For years Noisia have arguably been the D&B crowd’s weapon of choice. Since they have continued to gather momentum through the packed ranks of today’s producers, the Dutch trio have been putting their sticky fingers into other areas, from album production for shitty indie/electropop bands to remixing tracks by The Prodigy and Moby. Doing these remixes is certainly one way of getting noticed, but Noisia have been “noticed” for years, and it is about time that they put out their first full length titled Split The Atom.
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My Brightest Diamond’s A Thousand Shark’s Teeth spent six years in evolution. Conceived as a voice and string quartet affair, the finished record, released in 2008, spanned sonic and emotional extremes, guitars and orchestration flourishing throughout with Shara Worden’s stunning vocals at the helm. Shark Remixes consists of four EPs, with Alfred Brown, Son Lux, Roberto C. Lange and DM Stith re-conceiving the record.
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Ulrich Schnauss has announced plans to release an album of his most recent remixes. Entitled Missing Deadlines – selected remixes, it will be released on March 15th.

The man himself has this to say about the project:
“Essentially what makes me really happy about this album is the fact that it’s a selection of the – in my opinion – best mixes from a musical point of view, rather than a compilation of the commercially most successful ones, or the tracks that have the biggest names associated with them. In all cases, the original songs are already great in their own right – which made it really inspiring to work with them.”

Tracklisting
1 Howling Bells: Setting Sun
2 A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Ghost in the Graveyard
3 Katharina Franck: Faithful Friend
4 Madrid: Out to Sea
5 Asobi Seksu: Strawberries
6 Dragons: Remembrance
7 Aus: Halo
8 Mahogany: Supervitesse
9 Lunz (roedelius & tim story): Lunz
10 Rachel Goswell: Coastline
11 High Violets: Chinese Letter
12 Mark Gardener: Story of the Eye
13 I’m Not A Gun: Make Sense and Loose
14 Mojave 3: Bluebird of Happines

Liars have announced details of an expanded edition of their eagerly awaited fifth studio album, Sisterworld, out on 8th March 2010.

This version comes with a second CD of remixes and reinterpretations of all 11 tracks on Sisterworld from artists including Thom Yorke, Tunde Adebimpe (TV On The Radio), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter / Atlas Sound), Melvins, Alan Vega (Suicide), Chris & Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and Blonde Redhead. Full tracklisting to follow in the coming weeks.

Says Angus Andrew, “On this project we wanted to help develop and expand the role of the remix, particularly to engage artists less acknowledged for their work in the field. They were asked to ‘re-interpret’ the song by any means necessary and the result is definitely the most exciting collaborative effort we’ve been involved in.”

Looks pretty special to me… More news when we get it folks.

We have an exclusive remix to warm your cockles on this cold December morn!

Polly Scattergood – Bunny Club (Remixed by Tara Busch)

We all know and have warmed to Polly’s distinctive female singer/songwriter charms this year, whilst Tara Busch’s remix credits include Tori Amos, Annie Lennox, Bat For Lashes and Polly Scattergood’s “Nitrogen Pink”. Busch is renowned for the use of classic analogue synthesizers and beautiful backing vocal arrangements in the style of 1940’s Disney movies and Pet Sounds – era Beach Boys.

Says Tara of the remix:
“I felt we could build a sort of sonic funhouse for Polly Scattergood’s ‘Bunny Club’, painting an alternate world inspired by the drama of ’70’s disco, sugary sweet, Disney inspired backing vocals atop crunchy electronic drums, vocoded vocals & a bass line that can only be described as ‘what rubber popcorn might sound like when it pops’….all the while retaining the dark undercurrent.”

Enjoy!

More about Tara Busch:
Her debut album ‘Pilfershire Lane’ and limited edition box set available on Tummy Touch Records, and you can find her Blog here and Twitter here.

Saint Etienne released Fox Base Alpha in 1991, when I was aged 5. And I’m sad to say, that for the rest of my life the album passed me by. However, this does, in a way, make me the prime target audience for Richard X’s remix of the album –updating a classic album with a new lease of knob-twiddling life.

So when it comes to what’s been added, taken away, nipped, tucked, surgically enhanced or simply desecrated, I really couldn’t tell you. Judging the calibre of the artists involved though, I can’t imagine that there’s any kind of defilement going on. Continue Reading

SRVC, the Swedish record label for the discerning consumer, have announced release details for the debut album by Korallreven. It’ll see the light of day in Spring 2010 and be titled The Truest Faith.

To celebrate, they’re giving away a remix of Korallreven’s 2009 debut single ‘Loved-Up’. You can grab it HERE.

Nhessingtons (part of the Stockholm based collective Force-Majeure), were asked to take on remix duties. Turning the original on its head, Nhessingtons have created something as fresh and pure as the tidal wave that adorns the ‘Loved-Up’ artwork. Watery.

On 7th July, 2005, a series of terrorist attacks rocked London.

In October 2008, London-based musician, Nitin Sawhney, released London Undersound as a reaction to perceived post-terrorist tensions in the capital. Now in 2009, it would appear that Londoners have just carried on as they would have always done. Though possible to capitalise on misfortune, by no stretch of the imagination did this ever appear to be Sawhney’s intention.

2009 also sees London Undersound Instrumentals and Remixes surface, its need somewhat undetermined. With cover art designed by artist Anthony Gormley, the bold red-and-white colours that comprise the wartime ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ poster come similarly emblazoned on the CD.
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The much loved Vetiver return to return this month with new single “More Of This”. The new single will be released on limited edition 12” vinyl on Monday 30th November and will be backed Andy Cabic’s (the brain behind Vetiver) very own remix of “More of This” – a jam that takes the original, strips it to the bone and then soaks it in some lazy ass African and Hawaiian rhythms. Ends up sounding like a cut from the latest Phoenix record – which is obviously a very good thing indeed. Download the remix below…

Vetiver will play Jazz Café, London on Thursday 10th December with Bees and Fruit Bats.

mp3:> Vetiver: ‘More Of This More Of This (Neighbors RMX)’

DFA Records/Parlophone will release a new collection of remixes of the LCD Soundsystem musical epic 45:33 as a series of vinyl 12″ singles this Summer before dropping the whole set as a CD/Download album on September 14th.

45.33 was originally a one off collaboration on iTunes for Nike, but was subsequently released on and expanded CD & Vinyl in its own right in Nov ’07 due to overwhelming demand for it to physically hold.

James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem, DFA Records founder etc) is currently in the studio recording the follow-up to 2007’s massively critically acclaimed Sound Of Silver album, which is set to drop in early 2010. Watch this space for details and news over the coming months…

45:33 Remixes:
1. Runaway Remix
2. Prince Language Remix
3. Prins Thomas Diskomiks Remix
4. Theo Parrish’s Space Cadet Remix
5. Trus’ Me Remix
6. Padded Cell Remix
7. Pilooski Remix
8. Riley Reinhold Remix

Bloc Party’s frustratingly ill-realised third album Intimacy needed an overhaul, but Intimacy Remixed is not the overhaul it needed. If the original album was the band leaving their rock origins largely behind in a dramatic but alienating shift towards electronica, then Remixed represents the band surrending the entire Intimacy project to a group of electronica remixers to do with it what they wished. It isn’t the first time, of course – Bloc Party did the same thing with their spiky rock debut, but far more so than Silent Alarm Remixed, this is a key chapter in Bloc Party’s transformation not only as a band but also as an ethic and a concept. Continue Reading

Hockey, one of the most talked about bands in 2009, have just finished a sold-out tour with Friendly Fires, but you can catch them playing two shows at this weekend’s Great Escape festival…

Did you see their recent performance on Jools Holland? What did you think our beloved TLOBF readers? Their latest single, ‘Learn To Lose’, is released on 1st June.

In the meantime, we’ve got it first, you can download the Labyrinth remix of the new single below! For free!

Learn To Lose – Labyrinth Remix

One of my favourite pop songs of the year has had the DFA Remix treatment. Yes, Tim Goldsworthy has morphed Swedish pop sex kitten Lykke Li’s breakthrough single ‘Little Bit’ into a nine and a half minute floor filler. Pretty good it is too. Download link below. Lykke Li’s debut album Youth Novels is out now.

mp3:> Lykke Li: ‘Little Bit (Loving Hand Remix)’

“Before we go any further I’d like to show you all a game I made up. This game is called “Sounds Of The Studio” and it can be played with any record, including this one”

The above vocal sample is from Hot Chip’s contribution to this collection of Digitalism remixes, and serves as a neat summary of the album’s ethos. Two things that it would seem to be highlighting are the playful nature of the remixing (“a game“), and the eclectic selection of artists included (“it can be played with any record“). On both scores, it’s fairly accurate. Continue Reading