Remix
Premiere: Japanese Television release surreal and enigmatic video for the mesmerising remix of ‘Moon Glider’ by International Teachers of Pop.
Earlier this month, psych rock band Japanese Television released an EP of remixes of their much lauded 2020 EP entitled ‘III‘. The band collaborated with UK producers James Lavelle’s UNKLE, Gabe Gurnsey, James Welsh, Space Age Freak Out, and International Teachers of Pop for the EP. According to the band: During lockdown we thought it …
Track: Jeshua – ‘IDK (mnlghtr remix)’: classy Scottish dreampop gets a blissful breaks rerub
IT WAS only a month back that we covered the third single drop from rather obscenely talented upcoming Glasgow tunesmith Jeshua, “IDK”; and it was another fine entry in his fledgling catalogue. I mean, he’s been releasing tunes for such a short length of time. And they’re all effortlessly cracking. When “IDK” first came out, …
Track: GoGo Penguin – ‘F Major Pixie (Squarepusher Remix)’: Tom Jenkinson wreaks his inimitable magic
THE EXCELLENT Mancunian trio GoGo Penguin, whose catalogue is full of thrills of jazz with a firm focus on creativity and the dancefloor, working in the same territories as Cinematic Orchestra and Red Snapper, are all set to release a really exciting remixes album, GGP/RMX, for Blue Note in May; and boy, what an excellent …
NEWS: GoGo Penguin announce Blue Note remix album with a stellar cast; hear the MachineDrum remix of ‘Atomised’
THE LEFTFIELD, inventive Mancunian piano trio GoGo Penguin, who work out in the truly creative zones where dancefloor and intelligence and a jazzy feel bump into each other, decided they could be lifelong friends, have announced a remix album for Blue Note, to be entitled GGP/RMX; and boy have they lined up a mighty cast …
See: The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer – ‘Forever Fool (Post-Apocalipstick)’: a late-night stoner chillout reimagining
A VANCOUVER duo who met by chance at a jobbing jingle recording session some decade and a half ago, the curiously named The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer soon discovered a mutual wish to explore the folk and the blues; a business they’ve been about over five albums in the time since. They’ve taken the …
Track: Niklas Paschburg – ‘Little Orc’ (Uele Lamore Remix): an impressionistic and cinematic retake
FOLLOWING on from the experimental pop of “Bathing In Blue”, in tandem with British vocalist Millie Turner last November, modern compositional pianist and composer Niklas Paschburg has once more offered a track up for reinterpretation and if required, reinvention; this time the creative baton being passed to Parisian composer and multi-instrumentalist Uele Lamore. She’s taken …
SEE: Niklas Paschburg feat. Ex Mykah – ‘Cyan’: a lush meshing of two worlds
NIKLAS PASCHBURG is a modern compositional pianist and composer who’s released two rather fine albums for 7K!, K7!’s mirror-image boutique ambient label, namely Oceanic and Svalbard. He’s now opening the doors to his piano work for outside interpretation, and in combination with Ex Mykah, the avant-pop project guise of Colombian-Cuban American artist Bryan Senti, he’s …
Track: Falcon Jane releases new Romshii remix of ‘Heaven’
Ontario based artist Falcon Jane, aka Sara May, released her album ‘Faith’ at last year via Pittsburgh based label Darling Recordings, which garnered a serious amount of praise. The album proved to be an insight into memory, grief and loss, with Sara losing a succession of immediate family members during 2019 when writing the album. …
SEE: Hot Chip’s spin on Django Django’s ‘Glowing In The Dark’ comes with trippy animation
WITH a brand spanking new album, Glowing in the Dark, announced for a February release, Django Django have unveiled a Hot Chip rerub of the title track, sprinkling some of that ever-uplifting Taylor ‘n’ Goddard sweetness over the pulse. Take a listen below. Django Django say: “We’ve been huge fans of Hot Chip from the beginning and …
TRACK: Metronomy – ‘The Light’ (Kero Kero Bonito remix): a modern synthpop marriage
IT MAKES absolute sense, when you think about it: take the art-synth-pop of Metronomy, take also further intelligent pop experimenta via the futurist J-pop and shoegaze-informed stylings of Kero Kero Bonito, and put ‘em together. Why had no one thunk of that before? Metronomy haved shared a new remix of “The Light”, the cool, detached, …