Foals‘ new album Total Life Forever is set to release May 10th, and to give us a sneak peak they’ve released a pretty epic video for “Spanish Sahara”, and are offering up a free download of a Mount Kimbie remix from their website. I’m a big fan of what these guys do guitarically (if I may make up a word), and I’m glad to see they’re keeping the unison, echo-driven, duel-guitar riffs around for this next album. For those of you who haven’t heard these guys before, give their last album Antidotes a listen to prepare yourself for the new album. I have high hopes.
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The Remix Artist Collective (RAC) are three guys based separately out of Portugal, New York and The Netherlands who seem to be on a mission to take your average, everyday Pitchfork-darling bands and spice them up a little, make them more fun, exciting and ready to be danced to by you and your too-thin hipster friends. Instead of the usual remixes you can easily find all over the internets by French dudes in their fancy studios (ahem – Thin White Duke – ahem) using Garageband to create some gawd-awful milquetoast remix of The Killers “Human” (Now with more reverb!), RAC takes something from Ra Ra Riot, U2, Teagan and Sara or The Gossip and adds their own sweet synth beats (among other things) with the blessing of the original artists themselves. The “collective” will work on tracks separately or together, sending them through cyberspace to each other to work on until they’re perfect. They last released a little four-track ep in December ‘09, but another is promised soon, and when you get tired of the ep, check out their older work, all available to download for HERE.
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I can’t get enough of this remix by Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend. The auto-tune, the filters, the reverb, the drums… its great. To be honest, I heard “Early Warnings” about a year ago and I am embarrassed to say it didn’t stick with me. Alas, I have come around and this is one of those remixes that makes you like the original song even more. If you like the style of the guys in Vampire Weekend you will like Foreign Born. It is catchy, sincere, and damn good. Check out their album Person to Person on Secretly Canadian. Enjoy!
PS: Check out the video for “Early Warnings” HERE. And if you are in DC they are coming to DC9 on March 14th. Tickets HERE.
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Here’s a quickie. Alan Wilkis sent me his latest remix of one of the more talked about bands of 2010, and one that we’ve mentioned quite a few times. This is his remix of Yeasayer’s “Ambling Alp”. Enjoy!
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I had an itch to check out Dayve Hawk’s (Memory Tapes) blog (We’re Tapes) yesterday and it turns out he just finished a remix of Tanlines‘ “Real Life”. Check it out!
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Over the holiday break in Texas I was hanging out with one of my buddies in Fergus & Geronimo telling tour stories. On one night of their tour last year they played with Florida’s Surfer Blood. I was skeptical at first when he was telling me about a Weezeresque/Lo-Fi/Rock group, as I should be. (Not to mention their name was Surfer Blood, which after becoming mildy obsessed with this band I now love.) Anyways… my skepticism was silenced 30 seconds into the single “Swim” and I was sold. To sweeten the deal I also posted this awesome remix of “Swim” by Allen Blickle of Baroness. Be sure and see them in DC on February 24th at DC9 and in Texas at SXSW. Enjoy…
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Everything Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe (Kings Of Convenience) touches is pure gold. If you haven’t checked out their latest, Declaration of Dependence, it’s a real treat. If you have, then you know what I’m talking about. Here’s a great collaboration between the boys and the now deceased dub-house artist Erot (r.i.p. 1978-2001), titled “Gold For The Price Of Silver,” that hasn’t made its way out here in the blogosphere yet. This is actually one of my favorites by Øye & Bøe!
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This is my first post of 2010! Whoo! To start off the new year I figured I would go with a remix that has been floating around a while, but not really getting much attention. Enjoy this Neon Indian remix of Grizzly Bear’s “Cheerleader”. Happy New Year!
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Stricken City’s Songs About People I Know, released back in November, is an eclectic blend of strummy guitar lines, pounding drums, whispy keys, & powerful vocal melodies. Here’s the brand spanking new remix by Skellington of “Pull The House Down,” track 2 off the album, along with the original. Also, here’s a video diary of their last tour, featuring the remix:
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Several months ago we did a post on Son Green, an excellent DJ/electronic artist from Sweden. He’s got some really interesting tunes, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed everything he’s put out so far. I just got an email from him with his latest, a remix of Phoenix’s “Fences.”
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Phoenix is releasing a collection of “Wolfgang Amadeus” remixes by such artists as YACHT, Chairlift, Passion Pit, Friendly Fires and much, much, more. Here’s Animal Collective’s, or I should say Deakin’s, remix of “Love Like A Sunset”. The collection is set to release digitally on Glassnote Records October 13th.
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