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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Penguin Prison - A Funny Thing (Jeffrey Jerusalem + Monarchy Remixes)
(Photo: Bjorn Iooss)
Penguin Prison–Neon Gold newbie and much-lauded Marina & The Diamonds remixer–has a resume littered with half-lives like Alicia Keys’ choir-mate and Q-Tip’s near protégé but it’s his Holy Ghost! connection we dig most. Dude was integral to two of our HG! faves—singing back-up here and co-writing this. Below, two shiny edits of "A Funny Thing" pump disco keys, Lucite synths and analog-pop into the bloodstream.
Sounds like: Holy Ghost!, Hercules & Love Affair
Penguin Prison - A Funny Thing (Jeffrey Jerusalem Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Music Go Music - Warm In The Shadows (Villa Remix)
"Warm In The Shadows" already wielded a lot of bell-bottomed prance in its original form, so the Belgians in Villa didn't have to build a whole lot to make it more categorically dancey, just add some cycling synth pulse and a jacked-up bass figure and let Music Go Music surf their own gleaming, satin-draped, porcelaneous cloud. Should you still need MGM's debut LP, Expressions, you can pick it up from Secretly Canadian right here.
Sounds like: ABBA, Aeroplane, The Golden Filter
Music Go Music - Warm In The Shadows (Villa Remix)
Previously:
Music Go Music - Thousand Crazy Nights
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Ulysses - Toucan (Demo Mix)
(Photo: Dan Pak)
Because what's Thursday without indulging in a ten-minute krautrock cut with keyboards that sound like ooze dripping from our corneas and drums that had to have been played by someone with ten arms? (Answer: boring.) Ulysses is New York resident Elliot Taub, one half of the Neurotic Drum Band and seasoned NYC nightlife dude (that's him standing in front of the old club Fun, where he threw the Regressive Technologies parties in the early 2000s). He just put out a 12-inch of some more club-appropriate stuff on Wurst, go buy that here when you get to the other side of this unreleased epic.
Sounds like: Faze Action, Permanent Vacation, Liars at their most wasted
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Marina And The Diamonds - Mowgli's Road (Phenomenal Handclap Band Remix)
(Photo: Mark Broissely)
Marina has a voice and a face for the bright lights, no doubt, but The Phenomenal Handclap Band have a method, and they're not about to shake that for some Diamond girl with pretty eyes. So their remix of "Mowgli's Road" cuts her vocal to ribbons, proceeding in a tight four-four groove that brings to mind the bleeding neon of films set in late Seventies urban America (pre-HD). Watch out for those guys in the leather jackets and red headbands. I think they're 'street punks'. Q: Whatever happened to 'street punks'? A: They all started going to the disco.
Sounds Like: Chic, Of Montreal, Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell"
Marina And The Diamonds - Mowgli's Road (Phenomenal Handclap Band Remix)
Previously:
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear (Jacques Renault Remix)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear (Ilya Santana Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Golden Filter - Thunderbird (With Beauty Before Me, I Walk Mix)
The Golden Filter's name implies immaculateness, so no surprise that their tunes always have this great aural New Car Smell. They just put out a new single through Dummy called "Thunderbird," a traipsing disco cut that sounds like it could've been made from ivory. The original and dub mixes have been floating around and a new video arrived today, but this version, with towering oil drum hits and foggy rainforest vibes, is exclusive to us. Download it below while we go mine the closet for rainsticks and facepaint.
The Golden Filter - Thunderbird (With Beauty Before Me, I Walk Mix)
Previously:
Peter, Bjorn and John - Lay It Down (The Golden Filter Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Fan Death - Cannibal
We've had remixes and incredible videos, but "Cannibal" is actually the first original Fan Death tune we've heard since "Veronica's Veil" in 2008. They're still singing about macabre stuff over regal synth-strings, the same ABBA-gone-goth path we happily followed them down the last time. It will also open a new EP called A Coin For The Well, which is due in January through Erol Alkan's Phantasy Sound.
Previously:
Ladyhawke - My Delirium (Fan Death Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Crystal Fighters - I Love London (In Flagranti Vintage Mix)
Despite the implications of the above photo, Crystal Fighters are not the second coming of From First To Last, they are Spanish, Kitsune-signed electro kids with party mantras like parasites. They touch down in New York this week for some shows in advance of a new single called "I Love London," which In Flagranti have sculpted into this particularly huge, chugging mass of arena-disco. Info on those New York gigs after the break; the full "I Love London" single is out on November 30th.
Sounds like: Jacques Renault, Serge Santiago, Holy Ghost!
Crystal Fighters - I Love London (In Flagranti Vintage Mix)
Previously:
Magic Wands - Black Magic (Crystal Fighters Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Lissy Trullie - Self Taught Learner (TMDP Remix)
(Photo: Ben Ritter)
T-Dot disco impresarios TMDP (not an acronym, apparently) put together this glimmering Italo version of Lissy Trullie's "Self Taught Learner," affronting any notion that it's just Nordic and Flemish beardos killing this cosmic synth thing. Of course, if you prefer the unmanipulated version, it's available on Trullie's just re-released EP of the same name.
Sounds like: Aeroplane, Faze Action, diskJokke
Lissy Trullie - Self Taught Learner (TMDP Remix)
Previously:
Lissy Trullie - Self Taught Learner
Lissy Trullie - Forget About It
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Acid Washed - General Motors, Detroit, America (Black Strobe Remix)
Acid Washed play the anonymity card the right way, putting the names of their collaborators up front (Gavin Russom, Xaver Naudascher, Black Strobe, Turzi) and leaving out the whole "Ooooohhh, who could it be?" thing. So, we're left to assume it's just two random French dudes hanging out in the studio, drinking lots of wine and trying to find the fifth dimension inside an analog synth, and we like that. If you're not also somewhere between galaxies after Black Strobe's version of their first single "General Motors, Detroit, America" (out soon on Record Makers), then your ears are probably broken.
Acid Washed - General Motors, Detroit, America (Black Strobe Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Amanda Blank - Shame On Me (Yuksek Remix)
Completing the "Shame On Me" remix drip in typically luxe fashion is the Frenchman Yuksek, who eschews Viking and Jacknife Lee's drive-time vibes for velvet rope lounge disco, synths soft like bear rugs and handclaps aplenty. Grab all three versions of the song below, and pick up the album from whence it came–Amanda Blank's I Love You–right here.
Amanda Blank - Shame On Me (Yuksek Remix)
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Amanda Blank - Shame On Me (Viking Remix)
Amanda Blank - Shame On Me (Jacknife Lee Extended Remix)
Amanda Blank - Might Like You Better (Blaqstarr Remix)
Amanda Blank - Might Like You Better
Amanda Blank - Might Like You Better (Rusko Remix)
Amanda Blank - Make It Take It
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