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Sounds Like: Mix chop WOW chop

Brazilian DJs Pristine Blusters sent in a cracking 37 track minimix - Across the Time and I think its certainly Annie Mac worthy. Very nicely mixed. Love the WOW interludes from Salmon Dance.

Download Across the Time

Tracklist:
1 - Turbo Trio - Balança (Killer On The Dancefloor Remix) + Justice - Waters Of Nazareth (Erol Alkan's Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr Re-edit) + Machines Dont Care - Sound Boy Massive
2 - Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger (Diplo Work Is Never Over Remix) + The Knife - Pass This On (M.A.N.D.Y. Knifer Remix)
3 - Cazals - Life Is Boring (Crookers Zuppa del Cazal Remix) + The Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Dance (Crookers Wow Mix)
4 - Mr. Oizo - Patrick 122
5 - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band - A Fifth of Beethoven (Soulwax Remix) + Djd Present The Hydraulic Dogs - Shake It For Me
6 - Crookers feat. MC Dandao - Soca Ali Babá + Database feat. Bonde do Role - Miami (Baile Funk Mix) + Daft Punk - Teachers
7 - Ian Pooley - Rock Da Discoteque (Daft Punk Remix) + Cassius - 1999
8 - Faithless - God Is a DJ
9 - D.S.K. - What Would We Do? (Speed Garage mix) + Pirates Of L.A. River - La Bala
10 - Prodigy - Breathe + Prodigy - Out of Space + Trajic - Stomp + Keith Litman pres. The Kick Junkie - Kick it In
11 - Metallica - Master of Puppets + Kraftwerk - Numbers + M.I.A - Bucky Done Gun
12 - Altern 8 - Frequency + Layizon - The Ride Inside
13 - Mylo - Drop The Pressure + David Moralles - In The Ghetto + Eddie Amador - House Music
14 - Bardeux - Bleeding Heart + Megablast - Bomb The Bass
15 - Instant Funk - No Stoppin' That Rocking + Armand Van Helden - NYC Beats
16 - Bernard Whight - Haboclabotribin

www.myspace.com/pristineblusters

Sounds Like: The start of the festival

I'm not sure how I missed out on these two last year. Fan Death are a superbly named duo consisting of Dandilion Wind Opaine and Marta Jaciubek-McKeever. Yes - I don't know if they're their real names... maybe some people just strike lucky. They sound a little bit like Glass Candy so give them a try if you like that kind of thing.

This is their most well-known track (Erol Alkan's remixed it too) Veronicas Veil - a violin charged, cascading electro affair of mighty proportions.


Fan Death - Veronicas Veil.

www.myspace.com/fandeath

Buy Veronica's Veil @Amazon

Sounds Like: Bliss

A lovely sun-soaked electro take on Kate Bush's classic Running Up That Hill for your Sunday morning delight.


Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (Datassette remix).

www.myspace.com/datassette
www.katebush.com

Musical Mood: Going crazy on the floor
Sounds Like: Madness

Oh come on this is just incredible! Yes its been around for a while but its new two me. Australian sound manipulators Bag Raiders have whipped up a stonking remix of Super Mal's Bigger Than Big and it's one of the best remixes I've heard in ages. I've heard the track on two mixtapes now from Australian DJs: Audageous whose mix I posted recently, and Elaine Benes (whose mix you kind find over at Sundtrak). I just wish this kind of stuff was played more often in, er, Wales.


Super Mal - Bigger Than Big (Bag Raiders remix).

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Musical Mood: Relaxed party, summer party, lounge jazz
Sounds Like: Palm-tree electro

Herve is a man of many side-projects and we've alreadybeen blessed with sweet rewards from his partnership with Sinden as The Count (see Beeper). I'd not heard of his other alter ego "Young Lovers" till I came across this fantastic track Love You Madly, from his forthcoming LP, posted over at Funkism. Can't wait to hear more!



Young Lovers (aka Herve) - Love You Madly.

www.myspace.com/hervespace

Musical Mood: Summer party
Sounds Like: ALL YOU CAN EAT

If summer isn't officially here chronologically, its certainly here meteorologically, so we best make the most of it with some summer tunes. Buffetlibre hae struck back again with a brilliant hour-long mix packed with goodness. Absolute gold once again. See previous Buffetlibre here.

Download Buffetlibre - Hit! 2

Tracklist:
0. Sintonia Buffetlibre
1. Sub Sub – Space Face
2. Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock – It Takes Two
3. Happy Mondays – Hallelujah (Club Mix)
4. Bassheads – Is There Anybody Out There?
5. Daft Punk – Around The World vs. Technologic
6. Robin S – Show Me Love
7. M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up the Volume
8. Junior Senior – Move Your Feet
9. Junior Jack - E-Samba
10. Tim Deluxe Feat. Sam Obernik - It Just Won't Do
11. Armand Van Helden – My My My (Club Mix)
12. Larry Tee feat. Princess Superstar - Licky (Herve Goes Low remix)
13. Switch - A Bit Patchy
14. Kaoma – Lambada
15. Mousse T – Horny (Mousse T's Extended Mix)
16. Kid Cudi - Day 'N' Nite (Crookers Remix)
17. Rozalla - Everybody's Free
18. Thomas Andersson - Washing Up (Tiga Na Na Na Remix)
19. LCD Soundsystem – Tribulations
20. Fred Falke & Alan Braxe – Intro
21. Thomas Bangalter & DJ Falcon (Together) - So Much Love To Give
22. Superfunk – The Young MC
23. Supermode - Tell Me Why (Axwell & Steve Angello Remix)
24. Outlander - The Vamp
25. Kidda - Under The Sun (Herve Remix)
26. Lady GaGa - Just Dance (Make u Deff Remix)
27. Fake Blood – Mars
28. Black Box - Ride on Time
29. Bomfunk MC’s - B-Boys & Flygirls
30. Alexander Kowalski feat. Raz OHara - Hot Spot (girls outside the window)

I'd often heard that Switch track - A Bit Patchy - whilst out but I didn't know who it was by. I've listen to a few remixes, and this is my favourite:


Switch - A Bit Patchy (Eric Prydz remix).

www.myspace.com/buffetlibre

Musical Mood: Post-disco/Psychadelic
Sounds Like: People dropping delicate spanners onto pipes

Simian Mobile Disco are coming to the infamous Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff this 3rd of May and I canne wait, especially to hear their new (ish) song 10,000 Horses Can't Be Wrong. I've also been happily revisiting their album Attack Decay Sustain Release and came across an old favourite I Believe, a track blessed with infectious bloops. I'll just post the original - I was suprised to only get my hands on a couple of remixes, neither of which are that impressive (even Switch). Any one know a good 'un?

Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe.


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Musical Mood: Night-time driving
Sounds Like: Standing on the hills, shouting into the valley.

Bat For Lashes brought out a new album called Two Suns on 6th April accompanied by single Daniel. Edwin Van Cleef has done a fine job of clubbing up the original but its faithful enough to still be a nice entry point for those who are unfamiliar with BFL...Maaah maybe I'll include an old BFL track too just because her voice is undeniably one of the most beautiful I have heard.


Bat For Lashes - Daniel (Edwin Van Cleef remix).


Bat For Lashes - Bat's Mouth.

www.myspace.com/batforlashes
www.myspace.com/evclive
Buy Two Suns @Amazon

Musical Mood: To those Australian dance floors!
Sounds Like: Lots of fun

An Australian chap called Ben sent me a live recording of a mix he played at Shape Nightclub in Perth. I don't know much about Perth. I don't know anything about Shape. I know this is good stuff and it ticks at least a couple of my Australian-friendly boxes - Bag Raiders (tick!), Van She (tick!)...

Audageous - One Night Stand (Live mix recorded at Shape)

Tracklist:
I want you ( TEPR remix ) – Martin Solveig
Bigger than big ( Bag Raiders remix ) – Super Mal
Ghosts N Stuff – Deadmau5
Drop the tough ( Van She Tech remix ) – Groove Armada
ACDG ( TEPR remix ) – Yelle
Tonight – Yuksek
Restless ( Fake Blood remix ) – Unkle
Ready for the floor ( LA Riots remix ) – Hot Chip
Idealistic ( A – Track remix ) – Digitalism
All the cash ( Alex Metric remix ) – Evil Nine
They Live ( Trevor Lovey’s remix ) – Evil Nine
Flickery Vision ( Ruskos stayin awake remix ) – Audio Bullys
Bounce ( Bloody Beetroots remix ) – Mstrkrft
The Geeks were right ( D.I.M. vs Boys Noize remix ) – The Faint
Dem Na Like Me ( A1 Bassline remix ) – The Quemists
Oh! ( A – Track remix ) – Boys noize
Hunting For witches ( Fury666 remix ) – Bloc Party
Crimewave ( LA Riots remix ) – Crystal Castles
Jack got Jacked ( Jack Beats remix ) – AC Slater
Hey You ( Le Castle Vania remix ) – Kill The Noise
One Month Off ( Filthy Dukes remix ) – Bloc Party

www.myspace.com/audageous

Musical Mood: Electro
Sounds Like: A stuttering robot fed up of factory work

I have a tendency to skip over Daft Punk remixes - either with my eyes when I see them in my inbox, or with my feet when they lie down in front of me in the street. There's an obvious reason why - they're often rubbish. I think we can safely say that every interesting take on Around The World has been taken and every re-make of One More Time has been made. And rarely are these track harder, better, faster or stronger than the originals (oh gaaaaawd).

Still, despite that slating paragraph, I actually quite enjoyed this snippy, choppy vocal remix of Technologic. I'm sure there's plenty of similar remixes out there, but I wouldn't know, I've been skipping over them.


Daft Punk - Technologic (Balboa remix).

www.myspace.com/daftpunk
Buy Human After All @Amazon

Rough Genre: Dub/Pop/God I don't know
Sounds like: Changy guitar, woobly bass, a nice break from electro!


The Hundreds In The Hands - Dressed In Dresden.

And here's a sort of dub version of the track, all smoothed over into a loppy trumpet pokey light-hearted limbo dance affair:




www.myspace.com/thehundredinthehands

Rough Genre: Dub, Electro, Post-disco
Sounds like: Turning round and round, looking up at the lights

So Calvin Harris went a little bit house on us with his new single Not Alone which was pretty unexpected. But I really the like the track and the way Calvin defied a mass of greedy bloggers clamouring around trying to get their insatiable paws on his gold by ripping it from his Myspace. If you haven't heard, he popped up a slightly altered version containing frequent lyrical interruptions about his nan. Cracking. Anyhow, I assure you this Deadmau5* remix contains no grandma references. And its a glorious dubby style take on the original. Post-disco = yes!


Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone (Deadmau5 remix).

www.myspace.com/calvinharristv
www.myspace.com/deadmau5

* For those interested, the name "Deadmau5" does upset me somewhat. I've developed the habit of calling cats "maos", so as you can see, the name has brutal connotations.

Rough Genre: Electro
Sounds like: All my limbs have fallen off and begun to dance

I say new, I think they sent me this stuff a few weeks ago. New orginal called Baby I'm Bored and a couple of jaunty remixes, particularly liking the Kovak rumble.


Billion Dollar DJs - Baby I'm Bored.


Kovak - Electric City Lights (Billion Dollar DJs Sleep Deprivation mix).


Mc Gi - Sai Fora (Billion Dollar DJs remix).

www.myspace.com/billiondollardjs
www.myspace.com/kovakuk
www.myspace.com/mcgii

Rough Genre: Acoustic
Sounds like: La la la sunny afternoon

Another track I heard on Skins. Think this was in the 6th episode (series 3). The tracks called Walking and its one of those guitar plucky reflective tracks that are just nice. The Dodos are pretty similar to Noah and the Whale, Rogue Wave, Ra Ra Riot - that kind of thing.


The Dodos - Walking
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Incidently, I thought I heard of these folks before and when I heard this track Red and Purple it certainly rang a bell. So I don't know if this one's been doing the rounds on the radio circuit - if it hasn't - listen up Radio Two!


The Dodos - Red and Purple
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www.myspace.com/thedodos
Get The Dodos - Visiter for a fiver @Amazon

Rough Genre: Electro/Experimental Electro
Sounds like: An Orchestra of Bubbles!

Orchestra of Bubbles comes bursting out of the German experimental electro scene. The album is a beautiful, melodic collaboration from Ellen Allien and Apparat and fittingly titled! I've got a couple of tracks here for you to sample. If you like them, go and buy!

I should say thanks to Cat who is the reason I ever heard of this album.


Ellen Allien and Apparat - Do Not Break.


Ellen Allien and Apparat - Leave Me Alone.

www.myspace.com/ellenallien
www.myspace.com/apparat
Buy Orchestra of Bubbles @Amazon

Musical Mood: P.A.R.T.Y.
Rough Genre: Electro

Some fantastic, happy Australian electro for you. Bag Raiders are like a super upbeat Cut Copy with bells attached. I've included the Calling In Sick remix for download - there's a cracking build at 1.18 in. Fun fun fun!


Bag Raiders - Fun Punch.


Bag Raiders - Fun Punch (Calling In Sick remix).

www.myspace.com/bagraiders
www.myspace.com/wearecallinginsick