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Van She are re-releasing "Kelly" with various remixes - Breakbot, Cut Copy, Fred Falke and Alan Braxe to name a few. The most distinctive of the lot is Shinichi Osawa's take. Great track:


Van She - Kelly (Shinichi Osawa remix)

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This is a stunner! More from this guy soon - he's playing Cardiff in November =D *glee*


Mystery Jets - Half In Love With Elizabeth (Foamo remix)

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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!):

So with less than a week till Halloween, lets get in the mood eh! Billion Dollar DJs sent me their Halloween mixtape a couple of days ago. Its brilliant! Just don't listen in the dark. Although you might not see much you know on the tracklist there are some recognisables in there - Rockwell - Somebody's Watching for instance. It doesn't matter anyhow, this listen's like bobbing for apples, sinking your teeth into a crispy fresh one and rising from the bowl of off-kilter water to the cheers and admiration of your peers.

As always with Billion Dollar DJs, well crafted, original and worthy of some hefty applause.

Chuckii Booker feat John 'Crypt Keeper' Kassir - The Crypt Jam
Goblin - Tenebre (Main Title)
John Carpenter - The End (Disco Version)
Ministry - Everyday Is Halloween
SSQ - Tonight (We'll Make Love Until We Die)
The Bollock Brothers - Horror Movies
Arch Oboler - Drop Dead Interlude
Mark Ayres - Nightmare On Elm Street Theme
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching
Marketts - Out Of Limits
Hashim - Al Naafyish (The Soul)
Pulsailama - Devil Lives In My Husbands Body
Honeymoon Killers - Wait And See
Flirts - Teenage Werewolf
Metronomy - Trick Or Treats
The Immortals - Ultimate Warlord (Remix)
The J Geils Band - Fright Night
Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps
Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened
France Gall - Frankenstein



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I posted about a great South Central remix of The Whip's Trash back in August. Yesterday, after bumbling around on thier Myspace, I came across this track, 'Crystaling' which blew me away.


South Central - Crystaling

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