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17 year-old DJ/producer Clockwork dropped a few remixes in my inbox the other week and I thought I'd share a couple of my favourites. Clockwork did a nice job on Cut Copy's Hearts on Fire which popped up on Cassette Culture a while ago when We All Want Something to Shout For did a guest post for me. This Grum track is great and I'll never say no to New Order. There's a certainly a lot of potential here - I look forward to hearing some more adventurous mixes in the future from this guy.


Grum - Woah (Clockwork remix)


New Order - Crystal (Clockwork remix)

www.myspace.com/clockworkhomie
www.myspace.com/grummmusic
www.neworder.cc/

This is probably the last track I'm going to post from my Daft Monkey mix. Its a nice take on Hot Chip's "Ready For the Floor" from LA Riots. And as a bonus, if you like quite minimal, chilled out electro music (or your simply bored of the Fake Blood version) - here's the Turmstrasse remix of Touch Too Much as well.


Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (LA Riots remix feat. Villians)


Hot Chip - Touch Too Much (Turmstrasse remix)

www.myspace.com/hotchip
www.myspace.com/lariotsofficial
www.myspace.com/turmstrasse

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Its 9am UK time and I've had very little sleep. Foamo was playing Cardiff last night at Clwb - I'll be sure to post about that later. For now, I'm not going to say much except happy happy music:


Kidda - Under The Sun


Kidda - Under The Sun (Herve remix)

www.myspace.com/kiddauk
www.myspace.com/hervespace

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Hi I just want to apologise for some of the track previews not working. Ever since Cassette Culture went up on Hype Machine I've been swamped with readers and I almost immediately exceeded my bandwidth on Fileden! I'm trying to keep the latest tracks active by shifting them around places, unfortunately I cannot afford to pay for more bandwidth so please bear with me while I try and find some free solutions. As I said, all the latest tracks should be working and all the downloads will be working fine. Hope your enjoying CC X

Japanese Popstars have released a track called "Electric Poet" to celebrate their new album 'We Just Are'. Their gaining momentum with a eries of awards and favourable magazine reviews. Impressively, Mixmag proclaims that "they might also be the most exciting electronic act on the planet". Less impressively, Electric Circus say they are "One of the hottest electro acts to come out of Ireland recently" ...do a lot of hot electro acts come from Ireland? If you are a hot electro act from Ireland please e-mail me to correct my ignorance. Anyway, that has nothing to do with Japanese Popstars who are pretty fantastic. As well as Electric Poet, check out their remix of Spoon and Tong's "Gas Face" which you might of heard pop up in my Daft Monkey mix.


Japanese Popstars - Electric Poet


Dave Spoon & Pete Tong - Gas Face (Japanese Popstars remix)

www.myspace.com/thejapanesepopstars
www.myspace.com/tongspoon

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I know this track is all over the place but I had to post it as a big Metric fan. Its called "Help I'm Alive" and its really moody and melodic. Metric have a really simple quality sound thats quite refreshing and a joy to listen to. This one preceeds their 2009 album, currently untitled, which I cannot wait for.


Metric - Help I'm Alive

And here's a blast from the past. This is the first Metric track I ever heard - via MSTRKRFT remix:


Metric - Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT remix)

www.ilovemetric.com/
www.myspace.com/mstrkrft

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Hi just a quick one - Annie Mac's minimix podcast was pretty good last Friday (21st). Worth checking out just for Little Boot's minimix at the beginning if anything.

Clicksy here to download:
Little Boots/Erol Alkan/Friendly Fires - Annie Mac Minimix

Annie's mash-up homepage (you should be able to find the tracklist here):
www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/mashup/

Now I'm going to be quite honest and admit that I've been desperately trying not to post this track. Sometimes I scare myself with my music snobbery. A few days ago I found the notion of posting a Killers track as something quite revolting. I ain't jumping on no bandwagons I said. Well, that's a ridculous line to take when you think about because, really, there is nothing wrong with jumping on bandwagons. When you like something you like. Best off enjoying it on a bandwagon in the company of others.

Enough of wagons. This is it. The Killers - Human. Remixed of course. God I wouldn't be seen posting the original.


The Killers - Human (Ocelot remix alternative edit)

www.myspace.com/thekillers
www.myspace.com/ocelotmthrfckrs

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Surkin is a young, talented French DJ who initially caught my eye with this track "Next of Kin" which popped up in the Justice set at The Warehouse Project. Todd Edwards has done a cracking remix too. Keep your eyes on this guy.


Surkin - Next of Kin


Next Of Kin (Todd Edwards Re-Kindled Mix)


And if you like those you'll love this. A 26 minute mix called "Gloves Off". I love the start!

Surkin - Gloves Off Mix

Tracklist:
Surkin - White Knight Two Intro
Fred Falke - 8:08pm @ The Beach
Dj Ayres - Nu Nu & Mr Kirk's Nightmare
Planet Patrol - Play At Your Own Risk Beat
Feadz -Suck It
Dj Kenny B, Dj Patrick - It's Hot In This Mother Fucker
Mainx - 88 to Piano / Cool Jack - Jus Come
Kazey - Sweet Harmony
Chemical Brothers - These Beats Are Made For Breakin'
Hit House - Jack To The Sound Of The Underground
Micronauts - High Rise (Das Glow Remix)
Samantha Fu - Theme From The Discotheque
Nicolas Vallee - New York
Surkin - Kid Gloves
Orange Lemon - Dreams Of Santa Anna
Bobmo - Rock The
Surkin - Next Of Kin (Todd Edwards Remix)

www.myspace.com/surkin
www.myspace.com/toddedwards

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Another track from the Daft Monkey mix. Crystal Castles did this amazing version of Van She's track "Sex City". Now after a bit of jiggery pokery from Nasty Nav we have...


Crystal Castles - Vanished (Nasty Nav remix)

www.myspace.com/nastynav
www.myspace.com/crystalcastles
www.myspace.com/vanshe

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This track appeared in the 50 most popular on Hype Machine the other day and thank God I picked it up before it was drowned in Britney Spears and Killers tracks.

Anyway, this tune has such a catchy little electro overlay that you'll all be getting your keyboards out. Be ahead of the game, get YOUR keyboard out now.



The Hours - See The Light (Calvin Harris remix)

www.myspace.com/thehours
www.myspace.com/calvinharristv

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{ Here's another track from my Daft Monkey mix. This one preceeded that stunning Alex Metric track. Sunshine Brothers have done a hell of a job on Justice's DVNO, fusing it into some kind of bouncy wander through Willy Wonkas chocolate factory. From what I can tell, Todd Edwards was involved somewhere along the line. I don't know where these blokes came from. All the other tracks on their Myspace are jaunty reggae numbers and they decided to remix Justice... Very odd, very good. }


Justice - DVNO (Sunshine Brothers remix)

www.myspace.com/toddedwards
www.myspace.com/etjusticepourtous

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I promised to post some tracks from my Daft Monkey live mix last week. I'm going to start off with an Alex Metric track that I stumble upon 5 minutes before I played my set (God knows how) and loved it so much I quickly fashioned some kind of shifty blend over from the Sunshine Brothers remix of DVNO. Its called "Deadly On A Mission" and its bloody good.


Alex Metric - Deadly On A Mission (Alex Metric mix)

www.myspace.com/alexmetric
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This bass heavy dancefloor remix of A1 Bassline arrived in my inbox yesterday from the Billion Dollar DJs. Its a pumpin'!


A1 Bassline - Girl Thing (Billion Dollar Djs 90's Kegger remix)

www.myspace.com/billiondollardjs

In the summer I bought myself a Hercules console and set about learning how to mix by pressing buttons and hitting stuff. I made my first pre-recorded mixtape a while ago but didn't feel it was good enough to share here. My next effort is a little better but still very amateur! In no way am I proclaiming this to be anything amazing at all - I just thought a few of you might like a listen and if anyone can give me feedback, positive or negative, I would really appreciate it. The mix is a live set I played at a party in Cardiff last Tuesday and I've called it "Daft Monkey" (there's a lot of Daft Punk in there)

I'll be posting some of the tracks over the next week or so - look forward to that!

Tom Hardwicke - Daft Monkey (360 kbps MP3 version - 86Mb)

Tom Hardwicke - Daft Monkey (High quality WAV version - 382Mb)

Tracklist:

1. Daft Punk - Ouverture + Utah Saints - Radio One minimix sample
2. Miami Horror - Summerfest '86
3. Daft Punk - Human After All
4. The Count and Siden - Beeper
5. Justice - DVNO (Sunshine Brothers remix)
6. Alex Metric - Deadly on the Dance Floor (Alex Metric mix)
7. Armand Van Helden - I Want Your Soul (Fake Blood remix)
8. Nirvana vs Disco Trash Music - Smells Like Neon Spirit
9. Crystal Castles - Vanished (Nasty Nav remix)
10. The Whip - Blackout (Shinichi Osawa remix)
11. Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (LA Riots remix feat. Villians)
12. Daft Punk - Technologic
13. Daft Punk - Prime Time of Your Life (Night Facilities remix)
14. Alex Gopher - Aurora (Shinichi Osawa remix)
15. Dave Spoon & Pete Tong - Gas Face (Japanese Popstars remix)
16. Mystery Jets - Half In Love (Foamo remix)
17. MGMT - Kids (Soulwax remix)
18. Daft Punk - Aerodynamic (Northie remix)

Bit of a break from the electro now. I did an interview with Jack from Bombay Bicycle Club (BBC) ages ago and I can't believe its taken me this long to post it. I say an interview - I'll be honest, it was more a series of shoddy uninspiring questions that I thought might produce vaguely interesting responses. Jack's been good enough to reply so I thought I'd whack it up anyway.

BBC popped up a couple of years ago on my radar - an indie band with clearly a lot of talent for thier age and some really unique vocals. They have just finished thier A-levels and released "Evening Morning" which I think is a stunning track. Have a listen below then read what Jack had to say about making love, airfix planes and music. He's even put together a hypothetical mixtape for us but I don't have all the tracks so that bit is probably the most unprofessional piece of blogging you've ever seen.




Cassette Culture (CC): Are you enjoying touring at the moment?
Jack, Bombay Bicycle Club (JBBC): We only just got back, it was an interesting experience, i think we learnt alot.

CC: So where did the name 'Bombay Bicycle Club' come from?
JBBC: It's our favourite curry house.

CC: Are you good friends with any other bands? I see Cajun Dance Party feature on your MySpace page...
JBBC: We're friends with Cajun, but we are kind of socially retarded whenever we're together as a band.

CC: Do any of you have any other interesting hobbies aside from music?
JBBC: We like making love and making airfix planes.

CC: Are you still a fan of Bert Jansch and The Carter Family? Who else are you all listening to at the moment?
JBBC: Yes i am still a fan, right now i'm listening to lots of stuff on a label called Jahtari, which is like if king tubby used a laptop instead of his great mixing desk.

CC: Who writes the lyrics? Is there a particular process you go through when writing them?
JBBC: I write the lyrics, there is no process, it's usually just before we have to record them or play them live.

CC: What are your views on how the Internet is changing the way music is discovered and distributed? Good thing/bad thing?
JBBC: it means there are loads of terrible bands around. But it is amazing nonetheless.

CC: What's next for BBC? Are any of you planning to go to university?
JBBC: We all got offers from university, but we don't want to make any definate plans. Anything could happen.

And here's Bombay Bicycle Club's mixtape:

Our mixtape is called "Can't get enough of your ass-thetics"

1. mr scruff - fish
2. madlib - dear god
3. dodos - god?
4. dirty projectors - rise above
5. fanzine - tonight
6. bass clef - cannot be straightened
7. metronomy - trick or treatz
8. yo la tengo - the story of yo la tengo


www.myspace.com/bombaybicycleclub
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The Manchester Warehouse Project is now in its third year. DJs from across the world head over to the city between September and January to populate a derelict urban location and blow the place apart (with music) - this year's location: under Piccadily Station.

So last night I found myself crammed amongst a small army of sweaty blokes as French legends Justice stomped around under Piccadily Station shaking the brickwork. They pulled a good set, I wouldn't say brilliant though. It was just so packed in there. You spent half the time shifting around as pricks in sunglasses placed an affectionate yet firm hand on your shoulder and with a "cheers mate", preceeded to stand on your toes. The crowd responded the most to Justice's own tracks. The people catching trains above must of wondered what the hell was happening when Genesis broke out of the speakers.

I was mightly impressed by Australian duo The Presets who have popped up on Cassette Culture before. I walked in as Talk Like That was starting and knew I was in for a good night.

So here's a Chibuku themed gift, Talk Like That from The Presets and the Datsu remix of Genesis.


Justice - Genesis (Datsu remix)


The Presets - Talk Like That

www.thewarehouseproject.com/news/
www.myspace.com/etjusticepourtous
www.myspace.com/thepresets

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This guest post comes from Will at We All Want Someone to Shout For who has selected a few of his favourite electro tracks for us to indulge in.
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There is so much great music these days it is hard to summarize the various feelings that electronic music can give you. When most people think of electronic they generalize it to stuff that makes you want to show your moves on the dancefloor. However when you really look deeper there are some deep electronic based tracks that are moody, dark, and haunting. These are songs you can listen to in the darkest of nights, and feel the glow radiating off of them. I am growing fonder of electronic/dance music as each day goes on. Thanks to Tom for letting me post on his blog, and here are a few of my favorite electronic tracks.


Pantha Du Prince – Saturn Strobe


LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends


Cut Copy – Hearts On Fire (Clockwork remix)

www.myspace.com/panthaduprince
www.myspace.com/lcdsoundsystem
www.myspace.com/cutcopy

There are few songs that I listen to for the first time ever and think "this is brilliant". Here's one of those few tracks:


DJ Mujava - Township Funk

Yep its a low quality track! Buy it you fiends!

www.myspace.com/mujava

Hi sorry apparently Savefile is down so no-one can download anything. Hopefully things will be sorted there soon. There's not really any point in this message because there's nothing anyone can do. Just wanted to post Monkey really ^.

*** by the way I'll post some music tomorow X