Saw Steve Aoki on Friday just there. I was absolutely hammered and therefore dancing like an absolute gimp on the dance-floor. He played a really good set and did about 150 stage dives – love it, wish more DJs would do that. And yes he played Warp 1.9 and yes it was amazing. I shook his hand at the end for being a legend.

No Steve Aoki songs but Dim Mak-related material so stop complaining. Plus I ♥ The Bloody Beetroots. Their Groove Armada remix is one of my favourite this year – I bet in the live environment it’s fucking euphoric. The Timbaland remix packs a big punch too.

Listen: Groove Armada – I Won’t Kneel (The Bloody Beetroots Remix) ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Timbaland – Miscommunication (The Bloody Beetroots Remix) ←♥♥
MP3: Groove Armada – I Won’t Kneel (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)
MP3: Timbaland – Miscommunication (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)

Radio discoveries next. Kissy Sell Out played this Lucky Dip remix the other day and it stood out right away as one of the best ones he played – it actually made me smile when I first heard it. Takes a while to get into (~1min before it stutters in) but is a really playful remix and it’s worth the wait. Heard this Felix Da Housecat remix on Alex Metric’s Radio 1 show and same again, it stood out from the pack so I’ve ripped it for your pleasure. Finally, this Jaymo & Andy George (another Radio 1 staple) remix is fantastic. Exactly what I want from a remix.

Listen: Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling (Lucky Dip Remix) ←♥♥
Listen: Passion Pit – Little Secrets (Felix Da Housecat Remix) ←♥♥ (Radio Rip)
Listen: Miike Snow – Black & Blue (Jaymo & Andy George Remix) ←♥♥♥♥
MP3: Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling (Lucky Dip Remix)
MP3: Passion Pit – Little Secrets (Felix Da Housecat Remix)
MP3: Miike Snow – Black & Blue (Jaymo & Andy George Remix)

Just saw this over at Oh Gosh, They’ve Taken Panoramix. God I cannot wait for The Proxy @ Cabaret Voltaire in August for the Festival.

“The game of chess is like a sword fight,
You must think first before you MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE… “

Spiegel Garden, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Listen: The Proxy – Think First ←♥♥♥♥♥
MP3: The Proxy – Think First

Listen: The Proxy – In New DJs We Trust (Radio 1 Mix 19/09/2008) ←♥♥♥
MP3: The Proxy – In New DJs We Trust (Radio 1 Mix 19/09/2008)

Tracklist:
Chemical Brothers – ‘Hey Boy Hey Girl’ [Soulwax Remix] (Virgin)
Laven & MSO ft. Malte – ‘Reach’ [Alte Schule Acid Instrumental] (Klang Elektronic)
Polymorpbic – ‘Rock To Play’ (White)
Autodidakt – ‘Shit Your Rack’ [Proxy Remix] (Traktor)
Volatile – ‘Faces Of War’ (White)
Proxy – ‘Who Are You?’ (Turbo)
Math Head – ‘Get Hype’ (Trouble & Bass Palms Out Sounds)
Aleem –‘Felix Yo!’[Chef Remix](Pro-Zak Trax)
Shadow Dancer – ‘Cowbois’ [Dilemn Remix]
Math Head – ‘Turn The Music Up’ [AC Slater Remix] (Trouble & Bass Palms Out Sounds)
Digitalism – ‘Home Zone’ [Proxy Remix] (White)
Proxy – ‘Raven’ [Live Edit] (Turbo)
Medicine – ‘I’m Sick’ (Next Century)

Bonus
Listen: Frankmusik – Confusion Girl (Dolby Anol Remix) ←♥♥♥ (2.45 onwards)
MP3: Frankmusik – Confusion Girl (Dolby Anol Remix)

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!

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)

Well, I did it. Or should I say, we did it. Me and big PCJ saw 2 bands in one night in 2 different cities. The Horrors were first up at King tut’s in Glasgow. They put on a pretty good show, and I’m glad I got to see them play ‘Sea Within A Sea’. We spent a lot of the time staring at/laughing/slagging the bassist/keyboardist (pictured in the black+white stripey t-shirt below) though, because he was doing this fucked up little dance that you’d have done in the 80s that just looked weird. I was half expecting Simon Le Bon to jump out. He did look the part though, I’ll give him that.

(The Horrors, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, May 29th)

Listen: Gonzales – Working Together (Boys Noize Dub Mix)
MP3: Gonzales – Working Together (Boys Noize Dub Mix)