Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington deliver a glitchy, nocturnal remix.
Moody dance act Darkside have taken their remixing tools to ‘Digital Witness’, a single from the latest album by the increasingly electrifying pop innovator St Vincent.
Firming up the bass and adding a solid 4/4 bounce underneath, the duo pitch-shift Annie Clark’s voice into some spookily androgynous shapes, recalling the gender-ambiguous experiments of Planningtorock and The Knife.
Head to the website of Jaar’s Other People imprint to hear the remix – the player is in the top right corner.
Earlier in the year Darkside pitched camp on a New York rooftop for a Boiler Room show featuring songs from their debut album Psychic, which FACT’s Maya Kalev described as “brimming with ideas, instruments, sounds and influences that, against all logic, actually work.” via FACT
"It's not every day that this creative musician comes out with new material, but on the occasional day you can guarantee it's going to be good. I'm of course speaking of downtempo magician Bonobo, an increasingly talented artist that is constantly pushing his own ideas as well as the others he inspires. Yesterday, London Grammar released a Bonobo remix of "Hey Now" through Soundcloud to their audience's amazement. The track is part of London Grammar's most recent EP that features additional remixes of "Hey Now" from Bohdi, Arty, and Tensnake. Bonobo's remix takes a softer note than the rest as his work of London Grammar comes off melodic. The soft sounding trio, London Grammar, seems perfectly fitting to be taken up by a unique artist, as the remix shines new colours of spring.
The remix begins on a gentle tone that slowly lifts the melody. Before you know it, Bonobo layers in a light layer of footwork percussion that blends meticulously well with the voice of Hannah Reid. It is completely slowed down once more before a similarly soft impact on the beat that moves the listener effortlessly. Easily one of Simon Green's personal skills is his ability to make any song brilliantly structured in a veracity of timbres." via earmilk
"Kelis describes her sixth album as “a kind of unspoken lovefest”, involving two unlikely partners.
On the one hand, there is Kelis Rogers, who first came to prominence singing the hook of Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s 1999 hit "Got Your Money". This was the visually and sonically compelling 20 year-old whose debut album Kaleidoscope helped usher in the wave of sharp, thrillingly futuristic R&B that dominated the charts in the early Noughties, as exemplified by her global hit, "Milkshake".
On the other there is Dave Sitek, guitarist in acclaimed Brooklyn experimentalists TV On The Radio and producer to a certain kind of smart, indie band (the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Foals and Liars to name a few).
Food is a startling combination of Kelis’ most frank and vulnerable vocals to date, and Sitek's inimitable sonic imprint. Littered with transcendent, Spector-esque lift, warm bottom ends and vast depth, the music is the perfect backdrop for Kelis’ unique voice. The latter has only improved with time and experience, and the album candidly explores pain, happiness and everything in between.
Recorded at Sitek’s house in LA (and entirely produced by him), Kelis’ new album, Food, mints a sound that’s rootsy without ever being self-consciously retro, that pitches live horns and gospel organ against electronics, that for all its classic soul and funk influences, couldn’t have been made any time but now." - via Ninja Tune
1. Jerk Ribs (4:13)
2. Breakfast (4:20)
3. Forever Be (3:32)
4. Floyd (4:59)
5. Runner (4:17)
6. Hooch (3:30)
7. Cobbler (3:20)
8. Bless The Telephone (2:31)
9. Fish Fry (4:41)
10. Change (3:42)
11. Rumble (3:14)
12. Biscuits ‘n’ Gravy (4:24)
13. Dreamer (3:28)
"Pachanga Boys’ Rebolledo and Gomma Boss Munk doing a single together! And when two freaks like them meet for music – the result has to be a masterpiece of craziness! Surf Smurf – this single sounds like a David Lynch movie soundtrack for 2030.
A dirty 60ies Surf Rock song gone electronic. There are 2 versions of the song: Rebolledo did a 12 minute dub techno rockabilly orgy. Munk a more energetic surf hop house track that will people drive crazy.
Check this out.. it’s special. Also the bonus track Got It Baby… haha… analogue piano acid techno for soul boys and girls…" - via gomma
A1 | Surf Smurf (Munk Version)
A2 | You Got It (Munk's Bonus Track)
B1 | Surf Smurf (Rebolledo Version)
