New GOOD Mag Vid: Love is the Drug

Hellllllllooooo Childrens!

New Video from my friends over at GOOD Magazine with yet another one of my jams in there! You can hear “Pink and Purple” around the 25-second mark. Thanks GOOD mag!

Add comment October 9th, 2009

GOOD Mag Vids: Cats Vs. Dogs + The Love Virus

GOOD Magazine is back with two more awesome vids featuring songs of mine! Check ‘em out:

(”Dance With You” @ the 1:53 mark)

(”N.I.C.E.” and “Time Machine” throughout)

THANKS GOOD MAG!

Add comment October 2nd, 2009

DJ Supermarkt Mashes Up “N.I.C.E.”

Friends!

I’m sitting here in sunny Los Angeles as I type, listening to some incredible Cuban music and loving life. It’s been an interesting past few days: had my first pink and purple Virgin America airlines experience, a quick run-in with the Church of Scientology, and got to chat with Esau from The Very Best on the phone for a little while (what a cool guy!) – he liked my remix!

Also just heard from my pal from across the pond, DJ Supermarkt of the internationally-known DJ-team-extraordinaire, Berlin Battery. He made a neat little mashup (or “shredit bootie” as he likes to say) of my song “N.I.C.E.” with some awesome 70s disco, complete with extra-funky slap bass solo… Take a listen and/or download here:

DOWNLOAD: “N.I.C.E. (DJ Supermarkt Shredit)” – Alan Wilkis

Enjoy it, share it, BUMP IT! And in other news, finishing up a new remix for a cool band out of Australia – I think you’re gonna like it. Will be posting in the next week or so.

Much love!

-A

Add comment September 27th, 2009

News, Reviews, Wolfgang Gartner + Sparks

Howdy kids!

NEWS NEWS NEWS! I’ve just about completed work on two new fancy and “official” remixes of some delightful bands, and will be starting on a few more shortly thereafter… If all goes as planned, I should be sharing one of them with y’all within the next week or two! Stay tuned…

And some more reviews came floating in for “Pink and Purple” – hard to believe it’s been almost 3 months since I released that puppy, and even harder to believe that people are STILL reviewing it! But I ain’t complaining!

Indie Soup Runner – [Interview] “Aural and blissful decadence… This artist and funk-meister’s ear for precision in the studio and Philip Bailey-esque falsetto make you wanna dance until your ass turns into a mush of muscle.”

Green Owl Records Blog – [Interview] “Producer / multi-instrumentalist Alan Wilkis reminds me a bit of his namesake’s ’supernatural extra brilliant intelligent’ line from Footnote to Howl. Wilkis is a magnanimous mothaf***a, a friend of a friends, someone that probably knows people you know in Brooklyn.”

Concerning This – [Interview] “Electro-ish, funky, feel good music… It’s very good. Check his stuff out, seriously.”

Bon Ton – “Fan-frigging-tastic… Like being transported back to my teen years, only better… Chock-full of 80s vibe, but it’s not derivative at all… It has upped synth and beat to the next level, creating something as modern as it is retrospective. It’s a slim six songs long, so you don’t get bored, and I dare you not to at least chair-dance.”

Appetite for Distraction – “Funky and danceable and just fantastic.”

Buffet Libre Continental Breakfast
Fuzzy Thoughts
Boston Band Crush
The Fast Life
Daft Who?
STW Podcast 164
STW Podcast 165
STW Podcast 166
BlogDrop/WVUM 90.5 FM
Popop
Elwoodicious
lazzydigger
Sweet Touch

And if you’re still reading at this point, here’s two things I’ve been loving this week (in case you missed ‘em on the old Twitter). The first is a delightful piece of glitched out electronic music from a gentleman named Wolfgang Gartner:

The second is a song and the accompanying 1979 music video for “The No. 1 Song in Heaven” by Sparks. If you’re not familiar with Sparks, they are SO weird and SO awesome… Very difficult to describe their music, but I’ll try: performance art, with a twisted sense of humor, yet deeply-rooted in pop music tradition and catchy as hell… Their career spans several decades, and they’re still making music nowadays, I believe, so they don’t really fit in one genre – they EVOLVE… This song is from a record they did with disco-super-producer, Giorgio Moroder – chock full of awesome disco and extreme falsetto super-cool-numba-one!!!! Enjoy:

Add comment September 4th, 2009

Final Installment of Pink and Purple: REMIXED

YO YO YO YO,

Today I post the final installment of the “Pink and Purple: REMIXED.” It’s another international set of submissions, with remixers hailing from California, Denmark, and France! Check out: Jason Sundstrom, Parker & Lewis, Prophet Panther, and Music for Modern Man.

Below there’s links to each individual remix, and if for whatever reason you missed any of the previous weeks’ tracks, you can grab all 11 by CLICKING HERE.

Thank you to all the talented folks who offered up their nassssstee remix skillz over the past few months – ideas were exchanged, fun was had, what more can I ask for…

DOWNLOAD: “Pink and Purple (Jason Sundtrom Remix)” – Alan Wilkis

DOWNLOAD: “Pink and Purple (Parker & Lewis Remix)” – Alan Wilkis

DOWNLOAD: “Pink and Purple (Prophet Panther Remix)” – Alan Wilkis

DOWNLOAD: “Pink and Purple (Music for Modern Man Remix)” – Alan Wilkis

Add comment August 31st, 2009

Say Hello to Sapritch & Panpan Master, Don Nola, and Jack Tennis

3 more “Pink and Purple” remixes today for your free-downloadable pleasure, courtesy of Sapritch and Panpan Master, Don Nola, and Jack Tennis. Check ‘em out!

DOWNLOAD: “Pink and Purple (Sapritch & Panpan Master Remix)” – Alan Wilkis

DOWNLOAD: “Pink and Purple (Don Nola Remix)” – Alan Wilkis

DOWNLOAD: “N.I.C.E. (Jack Tennis Italo Remix)” – Alan Wilkis

Add comment August 24th, 2009

GOOD Magazine: Photoshop Reality

The folks at GOOD Magazine just released a new video + put my song, “Gotta Get You Back,” all up in it!!! Check it out – it’s a really cool idea: what if you could Photoshop the world around you with your glasses?

Add comment August 21st, 2009

Tuck Digz & Club Cheval Remixes

Pleased to present two new “Pink and Purple” remixes for your free-downloading pleasure. The first one comes from my main man, Tucker Dawson, a.k.a. Tuck Digz, and you can peep his dubbed-out instrumentals at myspace.com/tuckerdawson. I’ve known Tuck for a few years, and he’s another one of those freakish multi-talents… A supremely-funky drummer and all-around musician, and as you can tell from his remix, quite the hip-hop producer… He constructed his track entirely out of samples from “Pink and Purple,” but slooooowwwwwed it down, or as he put it, “J-Dillatized” it… Just imagine me sippin on sizzurp and ghost-riding the whip:

DOWNLOAD: “Pink and Purple (Tuck Digz Remix)” – Alan Wilkis

The next remix is brought to you by Canblaster and Myd of Club Cheval, a collective of producers and remixers from France. Their remix has some serious 80s-cheese in it, and that says a lot coming from me, considering the amount I typically pack in… It more or less preserves the form of the song, but they recorded loads of new parts, re-harmonized the chord progression, and threw in some tasty 8-bit synths for good measure… and maybe I’m crazy but I hear traces of “Everything She Wants” by Wham in there. Check it out!

DOWNLOAD: “Pink and Purple (Club Cheval Remix)” – Alan Wilkis

Add comment August 17th, 2009

Do You Wanna Get Bloggy With Me?

Hey Childrens!

It’s been 2 months since I put out “Pink and Purple,” and the reviews continue to roll in – now don’t I feel special?! Take a gander:

Would Be Hipster – “It’s so cool it’s hot – and so hot … it’s awesome… Layered, smooth-as-silk production, catchy vocals, and funky attitude to spare… A fun, awesome listen that’ll put a smile on your face and get you tapping you feet… It’s infectious, and listening was a sheer delight; pop as it should be – fun and unashamed of it’s levity.”

Too Much Happiness – “The funky beats are pure sensory overload… Some might say it’s like the Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack on steroids with vocals arranged by Earth Wind and Fire and a couple samples of Jamiroquai thrown in to boot. This mother fucker is equal parts smooth and rad.”

Music Liberation – “This record’s funk rating is through the roof… The tunes are so very phat, so very danceable and so very retro… So good I think I’m addicted. If this doesn’t become a floor-filler within a year there is no justice in the world.”

We Like It Indie [Posted Jack Tennis Remix"]

Berlin Battery – “DiscoFunk is back… Really fun and makes you smile… And don’t forget to listen to this funky shit on his myspace or better: just buy the E.P!” [INDEED!!!]

Des Chibres et Des Lettres [Posted Club Cheval Remix]

Ederblog [AW guest post on music I like!]

Silence is a Rhythm Too [Posted Tuck Digz remix]

The Coolest Out – “[re: the remixes] They all sound amazing to me”

Attack Attack Attack – “Underrated NY genius… Think Chromeo in bed with Prince… [Re: the Remixes] The results are a diverse mixture of reworkings.”

Chic Moustache Club [Posted Father Abraham, Jack Tennis, and Music for Modern Man remixes]

Too Many Sebastians – “Alan Wilkis wants you to get down and dance, so much so that he made an EP that practically forces you do so… A happy little EP that is sure to put you a good mood.”

Stereoscope.FM – “Prince-esque sound… has something of (gasp!) an early-Michael Jackson thing going on.”

Buzz En Direkt [Posted Club Cheval Remix]

A Shout and a Whisper [DJ Set in Second Life]

Digivegas Podcast

Cheval

So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away

The Dissident Times – “I have been waiting for some new funk for ages. Prince has kept up the funk, and George Clinton as well. But we need the new FONK… Here it is. PINK AND PURPLE is this new release.”

Chic Moustache Club [posted Sapritch and Pan Pan Master remix]

Kid City [posted Jason Sundstrom remix]

Add comment August 17th, 2009

Indie Soup Runner Podcast

I’m on the latest Indie Soup Runner Podcast – it’s a monthly free podcast that features the latest in high-energy exercise-friendly indie music… This month’s episode features yours truly, alongside some other great music, and if I could ever force myself to exercise on any kind of regular basis, this would be the mix for me:

Alan Wilkis – “Gotta Get You Back”
YACHT – “Psychic City”
My Awesome Mixtape – “Washing Machine” (Washing My t-Shirt Peluche Remix)
Valery Gore – “Shoes of Glass”
Electric Owls – “Magic Show”
Flashguns – “I Don’t Not Love You”
Ash – “Return of White Rabbit”
Gossip – “Heavy Cross”
Skatan – “Shine”
Discovery – “So Insane”
Napoleon IIIrd – “Zebra”
The Longcut – “Repeated”
TiMaria – “Pretty Girls Are Pretty High”
Patrick Wolf – “Hard Times”
Marian Call – “Volvo”

Plus you can hear me dorkily introduce myself at the beginning… If that doesn’t make you wanna get up and run out the door, then I don’t know what will

;)

Visit their website: Indie Soup Runner – Shoefly Mix

Or download/subscribe via iTunes: Indie Soup Runner on iTunes

NOW GO GET SWEATY TO IT!!!!

Add comment August 12th, 2009