeing eh…….Wait…… WHAT??!?

Yup. Thats right. It’s like the Holy Trinity. Back-to-back FFS!

Listen: Tiga – Beep Beep Beep (Punks Jump Up Remix)
MP3: Tiga – Beep Beep Beep (Punks Jump Up Remix)

This Punks Jump Up remix is a cracker. I’d say this and the JUPITER remix of Chew Lips (another Scottish Friction favourite) are the best remixes I’ve heard for, ooh at least a week, which is like a year in blogtime. Plus they sound nice played one after the other

Listen: Chew Lips – Salt Air (JUPITER Remix) ←♥♥♥
MP3: Chew Lips – Salt Air (JUPITER Remix)

I’ve been to T in the Park twice now (2006/07) and each time was fantastic. Think it only rained a couple of times. Thats me on the left incase you’re wondering – looking like a twat in my Kamikaze bandana and Devo t-shirt hahaha. I don’t care. Look at our faces. We’re practically glowing. Good beer to man ratio. Great weekend.

So excited about the new Jay Reatard album. I think I worn out Blood Visions within a week of first hearing it. I even started a Jay Reatard myspace page with my favourite song of his at the time because I wanted to add it to my myspace profile but nobody had it! Hahahhaa. How sad is that. I’ve not been on my myspace for aaages. 6,222 plays though! RESULT! Anyway, I really like this new song of his.

Listen: Jay Reatard – It Ain’t Gonna Save Me
MP3: Jay Reatard – It Ain’t Gonna Save Me

Before I forget I got a great email from the Polaris Music Prize-nominated Elephant Stone. I gave their song ‘I Am Blind’ a listen and I think it’s great. T’otherwise I wouldn’t have posted it. If you like it, apparently the album’s streaming at the Indiecater website.

Listen: Elephant Stone – I Am Blind
MP3: Elephant Stone – I Am Blind

Bassline at the start sounds a bit like Jackie Wilson‘s ‘Higher & Higher’ eh? And that song reminds me of the end scene in ‘Death To Smoochy‘. You have to see that film. Hilarious.

Listen: Jackie Wilson – (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher
MP3: Jackie Wilson – (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher

p.s. this video, although added more than a year ago,  seems quite moving now

ZOMFG! Just announced that Boys Noize will be playing City Nightclub on 28th August. Can you believe it??! I only saw him last month! Got my ticket earlier! GIRFUY! Sent out a heowge feeler text to see who was up for it and everybody that has replied so far has been a “FUCK YES!”. This is gonna be such a good festival. Know what else? Clubs don’t shut til 5am during the festival!! I think I need to change my knickers.

City, Market Street, Edinburgh

Listen: I Robots – Frau (Boys Noize Remix)
MP3: I Robots – Frau (Boys Noize Remix)

Fuck knows why but this song was in my head all day and I didn’t even know who it was by. I remembered it was from a comedy film I’d just watched but I couldn’t place it. I googled the lyrics I could vaguely remember and BANG! Herpes. Just joshing. It was Dumb and Dumber and the song was ‘The Rain, The Park & Other Things’ by The Cowsills. Big in ’67.

Listen: The Cowsills – The Rain, The Park & Other Things
MP3: The Cowsills – The Rain, The Park & Other Things

I wasn’t sure about the new Calvin-Harris-produced-Chrome-featuring-brand-spanking-new-never-been-heard-before-world-exclusive (I might’ve taken some artistic license there) Dizzee Rascal single ‘Holiday’ when I first heard it. And now I hear you cry? I can’t get enough. Think its because the quality of the rips out there were quite poor. I acquired (LOL) a better version and, I won’t lie, I’ve played the shit out of the little sunny fucker. I haven’t heard it in the club setting yet, but I can imagine from 2.45 onwards all hell breaks loose.

Listen: Dizzee Rascal Feat. Chrome – Holiday [Full Version]
MP3: Dizzee Rascal Feat. Chrome – Holiday [Full Version]

This Don Diablo remix is also very good. This man has cranked out some absolutely storming remixes and its no wonder why he’s one of the most blogged about DJs around! p.s. Check that bass!

Listen: Linus Loves – Prom Night (Don Diablo Remix)
MP3: Linus Loves – Prom Night (Don Diablo Remix)

I’ve been so busy lately I’ve not had a chance to update this but I’ll give it a go. I saw Brodinski last Friday at Sugarbeat!!! He played an absolute stormer. I was supoosed to meet my flatemate there but he eventually couldn’t get in due to his friend being gloriously inebriated (i.e. steamin’!). Nevermind though, the night had a turn up for the books when I met a couple of old/new friends and had a total blast. I think I may have found new gig buddies. Oh yeah, and he dropped this bomb…

Listen: Tiga – What You Need (The Proxy Remix) ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
MP3: Tiga – What You Need (The Proxy Remix)

Complete change of tone for Bibio. This summery pluckfest (and his album for that matter) has been hogging my eardrums this week. Lovers’ Carvings hooked me within the first 5 seconds.

Listen: Bibio – Lovers’ Carvings
MP3: Bibio – Lovers’ Carvings

This Don Diablo remix of Frankmusik‘s ‘Confusion Girl’ is just a really great remix/rework of a so-so song. Kind of like that Duke Dumont remix (read: total annihilation) of Lily Allen‘s ‘The Fear’.

Listen: Frankmusik – Confusion Girl (Don Diablo Loves To Slowdance Remix)
MP3: Frankmusik – Confusion Girl (Don Diablo Loves To Slowdance Remix)

Finally, apart from Bibio, the Cryptonites‘ ‘Night Drive Mixtape’ has been on basically non-stop. Really really good mix and exactly my kind of taste at this very moment!! I’ve taken the liberty of posting a couple of tracks from the mixtape because they’re very good.

Listen: Cryptonites – Boots Electric (Saint Pauli Remix)
MP3: Cryptonites – Boots Electric (Saint Pauli Remix)

MP3: Cryptonites – Night Drive Mixtape ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thanks to Too Many Sebastians

Tracklist:
01 Pony Pony Run Run: Hey You (sayCet Remix)
02 Benjamin Diamond: We Gonna Make It (Alan Braxe Remix)
03 Van She: Changes (Vemixed)
04 Carl Hanaghan & My Digital Enemy: Leyenda (Bass Kleph Remix)
05 Phonat: Set Me Free (Extended Mix)
06 Beyonce: Me, Myself & I (Laidback Luke Bootleg) (zshare)
07 Housemeister: Beach Control Berlin Stadt
08 Bag Raiders: Turbo Love (Spruce Lee Remix)
09 Housse De La Racket: Synthétiseur (Remix) (zshare) ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
10 Good Luck At The Gunfight: Puma
11 Autodidakt: Ghetto Nonsense (Hostage Remix)
12 Phoenix: Lisztomania (Yuksek Remix Edit)
13 Acidkids: Callahan
14 Zombie Nation: Mystery Meat Affair (Shadow Dancer Remix)
15 La Roux: Bulletproof (Midfield General Remix)
16 Boys Noize: Jeffer (zshare)
17 Cryptonites: Boots Electric
18 Empire Of The Sun: We Are The People (Sam La More Remix)
19 Peaches: Lose You (Yuksek & Brodinski Remix) (zshare)

Bonus (from here):
Listen: Lindsey Buckingham – D.W. Suite
MP3: Lindsey Buckingham – D.W. Suite

“Goethe’s final words: ‘More light’. Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry: ‘More light’. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon. Incandescent. Lights that banish the darkness from our caves, to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier’s field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we’re supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and candles. Light is metaphor.” Chris Stevens, Northern Exposure (1990)

I posted previously on what I got up to on Friday, but I didn’t mention what else I got up to at the weekend, and it ended up being one of the best weekends I can remember. Only recently started listening to Little Boots. This song sounds very 2009! I like it.