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DOWNLOAD: Chester French - She Loves Everybody (Steve Aoki Remix)
About two weeks ago we introduced you to the Neptunes' new pop proteges, Chester French. Their single "She Loves Everybody" has been making the rounds for a minute (including a slot on an episode of Entourage) and in addition to the Neptunes remix we already gifted, we now have a much more maximal reworking of the tune from our good friend Steve Aoki. Steve's stepped it up with some big room drum hits and a pretty destructive synth line (think the "Phantom Pt. II" hook with more throb) so this should lodge nicely amongst the usual dancefloor suspects. NYC'ers, you can catch Chester French for free tonight at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg alongside Charles Hamilton, The Knux, and Jus Ske as part of Puma's 60th Birthday celebrations. Tickets are available at Puma stores around the city. More info on that and other Puma Birthday events (including one with Steve) right here.
Sounds like: Justice, The Bloody Beetroots, Baby Diamonds
Chester French - She Loves Everybody (Steve Aoki Remix)
Chester French - She Loves Everybody (Neptunes Remix)
Chester French - She Loves Everybody
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: M Pour Montreal: Woodhands - Under Attack (Woodhands Live Remix)
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It was real weird to see Elvis Costello in white face popping out of a jack-in-the-box on the Colbert Christmas Special and even weirder when I saw a dead-ringer Elvis Costello leading a 2-piece dance outfit in Montreal playing a keytar. But no! It wasn't Costello, it was Toronto's Dan Werb, leading a throng of kids dancing and freaking out to the sweaty electro glory of Woodhands. Think Death From Above 1979, with the danger and the screaming replaced by all dance beats and super fun. The way the festival was set up you'd watch a band for about 5 or 6 songs, then hop to another room to watch another band, and back and forth all night long. Woodhands were operators of such an intense and prolonged dance orgy that they only were able to drop 3 songs, and "Under Attack" was one of em. Check it out as remixed by themselves, live.
Sounds Like: Anavan, Death From Above 1979, Chromeo
Woodhands - Under Attack (Woodhands Live Remix)
Woodhands - I Wasn't Made For Fighting
Woodhands - Dancer
Woodhands - 5 Steps For The ULTIMATE Dance Party!
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Designer Drugs Remix)
Treasure Fingers' irresistibly funky Fool's Gold debut "Cross The Dancefloor" has been a huge dance record ever since its release earlier this fall, with DJs rocking the vocoder-fueled original version in their sets alongside banging remixes from electro bigwigs Chromeo, Curses!, Laidback Luke, and Lifelike (which you can coincidentally grab right here). The latest producers to put their spin on "Dancefloor" are NYC's Designer Drugs, who stay faithful to the original track's melody but inject it with a massive bassline and a garage-y breakbeat all their own. Get ready for the rewinds!
Sounds like: Surkin, Weird Science, Jokers Of The Scene
Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Designer Drugs Remix)
Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Lifelike Remix)
The DeathSet - Negative Thinking (Treasure Fingers Remix)
Chromeo - 100% (Treasure Fingers' B-LIVE Pemberton Mix)
DOWNLOAD: Chromeo - 100% (Trackademicks' B-LIVE Pemberton Mix)
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It really was only a matter of time before Chromeo got the remix treatment from some of the producers and deejays signed to Fool's Gold, considering that Dave 1 and FG co-founder A-Trak are brothers and all. Coming correct for the final remix of "100%" is Bay Area producer Trackademicks, who keeps the jazz sax and but adds an uptempo bump underneath, a nice hip-hop flavored bookend to this collection of three. Grab all of them below!
Sounds like: Kid Sister, Jokers Of The Scene, Treasure Fingers
Download: Chromeo 100% (Trackademicks' B-LIVE Pemberton Mix)
Download: Chromeo - 100% (Nacho Lovers' B-LIVE Pemberton Mix)
Download: Chromeo - 100% (Treasure Fingers' B-LIVE Pemberton Mix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Red Wire Black Wire - Locked Out
We've had our eyes on these Wesleyan grads for a while but this time they bring us a poppier, hook-heavy track, "Locked Out." Who knew being getting fucked up and locked out of your casa could be so inspiring. But evidently it can be, with Red Wire Black Wire spit out cutting lyrics, heavy drums and breezy shoe-gaze guitar in the background. Meanwhile, we've had their decidedly darker "Compass" on repeat these days - it's fuzzed-out bass and twirling synths draw us in while references to "kill the old and pervert the youth" ensures the band never needs to worry about being classified as young and cute.
PS: They are hosting an 'erotic' record release party this Thursday @ NY's Lit Lounge, with bands Armchair and Deleted Scenes.
Sounds Like: The Bravery, Hot Chip, The Kaiser Chiefs, The Kooks
Exclusive New Download: Red Wire Black Wire - Locked Out
Download: Red Wire Black Wire - Compass
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Chester French - She Loves Everybody (Neptunes Remix) + Original
Chester French is not one man with a slick name but a band of two who met as freshmen at Harvard, soon thereafter began making music together and somehow wound up becoming the new pet project of a one Pharrell Williams. Yes, that guy. While Max Drummey and D.A. Wallach's rise to almost-stardom is just short of unbelievable, one listen to their catchy electro-soul and the pieces begin to fit: these guys are the first producers to emerge from a group of kids that didn't grow up listening to hip-hop but still digested Neptunes beats through pop radio. In other words, Chester French specialize in the mechanical, futuristic bump of their heroes, mentors, and label bosses, but interpret it almost completely through the prism of post-Boy Band pop music, writing songs for the MGMT set that make MGMT sound like Slayer. The duo just released their debut EP, She Loves Everybody, through Star Trak, and, along with the original, we've got an exclusive Neptunes remix of the track up for download. On their version, Chad & Pharrell have basically invented the genre of Blade Runner Bmore, taking little more than the original's a capella and adding some processed breaks and Tron-worthy synth drops behind. It's pretty fresh stuff, specially available for you as part of our one-year-anniversary celebration. We'll be dropping a lot more exclusive awesomeness in the near future, so stick around for that.
Sounds like: any Max Martin record, MGMT, Kotchy
Exclusive Download: Chester French - She Loves Everybody (Neptunes Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Poney Poney - Cross The Fader + Junior (Chateau Marmont Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Frankmusik - 3 Little Words (A1 Bassline + The Heaths remixes)
The origins of bedroom pop music probably stretch back much further than this, but for my money the man ultimately responsible for the success of Lily Allen, Jamie T and every other homespun ‘MySpace sensation’ is none other than Jyoti Mishra, who – under his White Town guise – scored a Number One in the UK singles charts back in 1997. This contemporary interview from Wired tells how “Your Woman”, Mishra’s one and only hit, was produced in his bedroom using a Tascam 668 multi-track tape recorder and an Atari ST. It’s debatable, to say the least, whether or not the song’s rise from lair to the daytime playlists of BBC Radio 1 signalled the start of the end for major labels, but in 2008 Vincent Frank’s pop music sounds like a lament, anyway, for the lost glamour of off-limits sound stars and the room the teenage imagination had to manoeuvre around them. A bedroom pop star in the making himself, one of the two remixes of Frankmusik below comes from Christian of Croydon pals Party Shank, the other from Vincent himself. You’d think pop would be full from eating itself by now, but what one man gets up to in the comfort of his own bedroom isn’t anything to do with us.
Sounds like: A-Ha, Simian Mobile Disco, T2
Download: Frankmusik - 3 Little Words (A1 Bassline Remix)
Download: Frankmusik - 3 Little Words (The Heaths Remix)
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Introducing: Poney Poney
Poney Poney started as a solo project. Antoine did a couple of shows with only a guitar and a borrowed iPod, which got promptly stolen. It was high time to draft friends Florent and Samuel on bass and drums.
"AM Music", "By The Numbers" and "Junior" were recorded pretty fast after that, with Xavier de Rosnay of Justice fame on production. The band started playing here and there, sharing the bill with 2 Many Djs, Justice, C.S.S., Sébastien Tellier, Midnight Juggernauts, These New Puritans, Ratatat, Das Pop, Simian Mobile Disco, Cut Copy, Poni Hoax, The Teenagers, The Presets, Kavinsky, PNAU, Scenario Rock and many other cool bands. Then, last Spring, Perspex Recordings put out Cross The Fader EP, with Xavier at the controls once again.
Now a duo, Poney Poney is putting together its sophomore EP. It's called WDYWSW? and was produced by Para One. I'll post some past material in the coming days, for the record.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Pase Rock - Get Money Kids + Video Contest
Pase Rock's party-rocking flow is relentless, a mile-a-minute gush of club-ready rhymes that'll blow the roof off of any room it invades. Yes, this is the dude who brought you "Lindsay Lohan's Revenge," and his new single "Get Money Kids" (off the "Get Money Kids / So Fucking Disco" single out Dec. 2) is even more hype, bolstered by some hot breaks from producer Eli Escobar and fleshed out with all matter of samples (horns, pianos, chopped vocals, etc.) and Pase's pumped-up verses. We're offering this up exclusively in conjunction with our bros at Dim Mak, who are also hosting a make-your-own video contest for the track. The winner will get some great swag and their video will be spread out across the internets, including this space right here. Flyer for the contest after the break.
Sounds like: Kid Cudi, Heaps Decent, Kid Sister
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