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!
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:
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.
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.”
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:
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…
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?
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:
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!
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.”
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!!!]
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.”
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.”
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
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