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Musical Mood: Stay in bed
Rough Genre: Light electro

A classic Sunday morning track - if you wake up to this you'll just drop off back to sleep again. And probably feel great about yourself (listen to the lyrics). If you think you've heard this before you might of heard it on Skins recently.


Tujiko Noriko - White Film
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www.tujikonoriko.com/

Musical Mood: Walking home from the bakery
Rough Genre: Electro

Joakim is another brilliant French producer/DJ bringing us some superb electro goodness. I love these two tracks. Teenage Kiss is a little more upbeat, you could dance to it if you wanted! I Wish You Were Gone is a bit more relaxing, the intros lovely.


Joakim - Teenage Kiss (dub)
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Joakim - I Wish You Were Gone (12' version)
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www.myspace.com/jimibazzouka

Musical Mood: Relaxing
Rough Genre: Acoustic

Rogue Wave covered this Yeah Yeah Yeah's track for a romantic compilation CD called Sweetheart (full tracklist here). And I've fallen in love with it! aha...

No it is actually really good - listen:


Rogue Wave - Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover)
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Buy Rogue Wave - Asleep At Heaven's Gate @Amazon

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Musical Mood: Walking home from the bakery
Rough Genre: Electro

Remember the MMMathias remix of Bloc Party's Signs I posted a while ago? Well here's more of the good stuff. MMMathias has just released a new mix tape, cunningly titled Gold MMMix and its a grand blend of Signs-like soft and tingly remixes with a few upbeat womblers for good measure.

I've also included the MMMathias Saglaepor remix.

Tracklist:

1. Muscles - Sweaty (Shazam Remix)
2. Digitalism - Zdarlight (Bag Raiders "shout it out" Remix)
3. Feist - My moon, my man (Boys Noize Remix)
4. Klaxons - As above, so below (Justice Remix)
5. MGMT - The youth (MMMatthias Remix)
6. Pony Pony Run Run - Star Survivor (Russ Chimes Remix)
7. Azzido da Bass feat. Jence - I want you (MMMatthias Remix)
8. Bloc Party - Signs (MMMatthias Remix)
9. Sigur Ros - Saeglopur (MMMatthias Remix)
10.Empire of the sun-Walking on a dream (Treasure Fingers Remix)

MMMathiass - Gold MMMix


Sigur Ros - Saglaepor (MMMathias remix)
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www.sigur-ros.co.uk
www.myspace.com/mmmatthias

Musical Mood: Like, going to sleep and then being woken up
Rough Genre: Electro

If you haven't heard of La Roux yet, best check out my previous post on their first single Quicksand here. This Skream take one their track In For The Kill is like two separate remixes. Until 4.10, you could quite happily be lulled to sleep by the thing. Then there's a crafty late pick up where one of your legs might start shaking. But they'll be no dancing. It doesn't quite reach that stage.


La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream remix).

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Buy La Roux - In For The Kill @Amazon

Musical Mood: Relaxing
Rough Genre: Folk

Heard this track in the 6th episode (series 3) of Skins. Its really pure and tranquil, just Vashti's soft vocals, a flute type instrument and some light guitar plucking. La la la la la.


Vashti Bunyan - Diamond Day.
www.myspace.com/vashtibunyan

Musical Mood: Walking home from the bakery
Rough Genre: Rock/Pop/Electro

I don't think I'd ever heard a good Beatles remix before the Streetlab boys sent me this cheeky number. Nice 'n choppy.

I used the "I don't really wanna stop the show!" section in my mix for Gruvi the other week as a sort of outro.


The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Streetlab remix)
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www.myspace.com/streetlab

Musical Mood: Like a dream
Rough Genre: Electro

I found this amazing Royksopp remix of DJ Spiller track Cry Baby on Youtube yesterday accompanied by a beautiful line art video. I didn't think I'd heard of Spiller but he has quite a famous track you'll probably recognise - Groovejet - which you can watch here.

The Cry Baby video* below is fantastic. It touchs on those little quirks of human interaction and relationships that make you smile when you notice them. Stunning.

*EDIT: someone's pointed out that the video is actually for Zero 7's track Destiny - see here

DJ Spiller - Cry Baby (Royksopp remix)
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www.myspace.com/djspiller
royksopp.com

Musical Mood: Upbeat and happy!
Rough Genre: Jazz/Soul/Electro

In an effort to interest a new generation of music fans, the Verve record label decided to open their vaults to a host of budding remixers asking them to work their magic on some classic jazz and soul tracks. The results, in my opinion vary enourmously, but Verve have released a series of compilation albums which have been fairly successful. The tracks I have here today are brilliant renditions. First up, Diplo reworks California Soul into an atmosphere building intro track. Second, possibly one of the best remixes I've heard in a long time, Felix Da Housecat sets to work on Nina Simone track Sinnerman and comes up with a mind-blowing, danceable track. I think this is probably exactly what Verve had in mind. Finally, this Archie Shepp track kicks off straight away. Great remix from Mondo Grosso.


Marlena Shaw - California Soul (Diplo's Mad Decent mix)
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Nina Simone - Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat's Heavenly House mix)
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Archie Shepp - Blues For Brother George Jackson (Mondo Grosso Next Wave mix)
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Buy Verve Remixed 2 @Amazon

Musical Mood: Relaxing with a punnet of Spanish strawberrys (alhough try and buy local - its greener!)
Rough Genre: Electro

Another mellow Sunday morning track for you. The lyrics are a little depressing I admit and yes the song is called Burial but if you switch off a bit its quite relaxing. Enjoy.


Miike Snow - Burial (DJ Medhi remix)
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www.myspace.com/miikesnow
www.myspace.com/djmehdi