Sometimes there is no way to make a song harder, better, faster or
stronger by remixing it. You could only fail by trying then. In such
situations there is just one thing a remixer/producer can do: Create
something different. That’s what Mel from Audioporno did when he
reworked “Go Go Go” by Teki Latex feat. The Genevan Heathen and gave
it a complete new taste – an oriental taste.

After Supermarkt amazed me with his Skibunny-Shred-mix, here is a remix I really like. Its from the Black Kids – and they did such a good job on swedish girl Lykke Li. More remixes coming from Fred Falke and Metronomy. Buy the single when it drops in May.
http://www.myspace.com/lykkeli

Malente Re-Edits. The first post is always the hardest. I guess that’s why it took me half a year to do what I do right now. Well the third reason (after no. 2: my lazyness) was that I did not just want to post some new tunes, but something special. So here is something special and from now on I’ll try to make it something special every week. I do a lot of Re-Edits for my DJ-sets so I came across the idea that this might be exactly that special giveaway I am searching for. From me to you.

Why Re-Edits? Most of the times I re-edit stuff because the arrangement of the original is too long, too short, has got a part in it that rocks/sucks or the original is played by everyone so I need an exclusive version. In some cases the track is brand new in others it’s a classic that I feel needs an update. In every case I love and respect the original track. Otherwise I wouldn’t spend time on this. In other words: The original is perfect already, but just not for me playing it out in the club. If you like the edits I did you should buy the vinyl of these releases. In the following posts I’ll write something about the artist or tune or some totally unrelated stuff, but as kind of an introduction to the whole “Malente Re-Edits”-thing I wouldn’t this time. That’s why I chose something you know everything about already (apart from that this Malente Re-Edit is from 2006)

Daft Punk – Technologic (Malente Re-Edit).mp3

www.myspace.com/malente
www.malente.dj

You have to be really strong for this one: for some time now i dig deeper and deeper into the 70’s world of softrock/M.O.R., the music that i connect to california radio stations, that you listened to in the early seventies while driving desert highways on the westcoast of the USA with some big car in a very slow tempo. For me this contains no irony at all, this is BIG MUSIC, with big compositions, big arrangements and over all bands with (extremly) BIG EGOS.
I guess I am not alone with this hidden passion, as recently lots of modern bands are influenced by softrock (some without admitting…): a.o. Gonzales, Midlake, Phoenix, Zoot Woman, Air, Josh Rouse, Republic of Loose, Sebastian Tellier, Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve, Black Ghosts, Tele or The Autumn Defense discovered this recognizable “warm” sound for themselves. Of course we all know that softrock went horribly wrong (“hell freezes over”) in the late seventies and had to be killed by PUNK (thank god). But as with every movement, there were lots of unusual, new ideas, unforgettable great songs and – here especially – great stories (i recommend the book: HOTEL CALIFORNIA by Barney Hoskyns about “singer/songwriter and cocaine cowboys in the laurel canyon”). For me some of the greatest music ever made came out of this….
So I “simply” compiled my favorite 19 tracks for this “starters”-set and included lots of radio-jingles, speech, commercials to make it sound like a real California-radio show from the 70’s. It includes some big names and also some really obscure guys, that were not successful back then (and now). Musically the songs range from classic singer/songwriters to megalomania-bands to the disco-influenced mid seventies singer/bands. This is not a folk-mix, all songs are groovy, some of them are played by the greatest studio-musicans ever (The Section). Besides, Browning Bryant’s backing band were the original, legendary funk-band The METERS. Rupert Holmes once said in an interview that this is the last period in music history, where a “not so attractive” person could become a successful star (remember it was way before MTV). Oh, and this mix features one of my all time favorite lyric-lines: “Midnight at the Oasis, sing your camel to bed”! This is a very special trip. Dare to take it… and OPEN UP!

(19 songs, 67 min., 92mb)

tracklist:
01. AM/FM Intro
02. CHICAGO – Saturday in the park
03. BROWNING BRYANT – Liverpool fool
04. DOOBIE BROTHERS – What a fool beleives
05. LIVINGSTONE TAYLOR – I’ll come running
06. FIFTH DIMENSION – Magic in my life
07. BOZ SCAGGS – Georgia
08. DANNY KORTCHMAR – for sentimental reasons
09. ARETHA FRANKLIN – Until you come back to me (that’s what i’m gonna do)
10. RUPERT HOLMES – Get outta yourself
11. ACE – How long has this been going on
12. AMBROSIA – Holdin’ on to yesterday
13. CARPENTERS – Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
14. MARIA MULDAUR – Midnight at the Oasis
15. BOB MCGILPIN – I’ll always come a runnin’
16. GEORGIE FAME – Peaceful
17. BABY GRAND – Bring me your broken heart
18. SEALS & CROFT – Peaceful
19. PHILAMORE LINCOLN – Temma Harbor
20. COLIN BLUNSTONE – I don’t beleive in Miracles
21. Bad Pizza Geno’s commercial Outro

S. Tellier
J. Tennis

This is the unofficial remix:

SEBASTIAN TELLIER – Kilometer (Jack Tennis Remix).mp3

Our friends from Round Table Knights just sent us their new video. And: it’s a Pop-Song! Good work boys!
myspace.com/roundtableknights

<a href=”http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=32967388″


Juhu, a Soulwax/2manyDJs DVD is coming! Release date: end of april.

They say about the DVD: “Where the Beastie Boys filmed one gig with 50 cameras, we filmed 120 shows with one camera in Europe, Japan, US, Latin America and Australia and the film includes footage of 2manydj’s, Soulwax Nite Versions, James Murphy, Nancy Whang, Erol Alkan, Tiga, Justice, Busy P, So-Me, Peaches, Kitsuné, Klaxons and many more with interviews and LOTS of music.”

Sounds good.

Wow, this is funky! Maybe you heard this one on other blogs before, but i simply have to post this track because its so good. The Twelves Remix reminds me a bit of the last works of Sirius Mo or Boys Noize: Electro-Funk for the club. Check out the indie-rocking Black Kids on myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/blackkidsrock

THE BLACK KIDS – I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfiend How To Dance With You (Twelves Remix).mp3

It seems that Indie-JAPE loves new versions of his songs. After his EP “Jape Is Grape” (7 Tracks, 3 are remixes by d.i.m, Tronik Youth and Bobmo), here is the brandnew, ruff-electro Phones Remix of “I Was A Man”, first released as home demo in 2007. You can listen to the original on his myspace.
http://www.myspace.com/richiejape

JAPE – I Was A Man (Phones Remix).mp3

I just saw that my remix for Gameboy/Gamegirl was already released. Its on Beatport and I-Tunes. The sad story about it – I sent the label 2 versions and they were supposed to master the second version, but they mastered the wrong version. Another sad thing is that my name is written wrong – so thats double dose. However – i am gonna get the right version mastered and gonna post that here. Before that you should try to grab this version here from Beatport.
We just booked Gameboy/Gamegirl together with African Boy on the 12th of July to Picknick. Yeeha!