Tuesday night this week marked my IFC TV debut. My song, “Pink and Purple,” found its way into an episode of Dinner With The Band. The episode’s special guest was Brooklyn MC-extraodinaire, Theophilus London. If you’ve never seen the show, it’s actually pretty cool… Each episode, NYC-rockstar-chef Sam Mason hosts an indie band and prepares a meal for them, and the band in turn performs a song or two. Previous guests this season have included Au Revoir Simone, Rufus Wainwright, Andrew WK, The Mountain Goats, and many more… good stuff!

In a fit of excitement I snapped a little photo of my name on screen:

And because I’m feeling generous today, here’s “Pink and Purple” to stream and/or download free! It’ll only allow 100 downloads, so get ‘em while they’re hot!

DOWNLOAD: “Pink and Purple” by Alan Wilkis

And lastly, here’s a video of Theophilus London performing “Cold Pillow” on the show:

Check out the Midnight Socialite mix, courtesy of URB Magazine – they put me on there twice! “Pink and Purple” and my Shwayze remix.

It’s guaranteed to get your party started: DOWNLOAD

1. B.o.B feat. Bei Maejor & Bruno Mars- Nothin’ On You (Villains Remix)
2. Marina & The Diamonds- I Am Not A Robot (Penguin Prison Remix)
3. Fever Ray- Triangle Walks (Tiga’s 1-2-3-4 Remix)
4. Róisín Murphy- Dear Miami (Original)
5. Gossip- Yr Mangled Heart (Original)
6. Groove Armada- Drop The Tough (The Twelves Remix)
7. LCD Sound System- Get Innocuous (Soulwax Remix)
8. Crookers- Hold Up Your Hand Ft. Roisin Murphy (Original)
9. Uffie- MCs Can Kiss (Original)
10. Justice- DVNO (Original)
11. Gorillaz- Stylo (Alex Metric Remix)
12. Little Jinder- Youth Blood (Silk Wolf Special Sauce Edit)
13. Kenna- Say Goodbye To Love (Remix ft. Lupe Fiasco)
14. Death From Above 1979- Black History Month (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix)
15. Shwayze- Get U Home (Alan Wilkis Remix)
16. Passion Pit- The Reeling (Yasutaka Nakata Capsule Remix)
17. Bloc Party- One More Chance (Alex Metric Remix)
18. Lykke Li – Little Bit (Villains Remix)
19. Datarock- The Pretender (Holy Ghost Remix Radio Edit)
20. Relation- Your Tiny Mind (Lifelike Remix)
21. Alan Wilkis- Pink and Purple (Original)
22. Mystery Jets- The Boy Who Ran Away (Riton Re-rub)
23. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- Over And Over Again (Original)
24. Metric- Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix)

And speaking of my Shwayze remix, here’s a little fan video I came across on Youtube – this dude’s got some serious pop-and-lock chops!

Much love,
Big A

New York’s own DJ Equal recently premiered his Summer ‘10 mix over at Frank 151, and he kicks it off with “N.I.C.E.” by yours truly! The mix features cuts by Passion Pit, Kid Cudi, Tiga, and many more… Stream and/or download here via Soundcloud:

SUMMER ‘10 by djequal

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!

(”Dance With You” @ the 1:53 mark)

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

THANKS GOOD MAG!

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

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
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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:

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

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