The band recently put out a new single, “Lies,” as well as a corresponding mixtape to complement the release. The tracklist includes some great stuff by Crookers, Kele, Chemical Brothers, and… MY TEMPER TRAP REMIX! I’m pretty psyched to be included on there.
Tracklisting:
Chemical Brothers – Swoon (Boys Noize remix)
Crookers ft. Soulwax & Mixhell – We Love Animals
Little Boots – Earthquake (Dekker & Johan Remix)
Stromae – Alors On Danse
Jamaica – I Think I Like U 2
Everything Everything – MY KZ, UR BF (Fenech-Soler Remix)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Garden
Jokers Of The Scene – Revolting Joks
Kele – Everything You Wanted
The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition (Alan Wilkis Remix)
DJ B-Roc of the world-famous production duo, The Knocks, is apparently an AW fan! In his latest mix, “The Transplant, Vol. II,” he created a delightful mashup of my Temper Trap remix with Marina and the Diamonds’ “I Am Not a Robot.” If The Knocks doesn’t ring a bell right off the bat for you, I’m sure you’ve heard some of their production work for Rihanna, Flo Rida, Chiddy Bang, Ellie Goulding… the list goes on.
Peep the tracklist for “The Transplant, Vol. II” below, and download the whole thing over at The Culture of Me:
01 Ante Up Crooks (M.O.P x Yelle x Crookers)
02 Champagne Kisses Could Work With Everything (Samuel x Gypsey & The Cat x Two Door Cinema Club x The Twelves x Atlas)
03 E.L.T.O.N (Elton John x Usher)
04 Glad I Got Nothin On You (D. Gookin x B.O.B)
05 Hello, Do You Like Bass? (Louis Logic x Dirty Money x Stardust x Classixx)
06 I Turnt The Night Up (Chelley x Travis Porter x Grum
07 Living In America Is Glamorous (DOM x Fergie)
08 Sweet Robot (Marina & The Diamonds x The Temper Trap x Alan Wilkis)
09 There’s Something About Us Under The Sheets (Ellie Goulding x Daft Punk)
10 When Your Love Is Swagless (Active Child x Soulja Boy)
11 I Heart The Plastic Empire (Gorillaz x Jay-Z x Samuel)
It was a White Hinterlandy weekend for yours truly. Had the great pleasure of seeing Sean and Casey play on Friday night at Glasslands with shred-goddess Marnie Stern. And on Saturday, had Casey over to the studio for a day of writing and recording for my new project! Lemme tell you, homegirl has some serious pipes.
On a related note, got a nice Stereogum mention for the WH remix I did a while back.
Before I break it all down below, a few pieces of exciting news. Just put the finishing touches on a new remix, and been approached to do another for a pretty substantial artist. And most importantly, been chipping away at my next solo album! It’s a slow process, unfortunately, but making progress every day.
I had the distinct pleasure of seeing Phantogram the other night at Bowery Ballroom, and got to chat with Josh and Sarah for a brief but enjoyable hot minute. Man, they brought it HARD and tore the house down. They had so much energy, great stage presence, both their voices were on point, and they had great backround visuals. Though my mobile-phone-photography is less than award-winning, here’s a shot from the sold out show.
And while I’m on the subject, we had a HUGE week for my remix. After debuting on Entertainment Weekly, we got written up in NME as among the 10 best free MP3 downloads of the week – they called it “a brilliant remix!”
Boom boom boooooom. Lemme hear you say way-o [way-oooooooo].
Extraordinarily pleased to announce my latest “official” remix, this time of the lovely Phantogram’s “Mouthful of Diamonds.” They released their debut album, “Eyelid Movies,” on Barsuk Records on 2/9/2010, and Barsuk (quite flatteringly) called my remix a “joyous new-wave inflected delight.” The remix also first premiered on Entertainment Weekly, which was AMAZING!
Phantogram is a duo, comprised of Sara Barthel and Josh Carter. They first caught my ear a few months ago when they were making the rounds on the blogosphere. Their production is really minimal and generally pretty dark – reminds me of an updated Massive Attack or Portishead, but a little more guitar and synth-driven. And I just LOVE the singer, Sara’s voice; she has this smoky, whispery beautiful thing going on… And on “Mouthful of Diamonds,” it really shines through and sits perfectly right in the middle of it, creating this dark and dreamy little world.
So, in my usual fashion, I turned the song completely on its head and produced it in the absolute opposite way – the only thing I kept from the original version is Sara’s vocals. I took it from minimal trip-hop to ultra-layered bubblegum pop, from dark to ultraviolet-bright. I loaded it up with synths and a dance beat, and recorded a whole bunch of guitars, percussion, squishes and squelches…
I highly encourage you to give the original a listen on the band’s myspace before checking out my version, as they’re SUPER different but somehow magically work great together… musical yin and yang!
You can listen to it and download below, and by all accounts please share it with any and everyone you know! Tweet the link, throw it on your facebook, send it to your grandma – everything’s fair game!
Got a truly wonderful response to my White Hinterland remix – I’m thrilled everyone came along for the ride!
A few things to report before I recap:
1) As many of you know, I’ve been co-producing the latest record for Project Jenny, Project Jan. We are so close to wrapping it up, I can taste it! Final mixes are complete, now in the middle of the mastering process. I seriously can’t wait!
2) Pleased to announce I’m working on MY next record – going to be a collaborative effort, working with a host of awesome special guests. Been sketching out ideas pretty regularly, very pumped to be working on my own stuff again. Lord knows where it’ll all end up, but it’s going to be awesome, I can tell you that…
3) Also been working a lot these days with my new friends, The Kickdrums. Doing some Postal-Service style email exchanges, trading ideas back and forth. Really fun stuff.
4) And lastly, my song “The Hustle” randomly wound up in yet ANOTHER extreme sports video. This time for some sort of Mountain Dew snowboarding event… Check it:
Moving right along, the White Hinterland remix picked up all sorts of steam over the past few weeks! Made it into Elbo.ws Hot Tracks after a nice thumbs up from WH’s record label, Dead Oceans.
Here’s the blog breakdown – thanks a bazillion to everyone that was kind enough to listen and write:
Moving right along, my White Hinterland remix is pickin up all kinds of steam out there, wanted to share some juicy tidbits.
First off, got a lovely feature in Prefix Magazine: “[AW] pushes it out of its surroundings into a piece of warm, lounge-ish electro-pop, in which the song still finds it’s footing.”
Nice little shout-out in The Independent, as well, in which they state that I am a “Brooklyn DJ.” Sure, why not?
And lastly, got some KCRW radio airplay again. Amen to those DJs over there, always keepin their ears open to all things indie. Gotta love ‘em!
In other news, I’m seeing Mr. Jamie Lidell at the Bowery tonight, and I am supremely excited for it. If anyone’s gonna be there, come say hi! That is all…
The reviews are in for my RJD2 remix, and the response was once again overwhelming! Time Out NY called me a “Brooklyn studio whiz,” The UK Independent noted that I’m “quickly becoming the go-to guy for remixes among the indie sector,” some more Sirius/XM satellite radio airplay, sat on Elbo.ws top ten list for well over a week, and for the 4th time this year hit #1 on the Hypemachine charts!
So… ttttthankkkkk yyyyyyouuuu a million times over to those of you out there that listened and/or had something kind to say!
Before I get down to business, I should tell y’all I’m hard at work on a few new remixes, two of which are quite different from my usual fare, in large part because there’s FEMALE SINGERS on both… Oooooooh
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