Midnight City (The Knocks Cover)
The Knocks have teamed up with Mandy Lee to do a cover on M83′s ‘Midnight City’. It’s already getting a lot of love from a lot of blogs, and we’re jumping the bandwagon. Good cover, deserves a lot of attention.
Mixed Messages
One more track by Bastian then. This one’s titled ‘Mixed Messages’ and it’s a bit more up-tempo from most of their work. The band’s front-man Bas Bron can also be found on Soundcloud under his moniker Seymour Bits. There’s a really smooth free track up there titled ‘When Seymour Sleeps‘. This track below is titled ‘Mixed Messages’, from Bastian’s ‘There’s No Such Place‘ album.
Diggin’ Ray Charles
Seems like we’re posting mashups every day now. Today it’s MashMike‘s turn. What’s in a name, right. The German mashuppeteer blends Kanye West’s ‘Gold Digger’ and Chiddy Bang’s ‘Ray Charles’ instrumental. Nice fit, too bad for the poor audio quality at some points.
Sail (WhiteNoise Remix)
Just before the weekend, based-in-Holland-born-in-Germany producer WhiteNoise dropped a new remix. A pretty heavy one. He took on Awolnation’s ‘Sail’, from the remix contest that ran in August and September of last year. And no surprise, Awolnation scream-singing throug a bassline that sound like a bad-ass lawn mower just works really well.
Touch & Go
More music by the Dutch band Bastian, a project by producer Bas Bron and some of his closest friends. The second free track from their album ‘There’s No Such Place‘ is titled ‘Touch & Go’. A proper electro-funk-rocker, with some serious Lenny Kravitzness going on at 1.21. More about Bastian soon, look out for them on the upcoming Jackplug podcast.
A Conversation Between Time & Pride
Treekeeper is a 19-years-old producer from Nashville, TN currently living in Burlington, NC. Together with Louisville rapper Macro he has a pretty interesting EP up on Soundcloud titled ‘Welcome to Bohemia’. (Follow through and listen to the entire EP. It’s worth the exactly 20 minutes of your time.) One track on the EP is titled ‘A Conversation Between Time & Pride’, it’s featured below. Proof that the EP is pretty damn brilliant both lyrically and musically.
California Rain
Our latest discovery in an ever growing pool mashup kids is Toronto-based NoteGeek. He does a fine job at mashing op uber-corny pop songs. Though we might not be the biggest fans of the music he uses, we admit these mashups are just really really smooth. His latest mixdown is a good example. Katy Perry’s ‘California Girls’ acapella over Adele’s ‘Set Fire To The Rain’ instrumentals. Everybody’s mother’s mother will recognize this.
We Found Love (Kid Smpl Remix)
Seattle’s Kid Smpl delivers a pretty deep rendition on Rihanna’s ‘We Found Love’. The entire idea of this being a ‘radio song’ is ripped out, and instead Simpl sets a pretty unique atmosphere with just a few lines from the original acapella and aditional synths. Good idea, great job, awesome vibe.
Tenderly (Melé Remix)
And literally seconds ago while I was writing this, Annie Mac uploaded her weekly ‘Annie Mac presents..’ track. This week she’s promoting a fantastic remix by Melé on ‘Tenderly’ by Disclosure. So in true tradition of annoying Facebook comments: FIRST.
Mr. Quiche
Just found this very nice recording titled ‘Mr. Quiche’ by a three-headed L.A. based group named Wildcat! Wildcat!. (Jesse Taylor, Michael Wilson & Jesse Carmichael.) The band is part of a creative collective called ‘Black Eye Music’, which all revolves around band-member Wilson and the collaborations he does with friends. This is one of two tracks they have published on Soundcloud, buy you’ll probably like both of them.
B4 The Night Is Thru (FS Green ElectroLove Remix)
Have been meaning to post this for a while. (Steve‘s been telling me to post this over and over, I keep forgetting ) A month ago, Amsterdam’s FS Green remixed Jesse Boykins III‘ ‘B4 The Night Is Thru’. We know FS Green for his different styles of production. In the past months we’ve seen him producing Hip Hop, a little bit of Moombahton, Dubstep and more. This remix leans a bit more towards a way-past-midnight-kinda-house music.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings
London record label Bella Union is introducing a pretty cool new act on their website. His name is Father John Misty and the label is pushing his track ‘Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings’. FJM has got an album coming up on April 30th, titled ‘Fear Fun’.
Nye Nummer Et
Another label, NYC based Ghostly International, is pushing a band called Choir of Young Believers. They’re a Danish band of seven from Copenhagen. Their album ‘Rhine Gold’ will be out March 20th on Ghostly, and the label is giving away two track if you go here.
Summit (Shy KidX remix)
And finally we post another Skrillex remix. It’s been a while. Italian duo Shy KidX took on ‘Summit’ from Skrillex’ ‘Bangarang EP’. (That one track with a few seconds of Ellie Goulding in it, you know..) The result is a (relatively short, 3.53) crunchy dubstep/drum’n'bass hybrid. This ought to wake you up from hibernation.
Tongue Tied (Gigamesh Remix)
In a recent radio show we interviewed Dutch disco duo Keljet, and they praised the heck out of Gigamesh. They were absolutely right, as the Minneapolis producer is on an absolute winning streak. Today he releases his latest remix, on ‘Tongue Tied’ by Grouplove. (He spelled it as ‘Tounge Tied’ though. Did he just Gigamisspell, or did we?)
Youth (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix)
Sounds like there’s a hint of Flux Pavilion in Adventure Club‘s latest remix. The Canadian remixers have just released their remix on ‘Youth’ by a young femme from the UK named Foxes. Is that synth a VST preset or did they actually tweak a synth into sounding all Pavilionish?
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