Today, because it’s cold and dark and I need some comfort food, the theme is something like new, great remixes of album tracks from album that came out kind of a while ago and meanwhile there have been a bunch of other remixes of all the other tracks already but these are still really good, so whatever. All of these give their source some fantastic new life.
As far as I can tell, the new late 2009 Aeroplane remixes (Au Revoir Simone, Robbie) are a nice window into what their album will be like when it hits next spring. Here’s another that’s been teased around for a while, and it’s another short, ultra-melodic stormer of a remix for – well, I guess I broke my theme already. “Brazil” isn’t an album track, it was a b-side to the 7” release only of the third single from their album (if you can’t get any more of an afterthought than that…) and this mix is a one-off that showcases the best of both Doves and Aeroplane in just a hair over 5 minutes. Tremendous.
♫ Doves – Brazil (Aeroplane Remix) ←♥♥♥♥♥
Buy the Winter Hill single with the original track here.
Even further back into history, Sebastien Tellier released an album and it was good. There have been remixes from perhaps everyone in the history of recorded music, some great and some a bit frustrating (how long ago was it when the big, big news was a SebastiAn remix of the first single?) and now we have a couple more stragglers – this time, mixes of album track Fingers of Steel – from Record Makers. This is easily the freshest of the bunch, from New York’s quickly rising Penguin Prison. Absolutely love the drums here, and if mixes from Sexuality can keep up this level of quality, bring them on!
♫ Sebastien Tellier – Fingers of Steel (Penguin Prison Remix)
Buy Sexuality if for some reason you haven’t yet here.
King of Town had a couple fantastic remixes last year of They Came from the Stars I Saw Them and The Phenomenal Handclap Band and promptly fell off the radar for a little while. He’s been back in action the last few months, and this is a really inspired official reworking of a track I had forgotten about completely from an album I had forgotten about completely. Anyway, nobody can say now that whoever is comissioning remixes at Domino for Franz (could be the band themselves, anyone know?) has been on point, with The Juan Maclean, Whomadewho, Beyond The Wizards Sleeve, Max Tundra… and now this. There’s really a sense of the cinematic here like in the best Aeroplane mixes but stripped back, a little bit colder and wiser. Another King of Town mix coming soon for Detachments, check for that.
♫ Franz Ferdinand – Send Him Away (King of Town Remix)
The Live Alone single is out now on Domino. Buy it here.
Here’s a little bonus for you. We always get a great response from What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow? stuff – here’s an original track they put up for download (a “demo that’s been shape shifting in the palm of their hands for a while now” according to the press release) as a teaser before their EP release next month.
♫ What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow – Unanswerable
Beyond all this, congrats to the Alkans for their own new little Ekstra Spektral Rework!
