OO its getting close to Christmas and so... here is an entirely un-christmasy tape. Never mind, I'm sure you're getting your Christmas fix elsewhere. I won't be updating Cassette Culture till January now because I'm having a bit of a holiday! So I hope you enjoy this tape. See you in the New Year.
Italians Fare Soldi bring us their track Tutto Tutti Sempre Subito a gloriously rapid electro chirper.
Fare Soldi - Tutto Tutti Sempre Subito
Le Castle Vanias remix The Virgins track Rich Girls. Massive.
The Virgins - Rich Girls (Le Castle Vanias Spring Break No Parents remix)
An absolutely storming remix of The Yeah Yeah Yeah's Cold Light by French duo Les Petits Pilous.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cold Light (Les Petits Pilous remix)
Here's Hot City with their grooving track Head Work. It sounds a little like an electronic bag pipe / wailing spanner.
Hot City - Head Work
Australian artist Pogo weaves together short samples from films and other sources to create beautiful electro tapestries. Featuring samples from Mary Poppins Expialidocious is just one of many great Pogo tracks.
Pogo - Expialidocious
A cool, atmospheric piano track from Deadmau5. A relaxing way to end. Faxing Berlin.
Deadmau5 - Faxing Berlin (Piano version)
Cassette #6 Under Bridge (Mixed by Cassette Culture)
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So sorry about no tape last week, things got very busy and I ended up on a mountain. No Internet up there... This weeks tape owes a lot to a post on the Too Many Sebastians blog from which I nabbed three cracking tracks from We In Music, Hey Champ and the Priors. Star of the show though is the In Flagranti remix of Ali Love's Smoke and Mirrors which is perhaps the coolest song of the month, at least. Enjoy =D
A remix from the super-talented MMMatthias. This echoey munchcin is quite light hearted affair, a nice builder.
Its been a while Cut Copy! We've not seen much from these Australian electro terriers for a long time now. This is their remix of quirky American band The Juan MacLean's track Happy House which they twist into that much-loved Cut Copy sound. Launch me into space...launch me into space...
The Juan MacLean - Happy House (Cut Copy remix)
By far the best track I've heard in the last few months! I love this to bits, its just makes me dance all, over, the, place. In Flagranti remix Ali Love's Smoke and Mirrors.
Ali Love - Smoke And Mirrors (In Flagranti remix)
We In Music is a collaboration project of Raw Man (see below), Play Paul (Paul De Homem-Christo - one half of Daft Punk), Benjamin Diamond (of Stardust) and Curtis (Fabien Lefrançois). So with all that French talent pumped into one song you can see where this going.
We In Music - Time Unlimited
According to Too Many Sebastians (to whom this blog is massively indebted), the following two remixes were part of an exchange. Hey Champ remixed Priors track What You Need in return for a Raw Man (one half of Priors) remix of Neverest. I'm finding it pretty hard to keep track of whose one half, quarter or eighth of what but the tracks are damn good.
Hey Champ - Neverest (Raw Man remix)
Priors - What You Need (Hey Champ remix)
Good old Royksopp, still churning out deep, wholesome downbeat electro sprinkled with those sweet mellow vocals. The Hungarian Beyond Deep remixes their track Tricky Tricky.
Royksopp - Tricky Tricky (Beyond Deep remix)
Cassette #5: Smoke and Mirrors on the Dancefloor (mixed by Cassette Culture)
Cassette #5: Smoke and Mirrors on the Dancefloor (all zipped up small)
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Sorry folks no tape this week. Tune in next Sunday though!
If magic chickens made music instead of golden eggs, I think we'd see something along the lines of this lot. The mix is here.
Mainframe is a new light 'n beaty instrumental from Kris Menace under the name Love on Laserdisc. EP out soon.
Love on Laserdisc - Mainframe
Favourites of last week's tape, Fear of Tigers and Edwin Van Cleef (who I incorrectly said was French when he's actually from Leeds - oops!), come together in one cracking package. The Adventures of Pippi Longstrump, a track from Fear of Tigers impending album does its superb name justice in this mighty remix.
Fear of Tigers - The Adventures of Pippi Longstrump (Edwin Van Cleef remix)
Apparently partly educated by a Japanese robot called Victor, Golden Bug is the chap behind this electro number that REALLY gets good when Gloves does a rewrite and we hit 3 mins in...
Golden Bug - Last Dance In Tokyo (Gloves rewrite)
Well I was faffing around making the mix of this week's tape and I couldn't find a new track that fitted in so I just whacked in an old Van She Technologic remix. Bizarrely, Van She Tech remixed this track by accident. Apparently the manager of a band sent them the parts for this I Am Finn track instead of the band they were actually supposed to be remixing. And I don't think anyone, including Van She, has heard anything from I Am Finn since!
I Am Finn - I Love You (Van She Tech remix)
Simian Mobile Disco have just released a bizarre video for their track Cruel Intentions. Does any one know what that's about?? It's certainly one of the better tracks from their Temporary Pleasure and Beth Ditto does a grand job on vocals. This is the scrunched up Joker remix.
Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions (Joker remix)
At first the name Jonathan Boulet conjured up images (and sounds) of a James Blunt type figure, strumming out some generic guitar music and generally annoying everybody. Well, I've come to the conclusion that that perception was entirely based on the fact that they both have the initials JB and it is a complete myth. The real Jonathan B is actually a 20 year old "wonder boy" signed to the Australian Modular Records. This is the ambient Album Leaf remix of his track A Community Service Announcement, a nice quiet one to end of this week's tape. You can download the original for free at LastFM.
Jonathan Boulet - A Community Service Announcement (The Album Leaf Remix)
Cassette #4: Whack An Egg In It (mixed by Cassette Culture)
Cassette #4: Whack An Egg In It (all tracks zipped up small)
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Susan was at the park and sat under a tree, with her book, her bike and a flask of hot chocolate. This weeks tape is named after her! Download mixed here.
Something a bit different to start things off - electro-strings! Twirling violins make this electro number stand out from the rest. Something A La Mode with Rondo Parisiano.
Something A La Mode - Rondo ParisianoA classic mid-set track from Soulwax's Dewaele brothers, produced under the pseudonym Samantha Fu, Theme from Discotheque is a just a cool man talking and then some smacking beats. The Mixhell edit makes the floor shake a little more.
Samantha Fu - Theme from Discotheque (Mixhell Edit)
Producer Edwin Van Cleef has recently released an E.P. Overtaken. Well worth checking out if you enjoy the Fear of Tigers track below.
Japanese/British electro man Fear of Tigers will be dropping us an early Christmas present on December 1st when he releases his album Cossus Snufsigalonica for free. Here's one of his older tracks Sirkka for you to get a taste of things to come.
We've been hearing some great Classixx remixes but how about checking out some of their originals. Here's the Douster remix of single I'll Get You.
Classixx - I'll Get You (Douster remix)
New Crystal Fighters track I Love London will be released on Nov 30th on Kitsune. Here is the cracking Jocks remix.
Crystal Fighters - I Love London (Jocks Dawn in Dalston mix)
The beautiful lyrical meanderings of Phoenix have been re-crafted by many and this is one of my favorite tracks, Fences. Slower and softer.
Cassette #3: Susan At The Park (mixed by Cassette Culture)
Cassette #3: Susan At The Park (zip file)
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Some more fantastic tracks this week. A lot of good stuff coming out of Neon Gold these days and I'm still stumbling on some brilliant quirky French bands. This was supposed to be posted this coming Sunday but I'm away so its an early one. Hope you enjoy it. Grab it mixed here.
Fresh French band Jolie Cherie ease us in with their track Barcelona. Rhythmic beaty electro-pop is their nature and quirky vocals a staple of their songs. Certainly ones to watch. Their track Star recently featured on the Kitsune Maison 8 compilation and is also well worth checking out.
Electro-house producers Super Mal gear things up with instrumental track Blood and Sun.
French band Pony Pony Run Run have hit the ground running with their first single Hey You. This remix by Crystal Fighters is something to reckon with. Get Pony Pony Run Run's album here
Penguin Prison, label buddy of Marina and the Diamonds and Passion Pit (who?) on Neon Gold, is stirring up some interest round these parts. A Funny Thing is just the beginning I feel...
Another band from the Neon Gold label, Wolf Gang with their track Pieces of You remixed by Baby Monster.
Finally a beautiful track from Groove Armada entitled I Won't Kneel. This ones lightened and tightened by The Bloody Beetroots.
I Won't Kneel (The Bloody Beetroots Remix).
Cassette #2: The Uninitiated Pear-Ring (mixed by Cassette Culture)
Cassette #2: The Uninitiated Pear-Ring (zip file)
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Ok here is the first ever weekly Cassette Culture cassette. Exciting no? This one tells the story of a boy called Brian and a girl called Abigail. Make up your own though because that's mine. Download each track individually, download them all in a one go or download my shambolic attempt to mix them (constructive criticisms very welcome), I don't mind. Please have fun and let me know what you think.
We kick things off with Thunderbird from atmospheric electro-pop outfit The Golden Filter. The start of this is like emerging into the sunlight through one of those beaded doorway curtains. Something we should all do at least once in our lives.
The Golden Filter - Thunderbird
Oh my oh my. I couldn't believe my ears when I first heard this. Quite an old Bag Raiders track if my sources are correct. Ever since I heard Shooting Stars I was expecting something big from these guys, but in my opinion, this track Smoking is pretty damn big! Incredibly catchy. Smokin' one might say. Try not to smoke.
Bag Raiders - Smoking
Two Door Cinema Club are another sterling indie band to fall into the hands of French fashion house trend setters Kitsuné. Its entirely justified, after listening to this French Horn Rebellion remix, head over to their myspace and listen to Do You Want It All and Something Good Can Work.
Two Door Cinema Club - I Can Talk (French Horn Rebellion remix)
As Marina softly tip-toes after La Roux into the bright lights, we can indulge in this cracking remix from Russ Chimes. AMAZING, full stop.
Marina and the Diamonds - Mowgli's Road (Russ Chimes remix)
I was lucky enough to see Grum live at the Warehouse Project in Manchester last week where a small crowd gathered to witness his set. Everything was bouncing along quite comfortably until he whisked up Heartbeats which I think is one of the electro-disco anthems of the year. Everyone else seemed to think so too because it kicked off in there! This is the remix from the equally promising Joe and Will Ask? who will probably be popping up in a future CC tape no doubt.
Grum - Heartbeats (Joe and Will Ask? remix)
I stumbled on this track last week and its been at the forefront of my playlist ever since. Lisa Mitchell's sunny vocals potter around as Australian duo No Device turn the washing machines on. Superb.
Lisa Mitchell - Coin Laundry (No Device remix)
Cassette #1: When Brian met Abigail (Mixed by Cassette Culture)
Cassette #1: When Brian met Abigail (Zip file)
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Hello. It's back. There's going to be a new format.
Cassette Culture will now hold truer to its name and its purpose. Every Sunday will see the posting of an 6-8 track mixtape featuring both the old and the new. You'll be able to download track-by-track, the tape as a whole or my (clumsy) effort to mix it all together.
This way I hope you will find new music because if you see a track or an artist on the tape that you like, then you will probably like some of the others.
Let me know what you think.
Cheers,
Tom
So you may have noticed that Cassette Culture hasn't been updated in a long while.
I've just moved to Bristol and everything's been a bit up in the air.
I've also begun to question if this blog is doing any good. There's a fairly large readership but I'm worried it might be largely composed of people popping in from Hype machine for the free downloads.
At this point I don't know if Cassette Culture will carry on but please, for now, keep subscribing to the feed and check back in a few weeks.
See you soon X
The Dø By André Gabb*link removed*
The Dø - The Bridge Is Broken.
www.myspace.com/thedoband
Buy The Do - A Mouthful @Amazon
Whose this character? By karen.tkrFelix Da Housecat - Elvi$ (2ManyDJs bootleg).
www.myspace.com/felixdahousecat
Kläder & Vapen - My Heart Still Beats For You (Radio edit).
Kläder & Vapen - What Have I Done (David E Sugar remix).
Kläder & Vapen - What Have I Done (Extended mix).
Kläder & Vapen - Electri-fi.
www.myspace.com/kladervapen
Andrew Friendly and Rokk Odyssey - Rhythm Is A Dancer (Snap cover).
Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer.
Buy @Beatport
Photo by Darwin BellFrom tame beginnings, this tune soon growls at you like a grizzly duck.
Its angry and it wants some bread.
Alexander - Spend a Little Time (Milke remix).
Theatre of Disco: ocassionally soft, ocassionally jivy, occasionnally explosive. Mmmmmmmhmmmm! This band is alive with a sort of restrained energy, like a monkey being desperately held back by friends as he watches a bad man chopping down his banana tree.
Yet more Australian groove soldiers you cry! Well yes so it would seem. These guys have been around a while as far as I can gather but I've just picked up the Twelves remix of their track YOA which is incredible. I can't quite make out the lyric but if she says "pony pony" when it all kicks off then this could be the greatest song in the world. So enjoy then have a wander over to their Myspace and listen some more.
Theatre of Disco - YOA (The Twelves remix).
www.myspace.com/theatreofdisco
Here's a video made by some Californian art students for the Cinnamon Chasers track Luv Delux. Its a really great video, fantastically filmed and a gripping story* and I can't stop listening to the tracks, a nice spacey wumble.
*if a little creepy when the knife comes out!
www.myspace.com/cinnamonchasers
YACHT have an album called See Mystery Lights: a journey of interesting noises, both vocal and instrumental. Everything moves along alright till you reach the end of track 4 and right there in front of you, giggling to itself behind the bushes, is a truly lovely track called Psychic City. Catchy, quirky and vocally dynamite (boom). If this hasn't been chuggin' around in Topshop or Urban Outfitters at some point I'll eat something nasty. It's that kind of song.
Here 'tis along with the Classixx remix (ok, but I expected more) and an instrumental version.
Yacht - Psychic City.
Yacht - Psychic City (Classixx remix).
And for you creative types here's the instrumental version* for you to play with:
Yacht - Psychic City (Instrumental version).
*you can pick up a free instrumental version of YACHT's album See Mystery Lights at the free music archive.
www.myspace.com/yacht
www.myspace.com/classixxmusic
Buy YACHT - See Mystery Lights
By SlinkachuNow for music. A song I've had sitting around for a while by Joe and Will Ask? Fabric of Win is an upbeat, hurdy-gurdy. Gloriously danceable. And as far as Joe and Will Ask? go, watch this space.
Joe and Will Ask? - Fabric of Win.
www.myspace.com/joeandwillask
Also if you fancy something a bit more gritty I have a track from Sharooz, Adrenalize and Phonat's dubstepy type remix. Bit gruff I suppose for Cassette Culture's usual halloo but worth a look.
Phonat - Learn To Recycle.
Phonat - Set Me Free (Extended mix).
Sharooz - Adrenalize.
Sharooz - Adrenalize (Phonat remix).
www.myspace.com/phonat
www.myspace.com/sharooz
Visitor - Los Feeling (Monsieur Adi remix).
www.myspace.com/visitorlounge
www.myspace.com/monsieuradi
It is not irrational for a child with no knowledge of astronomy to think they can climb a tree and reach the moon.
Photo from Rockmixer
I've been sitting on this track for a while and so I think have a lot of frustrated bloggers. We're all eager to post this because it comes from a man called Grum.
Grum has been hanging around in electro alley for a while now throwing remixes at people and is finally poking his head out into the brightly lit streets. His latest release Heartbeats is an infectious, feel-good electro-disco track that seems to cheerfully extol such virtues as dancing with no shoes on, painting every fence blue and eagerly conversing with the unfriendliest of the jaguar.
On the downside, as far as I am aware the track is currently exclusive to Beatport where you can bag it for a hefty £1.73 no whistles included. If you want the whistles, their £1.73 a piece. My my.
So's you lot ain't leaving empty handed, here's a mighty minimix Grum did for Radio One.
Grum - Minimix
Tracklist:
1. Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
2. Duran Duran - Girls On Film
3. Donna Allen - Serious
4. Foreigner - Urgent
5. B.W.H - Stop
6. The Flirts - Passion
7. Digital Emotion - Dont Stop
8. Toto - Africa
9. Moroder - Im Left Youre Right
10. Thomas Bangalter - Turbo
11. Fischerspooner - Get Confused
12. Grum - Woah
13. Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
14. Telex - Moskow Diskow
15. Robbie Williams - Lovelight (Soulwax Remix)
16. Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
17. Kenny Jammin jason with Fast Eddie Smith - Can U Dance
18. Justice - Newjack
19. Human League - Dont You Want Me
20. Go West - Goodbye Girl
21. Expose - Come Go With Me
22. Orbital - Lush 3-1
23. Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
24. Pointer Sisters - Dare Me
25. Le Knight Club - Soul Bells
26. Styx - Mr Roberto
27. Kano - Another Life
28. Felix da Housecat - Control Freq
29. Company B - Fascinated
30. Grum - Sound Reaction
31. Doctor’s Cat - Feel the Drive
32. Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy (Grum Remix)
33. Outrage - That Piano Track
34. Grum - Runaway
35. Fleetwood Mac - Never Forget
www.myspace.com/grummmusic
You Can Have It So Much Better is quite a grower - and by that I mean, by the time you've finished your first listen you'll have grown to like it. The wurbly, slightly haunting vocals glide along nicely over a busy synthy playground until suddenly were hit with a saxophone (yahoo!), turning everything into some kind of jazz bar dream (you know those dreams you get when your just walking through a jazz bar and everyone is playing the saxophone?).
Then we have Right from Right. This one's a bit more upbeat, with a cheery, bound-along kick off. The remix by MXQ (I don't know who this is!) isn't that great but it features one of those nifty little vocal glibs which isn't really a word but everyone bloody loves it. So I include that too.
So that's City Calm Down. For now. I expect there will be much more to come and hopefully more saxophone suprises.
City Calm Down - You Can Have It So Much Better.
City Calm Down - Right From Right.
City Calm Down - Right From Right (MXQ remix).
www.myspace.com/citycalmdownmusic
Believe it or not that's a real photograph up there taken with an old stereo camera. Its incredible it looks almost like a painting. It was taken in Sri Lanka which used to be called Ceylon. Apparently if you were knocking around on the beach and felt thirsty you would just shimmy up a nearby coconut tree and drink up. I saw a coconut for 39p in Morrisons yesterday. I would pay 100x that to be able to shimmy up a nearby tree for my coconuts.
Sticking with the tropical theme, this songs called Jungle Drum and its a cracker. If you need brightening up, you've just fallen in love or recently joined your local tribe (make sure they're into drumming!) then this is the song for you. This remix sounds pretty much like the original its just bumfed up a little. But please be kind, honourable and generous by buying the original.
Emiliana Torrini - Jungle Drum (Tolo remix).
www.myspace.com/emilianatorrini
Buy it (original)
So we've heard of Bloc Party and we've heard of Ladyhawke and to be honest we've probably heard every One More Chance and Paris Is Burning remix we ever want to hear and we're all getting a bit bored... but that's where Alex Metric comes in. I've yet to here a duff mix from him. More Alex here.
Bloc Party - One More Chance (Alex Metric remix).
Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning (Alex Metric remix).
www.myspace.com/blocparty
www.myspace.com/alexmetric
Well whoever thought Marina was a robot is going to be very very embaressed when they hear this song. Marina is going from strenth to strength with a new EP out called Crown Jewels and a position on the NME Radar tour - so she must be cool. I'm thinking not long before she hits Radio One A time and we have another La Roux on our hands (not that that's such a bad thing). See more Marina on Cassette Culture here.
Anyhoo this is a lovely sleepy remix from Starsmith with a deep mini-cresendo at 3.38 to stop you lolling into oblivion which is handy if your operating a forklift.
Marina and the Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot (Starsmith 24 Carat remix).
www.myspace.com/marinaandthediamonds
Buy The Crown Jewels EP @7Digital
Thanks to Chris for finding this one for me.
Delorean - Seasun
Delorean - Seasun (John Talabot's Kids And Drums remix).
www.myspace.com/deloreandanz
Buy AyrTon Senna EP @Emusic
Mmm summer...Organ Morgan is the alias of a friendly chap called Mathew Mayes who hails from my very own town of Cardiff. Mathew could well be what we've all been waiting for - a summery, ambient sound bursting with delicious sample fruits, brilliantly weaved together into slow, meandering and tranquil melodies.
It's like eating a really really good crumpet.
And while Mathew works on his 26-track album (yeeeup!), he has generously offered us this EP, entitled 'Cocaine Afternoon EP', free for our listening pleasure. I can see all three of these tracks sitting alongside those of Lemon Jelly and The Avalanches themselves, and that's certainly no bad thing.
Here's the line-up, and afterwards I bet you can't wait for more:
1. Cocaine Afternoon
2. Do Not Disturb
3. Broken Heart
Organ Morgan - Cocaine Afternoon.
Organ Morgan - Do Not Disturb.
Organ Morgan - Broken Heart.
www.myspace.com/organmorganmusic
