Air France –‘It Feels Good To Be Around You’ (Memory Tapes Version)
Sweden’s Air France announced they were parting ways this week, the pair were too hard on themselves and as such found it too difficult to get their music to a finished point. Making music is an...
View ArticleSunday Song: Oliver Tank remixes Julia Stone
A gorgeous chilled-out track from Sydney musician Oliver Tank (who released the essential Dreams EP). He magnifies the Julia Stone original’s sense of space by concentrating on the subtle violin...
View ArticleGOODTIME –‘The Colours of Darkness’ (Tropics Remix)
Planet Mu producer Tropics, who released the sumptuous Parodia Flare last year has remixed GOODTIME as part of John Cowhie’s remix series which has previously included Diamond Dagger and David Kitt....
View ArticleThe Kanyu Tree –‘Congratulations’ (Young Wonder remix)
To date, Young Wonder themselves have been remixed by Daithí and SertOne with a Sun Glitters remix coming. For the band’s first original remix production they take the poppy tones of The Kanyu Tree’s...
View ArticleListen to Lapalux’s floaty remix of Lianne La Havas’‘Lost And Found’
Swit Swoo. Get you. Lapalux’s remix of Lianne La Havas floats along a clipped beat with beautiful ambience. This song is a calmer that will make you feel a bit more chilled if you’ve had a hard day.The...
View ArticleHear Four Tet’s new single & a Neneh Cherry remix
While you were enjoying your weekend (like me at Camden Crawl Dublin), you may have missed a couple of Four Tet related things. Firstly, a new 12″ single will be released on Kieran Hebden’s own TEXT...
View ArticleListen to Funeral Suits remixes by Toby Kaar & Reid
Funeral Suits‘ long-awaited Stephen Street-produced debut album Lily of the Valley gets set into the world on June 1st and it’ll be streamed exclusively via State next week. ‘All You Friendly People’,...
View ArticleGOODTIME –‘Like A River’ (Sunken Foal remix)
The remix project for Goodtime’s The Colours Of Darkness album, Departed has been a bit good so far with tracks from David Kitt, Diamond Dagger, Tropics and the excellent Great Lakes Mystery one I...
View ArticleKanye West –‘Mercy’ (RL Grime & Salva Remix)
‘Mercy’ was heard on quite a few soundsystems during Sonar last weekend. The Kanye-led G.O.O.D. Music track is a banger anyway so Salva and RL Grime decided to give it the full club treatment and the...
View ArticleHudson Mohawke –‘Lambo Furnace’ (Kanye West –‘Mercy’ edit)
Last Friday, I brought you RL Grime and Salva’s edit of Kanye’s ‘Mercy’, the tune of the moment. This Friday, we have a Hudson Mohawke version as played on Benji B in the early hours of Thursday...
View ArticleDisclosure –‘Control’ (video) & Joe Goddard remix
Disclosure’s first video takes their face motif to the visages of a bunch of pretty lads and lasses. Ria Ritchie is the vocalist on ‘Control’ (and she pops up in the video). A remix of the track by Joe...
View ArticleDavid Douglas –‘California Poppy’ (Solar Bears remix)
One of the more well-rounded debut EPs I’ve heard lately is from Dutch producer David Douglas and his Royal Horticultural Society. Named after a 19th century Scottish Botanist (who coined the term...
View ArticleSacred Animals vs Steffaloo –‘On Fire’ (Steve McEvoy Remix)
Taking Sacred Animals vs. Steffaloo’s gauzy and breathy ‘On Fire’, Steve McEvoy’s remix wraps it in beat-driven excursion akin to something from The Field. McEvoy has an impressive Imprints EP also...
View ArticleLOL Boys –‘Changes’ (Star Slinger & Shlohmo remixes)
LOL Boys’ ‘Changes’ has been on the receiving end of some knockout remix treatment in recent weeks. The Friends Of Friends-signed LA duo of Jerome Potter and Markus Garcia have seen their trippy jazzy...
View ArticleRóisín Murphy –‘Simulation’ (Mano Le Tough Remix)
It’s always good to see Irish people together on the international stage, whether it’s the Olympics or music or film or wha (COME ON IRELAND). Here, Berlin-based Irish man Mano Le Tough remixes the...
View ArticleKate Bush –‘Running Up That Hill’ (2012 Remix)
After airing in the Olympics closing ceremony in London last night, a new version of one of the greatest songs of all-time, ‘Running Up That Hill’ was released. Kate Bush’s 2012 remix is modelled on...
View ArticleYes Cadets – new EP ‘Le Mans’ with remixes from Guillemots & more
I’ve had a bit of soft spot for Yes Cadets since seeing them in their hometown of Belfast in the Oh Yeah Centre one Halloween. They released a few songs a couple of years back with ‘Canada’ and...
View ArticleSun Glitters –‘Alone’ feat. Sleep Party People (Tours Edit)
Sun Glitters‘ music is generally of the claustrophic smoke-inhaled variety and that’s certainly the case for Victor Ferreria’s original ‘Alone’. There’s always some obscured melodies in there looking...
View ArticleHear Young Wonder remix Bon Iver’s ‘Perth’
I love Young Wonder’s approach to remixing. There’s no one-sided producer knocking out a rework for cash or blog dollars. Ian Ring and Rachel Koeman collaborate over Bon Iver’s self-titled album’s...
View ArticleTricky remixes Zebra Katz’s anthemic ‘Ima Read’
New York vogue rapper Zebra Katz’s ‘Ima Read’ is a minimalistic club track aiming its menacing beat and vitriol at an unknown enemy with an unknown beef. Released on Mad Decent’s Jeffries label wing at...
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