Man, have I been missing out on some fat (with a PH) choons this year. If you haven’t already, and if you’re a fan of the danse musix, I’d highly recommend you take a wee surf over to the Erol Alkan Forum to see what the dealio is with the sounds of the past/present/future by like-minded dance musique aficionados. For instance, today I was on a thread about “Which producers and/or DJs are ‘banging’ right now?” and decided to check out some of the most mentioned acts. I’d say L-Vis 1990 and Harvard Bass were mentioned the most in the post (hey that rhymes) – so I checked them out and FUCK me…. well…just listen……

Listen: Gucci Vump – Sha! Shtil! (L-Vis 1990 Remix) ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Acid Girls – Lightworks (Harvard Bass Remix) ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Jennifer Delano – Amsterdam (Riptide’s Found The Spot Remix) ←♥♥♥♥
MP3: Gucci Vump – Sha Shtil (L-Vis 1990 Remix)
MP3: Acid Girls – Lightworks (Harvard Bass Remix)
MP3: Jennifer Delano – Amsterdam (Riptide’s Found The Spot Remix)

I’d say I’ve probably played the stunning 7-min Gucci Vump remix more times this morning than I have any other song this past week. And just to warn you, I think my speakers were blown out with the drops in the Harvard Bass and Riptide remixes. I’ll definitely be following these with keen interest!

Listen: The Proxy – 8000 ←♥♥
Listen: La Roux – Quicksand (Boy 8-Bit Remix) ←♥
MP3: The Proxy – 8000
MP3: La Roux – Quicksand (Boy 8-Bit Remix)

The Proxy and Boy 8-Bit were also covered heavily in that post I mentioned. No wonder. Apparently Tiga finishes with 8000 at the end of each DJ set. I’ve posted on it before but I actually think it sounds better at a faster tempo! I’m also still reeling from the cancellation of The Proxy @ Cab Vol at the last minute. Thanks to LA Friendly and Noise Porn for these gems.

I like to keep up-to-date with new music releases/news/current goings on, so instead of trawling through every. single. fucking. website. I employ an RSS Reader – basically a program that updates you when you’re favourite blog has a new post. I used to use FeedDemon but it fucked up and wouldn’t display images so I now use Google Reader and fuck me its awesome. Even better, apparently I already have 26 subscribers on Google Reader! Yeaaah Boyeeee!!! The moral of the story is – get Google Reader. NOW!

OK enough of my pish. I heard The Proxy remix on James Mountain’s Escape Plan and cheekily ripped it. Saw the Larry Tee and Alexander Technique remix over at Stoney Roads. I ♥ Ubbs like a blogfather. Both of these remixes are top notch, and as much as I would give a kidney to see The Proxy in the live environment, I’d say the Blogula remix just pips it.

Listen: Peaches – I Feel Cream (The Proxy Remix) Radio Rip 128kbps ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Peaches – I Feel Cream (Larry Tee and Alexander Technique Blogula Remix) ←♥♥♥♥
MP3: Peaches – I Feel Cream (The Proxy Remix) Radio Rip 128kbps
MP3: Peaches – I Feel Cream (Larry Tee and Alexander Technique Blogula Remix)

Some amaaaazing dubstep is coming from 22-year-old South Londoner Peter O’Grady a.k.a. Joy Orbison. Great name. One to watch.

Listen: Joy Orbison – Wet Look ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo ←♥♥♥♥♥
MP3: Joy Orbison – Wet Look
MP3: Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo

Finally getting round to mentioning this absolutely STUNNING remix by The xx. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – Florence And The Machine is/are(?) overhyped to the max. I won’t even link to the fucker. The xx, however, have released one of my favourite albums this year. They have a song called ‘Basic Space‘ and I’d say it’s a good description of their sound more than anything else. Single guitar/bass notes, basic drumbeats, sparse production. They have their own ‘sound’ after only 1 album it’s crazy. Goes totally against the grain of what kind of music has been coming out in recent years. Brilliant.

Listen: Florence And The Machine – You Got The Love (The xx Remix) ←♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: The xx – Islands ←♥♥♥♥♥
MP3: Florence And The Machine – You Got The Love (The xx Remix)
MP3: The xx – Islands

p.s. coming sooooooooon.

do you think i’m excited?

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!

Received a very friendly email from Edinburgh-based (WOOHOO!) Hostage about the summer mix he’s put together. I think Noise Porn said it best…

“This has to be one of the best mixes i have heard in a very long time (*currently chair dancing as i write this) because it contains a perfect balance of big club bangers and lesser known gems. Everything about it is well thought out and tastefully done (including somewhat less well known tracks makes for an educating and interesting listen). This is a great representation of what any Hostage set would be like- absolutely banging!!!”

MP3: Hostage – Sunburn Mix ’09

Really like this mix. Pushes all my fun buttonz. Any mix that finishes with that Proxy remix is fine in my book.

His next release will be a remix of Foamo‘s ‘Wardance’, apparently, along with remixes from Reso and Hijack

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