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Ratatat are something special. There's so much around that sounds the same, and when someone breaks the mould its like being rinsed in fresh lemon juice. They have this fantastic warped synth sound permeated by mettalic guitar strumming and soft keyboard blobbing. Its mainly electro stuff and a cheeky bit hip hopity at times perhaps.

There's also a reasonable mash-up of Justice's We Are Your Friends and Ratatat's Seventeen Years kicking up a fuss over at Hype Machine. Its fairly tight but I'm not sure it adds anything major to either song or creates anything worth writing home about (how ironic you're thinking! He's blogging about it! gah). Don't let it put you off Ratatat themselves though. Just listen to Mirando and the original Seventeen Years and you'll see what I mean.


Justice v Ratatat - We Are Your Friends (Bearbot mash-up)
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Ratatat - Mirando
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Ratatat - Seventeen Years
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EDIT: This offer has now finished.

Hi folks, I was going to take a break for Christmas but thought I'd better alert you to this! Amazon.co.uk are giving £3 off any MP3 downloads from their new MP3 download store. There's no minimum spend and you can get some cracking albums for £3 anyway - so essentially they're free! Just enter FREEMP3S in the voucher code section when you place the order. The offer ends today and is limited to one voucher per customer.

The best ones I have found are:

The Killers - Day & Age

Justice - Cross

Air - Moon Safari

Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke


There's plenty more to choose from at the MP3 store although apart from those above, the selection of £3 albums is fairly poor. Still, if you want to buy anything its nice to have £3 off!

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PHOAR!!!


Justice - Phantom II (Boys Noize unreleased turbine 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

www.myspace.com/buffetlibre

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)

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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)

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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)

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

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