Tokyo Police Club out of Canada have been remixed by these guys I just found out about called the Remix Artist Collective, and if you check out the latter's website, you can find streams of more of their work (including Bloc Party, The Shins, and M.I.A., among others). I don't know too much about RAC, but their remix seems to me to have enhanced TPC's original many times over. Tokyo Police Club's latest album A Lesson In Crime came out last year and it has got to be the shortest, greatest indie rock kicker of 2006.
Throw together the Norwegian disco-rock band Datarock and UK electro-dance maestro Riton (link to his remixes) and you have one of my favorite remixes of 2007 so far. Although the original version of "Fa Fa Fa" is one hell of a fun dance song, Riton ups the ante and turns up the remix factor to 11.
Riton has been pumping out so solid remixes for the past few years, including Chromeo, Mystery Jets, and Para One, and has a new 12" out called "Hammer of Thor." But instead of sharing that as well, I'm throwing in his cover of The Cure's "Killing An Arab" from his 2004 release, Homies and Homos.
I can't remember where I first read a blurb about Atlanta, GA's Snowden, but I definitely remember putting off grabbing their album from eMusic since I was going on a family vacation for almost two weeks last December. Thankfully, I didn't put off checking them out completely and ever since experiencing Anti-Anti (released on Jade Tree Records) earlier this year, I've been in love with the album and the band's sound, some of the cleanest, danciest, and most sincerest post-punk I've heard in a while.
Then, while reading through Big Stereo, turns out Snowden released a remix EP (Fuel of the Celebration - The Remixes ) as a free download online, which is also for sale if you catch them on tour! Remixes come courtesy of Le Castle Vania, two other ATL artists, and Snowden's singer himself (under the moniker Stutter). If you want to get your remix on, download the EP or buy it from the band, but if you want to get to know Snowden first, go get the album! It was one of the first albums I heard this year that impressed me on the first go, and that doesn't happen that much. Whoever was on their Myspace page when I tried to add them was really nice too (for once!).
Just as a quick note, Snowden will be performing at Cinespace on March 6th in L.A., with a DJ set at Check Yo Ponytail afterwards, a few blocks down from Cinespace. You can most likely expect me to drive down that night to make it (why am I still at college...)! And Dandi Wind is also performing at Cinespace, who I'm just familiarizing with/reading up on right now, so I'll get back to you guys with her possibly...
I was torn with which remix to post, but since I didn't settle with Treasure Fingers' of "Anti-Anti," that should be the next remix you listen to (complete with vocoder action for you Chromeo fans)!
While I think the original to "Gravity's Rainbow" (so far only available to the U.S. on their Xan Valleys EP) is amazing, this remix is worth the listen. The Klaxons will hopefully make great strides here if their full-length turns out to be just as exciting. Along with the remix, I'm throwing in to my boy's second single, "The Grid," a song that would perfectly score an 80's science fiction b-movie; their music is so retro-future, it's dangerous. Besides to my boy being signed to XL Recordings, both bands consist of members who I think are younger than I am. Talk about wasting my adolescent years...
