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)
My Phantogram remix made its way onto the “John in the Morning” show last week on world-famous KEXP radio! Pretty honored about it – John is a legend… (but he is NOT John Legend)
And in other news, I went to Brooklyn Bowl last night where I saw 4 bands in a row, each one with friends of mine in them. Must be a world record of some sort. First came Yr Youth, then Mr. Dream, then Murder Mystery, and then Project Jenny, Project Jan to close it out.
And I might add, it was PJPJ’s first show with their new live band. They played through a lot of the new material we’ve been working on together all year, and it was AWESOME! Oh, and David Best of Fujiya & Miyagi came out with them for a nice little encore.
All in all, quite a night. Anyhoo, holla at your boy
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!
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.
Internationally-renowned DJ and multi-talented man of mystery, Josh Madden, has a new internet-radio show, and he was kind enough to include my remix of The Very Best in the pilot episode! The playlist is pretty bangin, although I’d expect nothing less from the man ;)
* Chiddy Bang – Under The Sheets
* YACHT – Psychic City (Classixx Remix)
* The Virgins – Rich Girls (The Twelves Remix)
* PNAU – Baby (Breakbot Remix)
* Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (Emil and Friends Remix)
* Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer (Database Remix)
* Air & Ryhmefest – Alpha Beta Gaga (Mark Ronson Remix)
* Matt & Kim – It’s a fact (Mano Remix feat. Hollywood Holt)
* The Cure vs Lil Wayne – Close To Me (Remix)
* Pharcyde & Sublime – Summertime in the LBC (Remix)
* The Very Best feat. Ezra Koenig – Warm Heart of Africa (Alan Wilkis Remix)
* Chromeo – Call Me Up (Bag Raiders Remix)
* Imogen Heap – Say Goodnight and Go (Remix by Back Ted N-Ted)
* Edward Sharpe – Edward Sharpe (RAC Remix)
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:
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