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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).

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This mixtapes 85 minutes of cracking tunes old and new. Its a fantastic piece of work, blending popular, often mainstream songs (e.g. Eric Prydz – Call On Me) with the less mainstream (e.g. Soulwax – Ny Lipps). Fun for all the family!

And while were here, I stumbled on this site run by the Buffet Libre chaps. If you're into remixing your own stuff check this out - they're giving away parts for loads of tracks from Cut Copy to Voxtrott. Mighty!

Download link for the mix is below and I've popped up a few of the tracks for you to download too, just click away in the tracklist.

Tracklist:
1. Sintonia Buffetlibre
2. 2 Unlimited – Get Ready For This (Orchestral Version)
3. Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control (Soulwax remix)
4. Snap – Rhythm Is A Dancer
5. Daft Punk – One More Time
6. Eric Prydz – Call On Me
7. Justice vs Simian– We Are Your Friends
8. And One – Metal Hammer
9. Les Rhymes Digitales – (Hey You) What's That Sound?
10. Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
11. Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler
12. Gala – Freed From Desire
13. Wildchild - Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old Skool remix)
14. Armand Van Helden – You Don’t Know Me
15. Soulwax – Ny Lipps
16. Whigfield – Saturday Night
17. Mylo vs. Miami Sound Machine - Doctor Pressure
18. Modjo – Lady
19. Justice – D.A.N.C.E. (Mstrkrft remix)
20. Run DMC – It’s Like That
21. Ann Lee – Two Times
22. Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy Hey Girl
23. Alter Ego – Rocker
24. Tomcraft – Loneliness
25. Basement Jaxx – Red Alert
26. Cassius - Feeling For You (Les Rhymes Digitales remix)
27. Tiga & Zyntherius – Sunglasses At Night
28. MGMT – Kids (Soulwax remix)
29. Josh Wink – Higher State Of Consciousness
30. Scatman John - Scatman
31. Digitalism – Pogo (Shinichi Osawa remix)
32. Vitalic – La rock 01

Download Hit! here

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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)

Now I love Daft Punk. I don't like having favourites but these guys are pushing first place on my imaginary wall chart. If there was a wall chart about electronic music artists, Daft Punk would be bold, italicised and bright blue.

Anyway, the point is, in 2006 Daft Punk made a film - Electroma. I only found out it existed a few days ago and watched it for the first time last night... I have very mixed feelings. The cinematography was incredible: beautiful landscapes, nifty camera angles and throughout a kind of elegance that was quite "calming" as my housemate described it. Ironically - nothing like a Daft Punk set then.

Yet the pace was slow slow slow. Very slow. This is not an accessible film, its about as experimental as you can get. There is no diaglogue at all and the plot seems to stumble between moderate comedy to well no plot really for a while whilst the two main characters take a good half or so walk through the desert.

So in essence, it was a hugely paradoxical experience. Partly I was full of appreciation for the camera work, the fantastic scenery and some great songs (no Daft Punk though), but it was far too slow-paced. No-one wants to sit and watch two robots walking for half an hour. Thats the kind of thing you project on a wall in a bar and people go "Oh how cool is that", then have a drink, talk with friends then look back and say "Ha they're still going. Crazy robots".

I'll be interested to see Interstella 5555, a film which Daft Punk wrote the script for and provided the soundtrack in the form of their album Discovery.

Anyway, I need to share this scene with you from Electroma because its just beautiful (have an open mind!):