The day the sharing died
It's a tragic day for music fans, with the pink palace falling victim to the shadowy BPI....
The hypothesis that each download = a lost sale is clearly flawed.... and I for one see MP3s as a sampler for the real thing. If the BPI are so worried about people listening to music the artist hasn't received payment for, shouldn't they be tackling the underground menace of second hand shops?
So the big release this week is probably the Soulwax remix album. Which contains all of their slamming remixes in one handy package.
Funnily enough I find the impact is a little diluted when you hear them all in one go, since it's only when a Soulwax jam follows some faceless techno bollocks or derivitive indie whining that it stands out as being the futuristic head rave that it really is.
Most of the remixes are pretty familiar.. The Gossip (of course); Justice; Robbie Williams; Gorillaz; LCD Soundsystem (although to be honest I can't stand the new version with the extra Daft Punk samples)... but there are plenty here that I hadn't heard before. My favourite of these is probably this track by Arthur Argent. I've no idea who he is, but it seems this was released in 2002 on Whacked Records. Being from 2002 it sounds very Electroclash. I think it's about time that we can reminisce on that now. This sounds great.
"However hard they hurt you, don't ever let them know"
ARTHUR ARGENT - HOLD YOUR HEAD UP (SOULWHACKED REMIX)
Here's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it-sampler of the whole album...
SOULWAXBLINKANDYOU'LLMISSITALBUMSAMPLER
The second CD is a great mix (it's Soulwax innit!). So this gets voted a: BUY
Poni Hoax has thus far released two FANTASTIC singles on Tiger Sushi... 'Budapest' and 'Involutive Star'. Both however I feel were rather overshadowed by the even better Joakim remixes on the b-side.
Now Joakim has been put in the background on production duties, and this new single 'Antibodies' is the first output. It's described as 'Heroic Disco', and that seems an apt term. It's dramatic, uplifting, slightly dark... and yes, a little heroic. Like Depeche Mode crossed with Erasure. Again this is backed by two cracking remixes.. by To The Bone and Chateau Flight. But this time the Poni man wins out! And does a sexy dance just for you.
PONI HOAX - ANTIBODIES
What next? Er.. how about a competition. It's not run by me, so as far as I know it's been on every blog in the planet. But anyway if you enter you can win some really cool shit so it's worth a jiggle.
Closing date is Thursday, since the party is on Saturday. Halloween & shit innit.
Finally here's something from the terrifying mass of emails that I should have read / responded to / listened to / deleted. These are probably from the genre described as Blog House.... and will give you Ableton DJs something to slamming to play while you wink at sexy dancing girls.
G.L.O.V.E.S. is from Melbourne and specialises in defeating his enemies using nothing but a well timed 'swoosh' of the synth emulators on his prosthetic arm. He's ruthless.
GAMEBOY / GAMEGIRL - SWEATY (G.L.O.V.E.S. REMIX)
APACHE BEAT - TROPICS (G.L.O.V.E.S. REMIX)
As usual there's a shit load of stuff I should be writing about... however i'll just have to promise to try & update a bit sooner next time.
The hypothesis that each download = a lost sale is clearly flawed.... and I for one see MP3s as a sampler for the real thing. If the BPI are so worried about people listening to music the artist hasn't received payment for, shouldn't they be tackling the underground menace of second hand shops?
So the big release this week is probably the Soulwax remix album. Which contains all of their slamming remixes in one handy package.
Funnily enough I find the impact is a little diluted when you hear them all in one go, since it's only when a Soulwax jam follows some faceless techno bollocks or derivitive indie whining that it stands out as being the futuristic head rave that it really is.
Most of the remixes are pretty familiar.. The Gossip (of course); Justice; Robbie Williams; Gorillaz; LCD Soundsystem (although to be honest I can't stand the new version with the extra Daft Punk samples)... but there are plenty here that I hadn't heard before. My favourite of these is probably this track by Arthur Argent. I've no idea who he is, but it seems this was released in 2002 on Whacked Records. Being from 2002 it sounds very Electroclash. I think it's about time that we can reminisce on that now. This sounds great.
"However hard they hurt you, don't ever let them know"
ARTHUR ARGENT - HOLD YOUR HEAD UP (SOULWHACKED REMIX)
Here's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it-sampler of the whole album...
SOULWAXBLINKANDYOU'LLMISSITALBUMSAMPLER
The second CD is a great mix (it's Soulwax innit!). So this gets voted a: BUY
Poni Hoax has thus far released two FANTASTIC singles on Tiger Sushi... 'Budapest' and 'Involutive Star'. Both however I feel were rather overshadowed by the even better Joakim remixes on the b-side.
Now Joakim has been put in the background on production duties, and this new single 'Antibodies' is the first output. It's described as 'Heroic Disco', and that seems an apt term. It's dramatic, uplifting, slightly dark... and yes, a little heroic. Like Depeche Mode crossed with Erasure. Again this is backed by two cracking remixes.. by To The Bone and Chateau Flight. But this time the Poni man wins out! And does a sexy dance just for you.
PONI HOAX - ANTIBODIES
What next? Er.. how about a competition. It's not run by me, so as far as I know it's been on every blog in the planet. But anyway if you enter you can win some really cool shit so it's worth a jiggle.
Closing date is Thursday, since the party is on Saturday. Halloween & shit innit.
Finally here's something from the terrifying mass of emails that I should have read / responded to / listened to / deleted. These are probably from the genre described as Blog House.... and will give you Ableton DJs something to slamming to play while you wink at sexy dancing girls.
G.L.O.V.E.S. is from Melbourne and specialises in defeating his enemies using nothing but a well timed 'swoosh' of the synth emulators on his prosthetic arm. He's ruthless.
GAMEBOY / GAMEGIRL - SWEATY (G.L.O.V.E.S. REMIX)
APACHE BEAT - TROPICS (G.L.O.V.E.S. REMIX)
As usual there's a shit load of stuff I should be writing about... however i'll just have to promise to try & update a bit sooner next time.
posted by headphonesex @ 11:52 PM
