THROAT MONKEY

I was informed by a misguided individual the other day that you can’t like electro if you like minimal.

He obviously thought he had a valid point, but it’s a bunch of closed minded crap - like saying you can’t like rock if you like roll, if you know what I mean.

Anyway, here’s Trevor Loveys banging the hell out Claude VonStroke’s ‘Chimps’, and Sebastian Leger reworking ‘Deep Throat’.

mp3: claude vonstroke - chimps (trevor loveys remix).
mp3: claude vonstroke - deep throat (sebastian leger remix).

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DISKO FUNKIE COOKIE

Here’s something weird and wonderful from way back, the sound of Cookie Monster getting down to some serious disco, and talking all about cookies, naturally.

It’s basically music recorded for Sesame Street in the late 70’s, given a funky going over by the late, great New York dj Larry Levan (The Paradise Garage) and Manhattan disco dj Roy Thode.

The original promo was changing hands for over £100, so Ninja Tune re-issued it a couple of years back with a re-edit by Ninja Tune artist Strictly Kev aka Dj Food, who reworked his remix of the infamous Pointer Sisters track ‘Pinball Number Count’ to good effect.

mp3: cookie monster - c is for cookie (larry levan funky version).
mp3: cookie monster - c is for cookie (roy thode sweet version).

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CHILLIN’ ON GUNPOWDER

Mathangi ‘M.I.A’ Arulpragasam is back representing The World Town with new album ‘Kala’ [named after her Mother], out August 20th through XL. The follow up to 2005’s ‘Arular’ [named after her father] is causing plenty of justifiable fuss and see’s her broadening her appeal.

Switch brings the noise on the majority of the tracks which we’re recorded in India, Japan and Trinidad, and which which feature an array of gun shots, car sirens, village choirs and radio fuzz. Nigerian MC Afrikan Boy, Tim ‘Timbaland’ Moseley and a group of Aboriginal street kids The Wilcannia Mob are also thrown into the mix.

‘Kala’ is a fresh, well rounded release and you’ll probably already know XR2, Bird Flu and Boyz, so here’s a couple of other picks from the bunch - album opener ‘Bamboo Banga’, which is based on the Jonathan Richman’s proto-punk classic ‘Roadrunner’, and the slow grime of ‘$20′.

mp3: m.i.a - bamboo banger.
mp3: m.i.a - 20 Dollar.

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ROBOT REALIGNMENT

image by bistrosavage.

Here’s three more robot reworkings for the beginning of the week. Bjork’s Timbo produced robot cruncher ‘Innocence’ benefits from a Simian Mobile Disco twist, the Eric Morillo & Futureheads mash-up goes electro with Andy Styler, and CSS get down with Streetlife DJ’s.

mp3: bjork - innocence (simian mobile disco 12” mix).

mp3: morillo vs futureheads - dance about it later (andy styler mix).

mp3: css - lets make love (streetlife dj’s wordyrappinhood mix).

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DRIPP MIX

Fergie - Fergalicious (Adam Bartas & Dean Papps Remix)

Count Of Monte Cristal - Ghetto Bitches (Original Mix)

Steel Lord - Dirty Muthafucka (Crookers Remix)

Nelly Furtado - Maneater (Dean Papps Remix)

Trevor Loveys - Finger Jackin’ (Original Mix)

Groove Armada ft. Mutya Buena - Song 4 Muyta (Boris Dlogosch Remix)

Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Guns N Bombs Remix)

Beat Flippers - Rock It Don’t Stop It (Kim Fai Remix)

Burufunk. Carbon Community - Community Funk (Deadmau5 Remix)

Daft Punk - Face To Face (Demon Mix)

Pharoahe Monch - Body Baby (Count Of Monte Cristal & Sinden Remix)

Armand Van Helden - I Want Your Soul (Crookers Crunk Remix)

Daft Punk - Technologic (Vitalic Remix)

Claude VonStroke - The Whistler (Vandalism Remix)

Melle Fresh & Deadmau5 - Whispers (Deadmau5 Mix)

Kleerup ft. Robyn - With Every Heartbeat (Corenell Remix)

53:18 mins/128kbps/48:81mins.

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SANFRANDISCO

Here’s a couple of rare, early tracks from the ‘Sanfrandisco E-Pee’ by the gentlemen of Hot Chip.

Released back in ‘01, and later re-released in ‘03, through their own Ringsting Recordings imprint, this release saw the Hot Chippers move away away from the sparse acoustic melancholia of their debut ‘Mexico’ and experiment further with the lo-fi techno bleeps of disco folk, a sound which they would further develop into the tracks we know today.

mp3: hot chip - sanfrandisco.
mp3: hot chip - h.o.t.c.h.i.p.

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TIMELAPSE RENO BALLOON RACE

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UNSHAKABLE HIPPY

Cynically tortured and well travelled beatnik Eugene Francis Jr is Welsh but was apparently raised by native american and inuit eskimo parents on a steady diet of country, blues and folk music, although when he misbehaved he was made to listen to 80’s synth-pop or ambient.

Following stints at a London University studying the cosmos, and presumably finding nothing, and playing in as many different bands as possible, and finding nothing there either, he packed his bags for the US, where some enlightened soul told him to ditch his current pop-rock sound and do something that he could call his own.

The result is the album ‘The Golden Beatle’ which is being championed by Coldplay guitarist Will Champion. This is suitably leftfield ‘folktronica’ that Eugene has come up with, aided and abetted by ‘harmonious, beatnik supergroup’ The Juniors who, we’re told, have all their own teeth but with some robotic parts and bionic vocals.

New single ‘Poor Me’ came out last week - pick up the mp3 at 7 Digital or the vinyl at Rough Trade - and was backed by this song ‘Kites’.

mp3: eugene francis jr - kites.

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MESHACH MUSIC

New Yorker Meshach Jackson is responsible for some of the most tripped out, heartfelt, experimental songwriting I’ve heard in a good while.

Similar in parts to where [Deftones] Chino Moreno’s is coming from with his side project ‘Team Sleep’, there’s a very dramatic element to the layered, atmospheric music that builds and twists through tight bass and drum arrangements.

The real deal here is Meshach’s voice, which can’t fail to grab you, and which brings real soul and emotion to the proceedings.

The aptly titled 4 track EP ‘Experment In Drowning’ has just been released and you can hear the streams on Meshach’s Myspace page. Also, get over to Meshach’s blog Mayor of the Internet for some intelligent observation, because let’s face it, you’re not going to get any here.

Here’s the first single in two parts, the excellent ‘Smile/Immovable You’ followed by the electronic wig out of ‘Shrug/Stop the Smile’.

mp3: meshach jackson - smile/immovable you.
mp3: meshach jackson - shrug/stop the smile.

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JUSTIFIED AND ANCIENT

Bill Drummond and Jimmy Kauty certainly made an impact on the late 80’s/early 90’s music scene as The KLF, also known as The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu.

Probably best known for their art projects and stunts, along with some seminal acid house tracks and a handful of ‘Stadium House’ tracks - ‘What Time Is Love?’ being the first in the series of these. It achieved top ten chart success internationally, with the follow up ‘3 a.m. Eternal’ hitting the top spot in many countries. 1991 long player ‘The White Room’ is still highly regarded today.

Their notorious ‘violently antagonistic’ farewell performance at the Brit Awards show in 1992, in which they did a rendition of ‘What Time Is Love?’ with hardcore punkers Extreme Noise Terror stunned the gathered musos’s and executives, although they had planned to throw buckets of blood over the audience.

At the end of the performance they announced through a loud speaker ‘The KLF have now left the music business’ and later that evening dumped a dead sheep at the entrance to one of the after show parties, with the message ‘I died for ewe—bon appetit‘ tied around the unfortunate beasts middle.

This was interpreted, again, as just another in a series of stunts, although Drummond and Cauty have since insisted that none of them we’re ‘pranks’ or ‘publicity stunts’, rather just gut reactions to situations - fuelled by the influence of the chaos based religion Discordianism - something they constantly referenced throughout their work.

Following the retirement they established The K Foundation, engaging in a number of art projects and media campaigns, most notoriously filming themselves burning the £1 million left over from the KLF earnings in KLF: The Documentary.

They also wrote the hilarious ‘The Manual: How To Have A Number 1 The Easy Way‘, which has since successfully been put to use by some recording artists.

mp3: the klf - last train to trancentral.
mp3: the klf - america what time is love?

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PROMISES PROMISES

God bless hat wearing Mancunian Damon Gough aka Badly Drawn Boy. His latest single ‘Promises’, the third to be taken from last years album ‘Born In The UK’, is a wonderfully honest and heartfelt love letter/ballad that rises above the mediocrity that presently permeates much of the UK music scene.

Following a tour of the UK’s finest chip shops, a sell out UK headline tour and a more recent sold out US tour, Damon seems to be back to his best form. He was on TV last weekend at a beach festival, and although it wasn’t the height of summer it was pretty hot, and he still had a big woolly hat on.

These two classy remixes are pretty fantastic, taking the euphoric piano and string breaks of the original and running with them. Reverso 68 make it funky with a chilled, bass heavy reworking and Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve provide a more uptempo, sprawling feel.

mp3: badly drawn boy - promises (reverso 68 remix).

mp3: badly drawn boy - promises (btwz reanimation).

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MORE MUTYA

It’s perplexing how many people rate the latest single from Groove Armada, but it’s pretty harmless stuff.

It features the slightly bored tones of Mutya Buena, who, after years of doing this kind of thing, still manages to look uncomfortable and like she’d rather be elsewhere - a talent carried over from the early Sugababe days.

Here’s two of the many remixes that have given the original plodding effort a much needed boost. Boris Dlugosch is on fine form again and A1 People add their future disco sound, but don’t stray too far from the original.

The cd and vinyl releases also come with reworkings from Sunset Strippers, Kissy Sell Out, TV Rock, Linus Loves and My Digital Enemy.

mp3: groove armada - song 4 mutya (boris dlugosch remix).
mp3: groove armada - song 4 mutya (a1 people panic remix).

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FIVE FOR FRIDAY

It’s the start of the end of the week:

The Droyds - Take Me I’m Yours (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)

Armand Van Helden - I Want Your Soul (Deekline & Wizzard Mix)

Supermal Ft. Luciana - Bigger Than Big (Braun Reynolds Mix)

Britney Spears - Toxic (Armand Van Helden Remix)

Gorillaz - Dare (Dave Aude Club Remix)

24:16mins/128kbps/22.22mb.

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KNIGHT INDUSTRIES

This great bit of late night 80’s analog house from Greg Oreck and Holmar Filipsson aka Thugfucker came out at the end of last year on a 12″ with the equally good Disco V.

It’s been included on the recently released Global Underground : Afterhours Ibiza which comes in five different formats, and it’s on the 12″ EP release which features tracks from Loose Canons, Gossip, Sebastian Tellier and Peter Bjorn And John.

You could almost imagine The Hoff banging this on K.I.T.T’s stereo, although he’d probably bin it on a corner these days after one too many, while popping out for a burger.

mp3: thugfucker - knightrider.

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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Adapted from the Cormack McCarthy novel of the same name, which took it’s title from the W.B. Yeats’ poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘No Country For Old Men’ should see the Coen Brothers return to form after some recent iffy outings.

Set in the stark landscape of the Rio Grande, a former soldier stumbles across the remains of a drug deal gone bad and winds up with millions of dollars that don’t belong to him. He’s then basically pursued by the drug cartel who want their pay off, and the customers agents, who want their money back.

Some initial test screening reactions complained about the films pace, its length and the prolonged scenes of gratuitous violence and gore - and the film has all of this - I suppose it just depends what you like.

More in the vein of the Coens early efforts, ‘Blood Simple’ and ‘Miller’s Crossing’, it’s a slow moving, character driven thriller with a great cast including Josh Brolin, Kelly MacDonald, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson, plus a totally unhinged and genuinely terrifying Javier Bardem.

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