A Derogatory Playlist PT V

I have been listening to a lot of albums over the last month so my knowledge of remixes and dance music has slightly fallen behind. Luckily I was still able to gather a few very special tracks for the next instalment of A Derogatory Playlist.

A Derogatory Playlist PT V – Easter Egg Special

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1. The Ting Tings – Great DJ (Calvin Harris Remix)
2. Settlefish – Summerdrip (Amari Night Members Club Rmx)
3. MEN – Make it Reverse
4. Bo$$ in Drama – All the Love
5. The Rolling Stones – You Can’t Always Get What You Want [Soulwax Remix]
6. Cazals – Tcalls (Xtopher Fiction Mix)
7. Midnight Juggernauts – Shadows (David Rubato Remix)
8. Cut Copy – Lights & Music (Moulinex Remix)
9. Operator Please – Get What You Want – (G.L.O.V.E.S Remix)
10. The Teenagers – Starlett Johanssen (Rory Mix)
11. Klaas vs I Am Finn – Hard (David Sugar Remix)
12. Midfield General – Disco Sirens (D.I.M Remix – Von Party No Vox Edit)
13. Trash Fashion – Why Can’t We Be Friends? (Mason Storm’s 2 Hottie Mix)
14. Calling In Sick – Cali Games
15. Bag Raiders – Nill By Mouth (Knightlife Remix)


I highly recommend

The Ting Tings – Great DJ (Calvin Harris) - The original of this track is really gaining popularity and I only found that out after thoroughly enjoying this remix. Calvin Harris is clearly a genius and all I hope is that he continues to produce great disco dance hits/remixes and does not turn to the dark side and start producing for pop stars as a career. His album was one of my favorite from last year and his live show earlier this year was very impressive. I loved him for touring with a band when he could have just as easily settled for a one man show like Muscles. This remix is real disco pop and it is sure to make every one happy.

Cut Copy – Lights and Music (Moulinex Remix)
I have been a little obsessed with Cut Copy’s Lights and Music since I first noticed it in a live set last year at Daft Punk. I have just got my hands on their new album “In Ghost Colours” and for just one listen so far it is really sounding the goods. It almost reminds me of “The Dark Side of The Moon” in the way it is mixed and put together with pysadelic intermissions between tracks. The original will always stand above this remix because “Moulinex” decided to loop just the “And Music” for the closing part of the track cutting out the all important weapon of the original chorus lyrics. The remix becomes an absolute destroyer at around 1:30 when the jumpy bass synth provides a real electro feel. This has been my favorite remix for a few weeks now and is still going strong; I would love to hear this one out.

Calling In Sick – Cali Games – Where the hell did these guys come from?? Apparently Sydney and I thank my mate Skour for pointing them out to me. I first heard their track “Cali Games” on their myspace and I was amazed at the bumpy ride the track took me on. The first noise that grabbed me was what sounded like a clean synthesised slap bass riff which was soon accompanied by the complete opposite in a disgustingly dirty lower end. The track continues to lay down amazing sounds and riffs which sounds a little like Kissy Sell Out if he was to sign to Ed Banger records. . It sounds like a lead guitarist is hiding somewhere within this electro production, with incredible solo synthesised guitar riffs ripping perfectly through the bottom end of the track. Check out the boys at their myspace for some of their other productions/remixes. If “Ajax” has heard these guys I am sure he could be thinking of putting them on his new label as they would fit perfectly.

The Rolling Stones – You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Soulwax Remix) – Well this is just another remix for the Dewaele brothers to add to their already blinding resume of all things perfect in music. I believe “The Rolling Stones” had some say in how far they could go from the original and what the end product would be, but who would not trust Soulwax to produce perfection in every form. This remix was made for the new movie coming out soon called “21″ which has the greatest sound track I have ever seen including tracks from “MGMT, Get Shakes, LCD Soundsystem (New Track), Peter Bjorn and John, Junkie XL, UNKLE and Mark Ronson”. The remix is progressive keeping the original vocal track building with some synthy bass and what I believe to be original samples. This track will be perfect for the movie and I am looking forward to seeing how they use it.


Hope you enjoy the tracks, have a great Easter, eat lots of chocolate and remember the myth at Skull Hill near Jerusalem.

Jimps

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I Wouldn’t Trade One Stupid Decision For Another Five Years of Life

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LCD Soundsystem Live

If you have read this blog for a little while you might already know that I hold some bands very highly including Soulwax, Bloc Party and one other called LCD Soundsystem. They have been the best live acts I have ever seen in that order and because Triple J (Australian Radio Station) is so cool I am able to bring you a live set of theirs recorded in January this year in Melbourne Australia. Very few bands are able to give you that feeling of complete euphoria, but LCD Soundsystem did exactly that to me earlier this year on a sober night in the Boiler Room at The Big Day Out. The Set below is very similar to that night I saw them with the addition of a couple of tracks.

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Set list is as follows;

Us V Them
Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
North American Scum
All My Friends
Tribulations
Movement
No love lost
New York I love you

My personal highlight of the set is probably “All My Friends”, as it brings back this feeling of overwhelming emotion felt as I stared at James Murphy progressively belting out the lyrics – “If I could see all my friends tonight!” with bright white lights blazing behind him and his perfect session band building into the concluding chords making me feel as if I was in some sort of disco heaven.

Photo Courtesy of Chisolm Fry

I have to thank James Murphy and his LCD Soundsystem for directing my music tastes in the right direction with his supreme productions creating electro disco prog rock at its absolute best. Thank you so very much and I hope I can see you again soon.

The Wombats Live

I had so much fun at The Wombats last Friday night. It was so good to be up the front at an indie rock gig in the mosh. I will be doing it all again at Maximo Park on Thursday night and I can’t wait. I need a good indie rock fix every so often as the kick drum in dance music can some times cloud your judgment and hide the power of the distorted guitar. I will let the footage from The Wombats gig at The Zoo do the rest of the talking.

Lets Dance To Joy Division Live

Complete Live Set Cut Up

These New Teenagers

Photo courtesy of Chris Proud

Looking back in the past, The Future was awesome!! I got to see every one I wanted to – Datarock, Evil Nine, WhoMadeWho, The Black Ghosts, Eddie Halliwell and The Chemical Brothers. I know the Chemical Brothers was an awesome show allthough the mixture of the big beats and fucked up lightshow unfortunately spaced me out for their whole set which in turn wiped my memory. I used up nearly all 2GB of the Digital Cameras memory stick on Datarock so here is that footage, their stage dive at the end included.

This week I have decided to bring your attention to two albums which have been in my ears the last couple of weeks.

These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid (Thanks Rorey)

This is probably the most original sounding album I have heard for a long time, yet at the same time gives me such a Klaxons feeling. I would not say that “These New Puritans” sound like the Klaxons overall, just that their individual sounds and themes give that same spacey alternative Klaxons noise. The heavy distorted bass, random synths, deep tough kick drum, and intellectual vocals/harmonies bring together this young tight band perfectly.

You can find a couple of their tracks below.

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These New Puritans – Numerology (AKA Numbers)
These New Puritans – Swords Of Truth

“Numerology (AKA Numbers)” is a track which surprisingly is about numbers. This is quite a progressive track building from a slow rock intro/verse into an electro punk chorus – “every number has meaning”.

“Swords of Truth” is another brilliant track with another set of strange lyrics, punk slide guitar and what sounds like a synthesised horn. “60 SECONDSSSSSSSSS!”

All their tracks are strangely catchy although on first listen you might have no idea what the mixture of sounds are. This is probably because you have never heard them mixed like this before.

I will also leave you with a very unique remix not for the inpatient. It is a remix of “Navigate, Navigate” by The Loving Hand (A.K.A Tim Goldsworthy of DFA fame). You can always count on a few things with DFA productions when they are doing exactly what they want. 1. They will be progressive, 2. They will be long, and 3. They will be fucking awesome if you give them time. After a couple of listens to the remix I think all three of the above boxes are ticked.

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These New Puritans – Navigate, Navigate (The Loving Hand Remix)

The Teenagers – Reality Check

I thought for a moment that “The Teenagers” had swapped their guitars for laptops and were going to keep on pulling out amazing remixes instead of finishing their album. Finally this year they have decided to release their long over due debut LP “Reality Check”. Thank god for that because it is a brilliant album which includes their long standing hits “Homecoming”, “Starlett Johansson”, “Fuck Nicole” plus 9 other “indie could maybe call it dance” classics.

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The Teenagers – Homecoming
The Teenagers – Love No

Above you will find a couple of The Teenagers original tracks, “Homecoming” and “Love No”. The whole album has a clear theme of being a young loose boy and having a lot of fun. I am sure a lot of us guys can relate to the feelings expressed towards partying, girls, love and life in general by “The Teenagers”.

Homecoming is the story of an English boy coming to the States to stay with his Auntie who happens to have a very hot step daughter. It continues verse to verse about the feelings felt from the boy’s point of view and then the girls; I will let the first chorus do the rest of the talking.

“Male – I fucked my American cunt


Female – I love my English romance

Male – It was dirty, a dream came trueJust like I like it, she’s got nice tits


Female – It was perfect, a dream came trueJust like a song I’ve been wanting to “

“Love No” in another track along the same lines but this time the narration is coming from a real shitty girlfriend. This track is accompanied by a real nice indie pop rock feel that will get you singing along. I am not to sure how the teenagers would produce their tracks live but I am very keen to see this happen so hopefully they tour Australia for the Album.

As mentioned before The Teenagers have become very well known for their remix work and they pretty much have never gone wrong. Here are a few of their best.

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The Enemy – Had Enough (The Teenagers Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco – It’s The Beat (The Teenagers Remix)
Air – Mer Du Japon (The Teenagers Remix)

Along with their own remixes they have seemed to also score with the quality of remixing done by other people of their tracks – some nice ones below.

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The Teenagers – Homecoming (Gentlemen Drivers Rave Remix
The Teenagers – Fuck Nicole (Sluttt Remix)
The Teenagers – Starlett Johanssen (Rory Remix)


I am going to have a very quality indie rock 2 weeks with The Wombats this Friday at The Zoo and then Maximo Park next Thursday at The Tivoli. I will try to get the next installment of A Derogatory Playlist up next week and then it is V Festival to look forward to!! Stay tuned.


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