It's The Mother-Effing Remix

First off, email me your preference for flash player if you even have one. I'm experimenting with the Yahoo one this week, as the Google player doesn't seem to be working for everyone. It's a tad less sleek, but hopefully it's a bit more versatile. Anyway....is it a bad sign when my right hand starts going numb from typing too much? Is that bad? That's that carpal tunnel shit, right? Hmmmm.........well regardless, I have more songs to post, so away we go. Consider today's post simply a companion piece to Monday's cover list, nothing cute to connect the dots. Just some of the best remixes of the past year.

So first up is one doozy of a track. French DJ duo Justice is one of the hottest acts in all of music right now, and I can say from experience that their live act earns every bit of buzz they've garnered. Last week, they debuted a 20 minute electro epic called "Planisphere" to accompany the Dior Homme show in New York. If you haven't heard it yet, you can stream the whole thing at their Myspace Page, and you can certainly find a downloadable version if you search hard enough. But the bottom line is, if you're a fan of the French electro thing, you'll want to listen to this asap. The boys knocked it out of the park on this one, and one could easily argue it's the best thing they've ever done, "Waters of Nazareth" included.


Anyway, less than 24 hrs after releasing it to the net, buzzworthy DJ Immuzikation (who hails from ATHENS, FUCKING GA, a town very close to my heart) condensed it to 7 minutes and mashed it up against various re-mixes of Daft Punk's "Harder....", including of course the one released by one Mr. West last year. As inspiration goes, it may be a bit obvious, but it mashes up predictably well, and ranks altogether as one of the hottest floor-bangers of 2008........phew. Got all that? Well enough bullshit, here it is:

Justice - "Fortisphere"(Immuzikation Re-mix of "Planisphere")

Note: I have no fucking clue why, but for some reason I can't get this song to play in either flash format, so click it straight on to preview, or you can right click to download as usual.

From the hottest DJ act in Europe to the hottest DJ act in America, we come to Girl Talk (aka Pittsburgh's Gregg Gillis) , who released a mash-up masterpiece over the summer, but had time earlier to release his signature kind of remix for Grizzly Bear's standout, "Knife". Now I generally pride myself on being able to recognize all the shit this guy samples, but if you have any clue where the hell he got the sick organ thing that plays for the last minute of the song, let me know, because that's a song I want to own.

Grizzly Bear - "Knife (Girl Talk Remix)"

Moving on from one Bear to another (see what I did there? nice, smooth transition), Panda Bear (Animal Collective founder Noah Lennox) had one of 2007's most beautifully bizarre songs with album opener "Comfy in Nautica". Trippy chanting gives way to Lennox' even trippier vocals, and before you know it, you feel like you just hit an invisible bong HARD. DJ duo Turbostation (Philly's Steven Bloodbath & Johnny Woods) give the song the barest of make-overs: they add a drum machine, a couple of bleeps and extend the opening by about 30 seconds. But sometimes the simplest touches can seriously alter a song's purpose. With Turbostation's touch, "Nautica" is suddenly ready for "da clubz". Or at least ready to be someone's bad-ass pregame song.

Panda Bear - "Comfy in Nautica (Turbostation Remix")

XXXchange (the slightly less saucy half of Spank Rock) did a remix of Santogold's LES Artistes a few months ago that nearly garnered as much attention as the original. After hearing a weird, slowed down perversion of the mix playing in a tragically hip clothing boutique, I managed to track it down on imeem from a random user named "Charlee". I then ripped it, and decided to deliver it to you good people. The end.


Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes (XXXchange Slow Edit)

Swedish breakout Lykke Li has made a serious splash on the indie scene this summer, while last summer's indie darlings The Black Kids have crossed over to the mainstream (tell me a place where you can escape "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance" these days, and I'll meet you there). They're not letting commercial success get in the way of their scenester status, however, and recently banged out a remix for the sexy siren's Fuck Off anthem, "I'm Good, I'm Gone". It's pretty bold to muffle the claps in a song where the clapping's the star attraction, but the track quickly surprises you with the direction it takes. It's less danceable than the original, but sometimes it's ok to just nod your head.

Lykke Li - "I'm Good, I'm Gone (Black Kids Remix)"