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will release their second album, Ten New Messages, in England via on March 19. First single We Danced Together will precede it with a March 12 release. Though they are still deciding on a permanent U.

S. label since , has shown quite a bit of interest, going so far as to release the Rakes Remixes EP on February 20 in the U.S.

The Rakes will tour the UK and Europe for a couple of months beginning on March 19, the day of Messages release, at Nottingham s Rock City

Boredoms, !!!

members to remix Lindstrom on forthcoming EP It s a Norwegian affair: spaced-out disco maestro Hans-Peter has joined forces with spaced-out friends, labelmates, and countrymen , producing tracks set to appear on the quartet s upcoming sophomore LP.
Fans of one another s work-- and both signed to -- Lindstr m and 120 Days have rendezvoused in the studio with designs on fashioning three new cosmic jams. Look for those songs on a special 12 later this year, and on the follow-up to 120 Days 2006 self-titled debut sometime after that.

In other news, Lindstr m will soon release a 12 with vocalist and collaborator Isabelle Sandoo. He also has a remix EP on the way via Smalltown. Titled The Contemporary Fix, this one s a topsy-turvy affair: Eye from Boredoms, Justin Van Der Volgen from !

!!, and labelmates Bjorn Torske all give esteemed remixer Lindstr m a taste of his own medicine.

120 Days are out there right now, cris-crossing the world. They ll hit up North American, , with Ratatat in March. Lindstr m, meanwhile, works crowds in Japan with frequent partner Prins Thomas.

Click MORE for another lovely, exclusive portrait of Hans-Peter and the 120 Days boys in the studio. for a lengthy tour in support of last year s LP. concludes with an appearance at East Rutherford, New Jersey s Meadowlands Sports Complex in May for Bamboozle 2007 (which also includes a bunch of bands your little sister likes.

) will soon for that great big record store in the sky (where they have everything on vinyl), but not before treating discerning audiences to one last left-of-center indie gem-- and this one might as well be the Hope Diamond. On April 10, the KRS-affiliated imprint hits us with Remixed and Covered, a massive two-disc set packed with, you guessed it, remixes and covers of songs.
On disc one, Sunset Rubdown take on A Promise s Apistat Commander , avant-hoppers Why?

do The Air Force s devastating closer, Wig Master , and melancholic folkie Marissa Nadler makes Fabulous Muscles jam Clowne Towne her own. Devendra Banhart s cover of Support Our Troops OH! (originally released on a ) crops up again here as well.

Alas, Tu Mi Piaci covers EP stars Pussycat Dolls do not return Xiu Xiu the favor.
Disc two boasts remixes from the likes of loop-happy Creepshow partner Grouper, slice n dicer Kid606, like-minded shrieker This Song Is a Mess but So Am I, club MC/producer Gold Chains, boundary-pushers To Live and Shave in L.A.

, and Xiu Xiu themselves.
Remixed and Covered is one of approximately 92 Xiu Xiu-related releases due this year. Others include the reprise of XXL, Xiu Xiu s collaboration with Italy s Larsen, whose Spicchiologi?

drops May 29 via Important; the follow-up to award-winner The Air Force, which features a duet with Michael Gira; side projects with Deerhoof s John Dieterich and This Song Is a Mess; and a video collection and tour DVD.
That DVD should be available this spring, when, somehow, Xiu Xiu will find time for a month-long (be on the lookout for another as well). And!

Perhaps inspired by all that Neon Bible toll-free hoopla, Xiu Xiu have set up their own hotline , which you may dial up to hear effed-up, mostly indecipherable messages. For a good time, call (510) 587-3204. , son of the late Ali Farka Tour e , released his self-titled debut album via this week in Canada and this coming Tuesday, February 13, in the U.

S. The record features the last studio recordings of Tour e s father before his death last March.
Tour e is holding a remix contest for the song Ana , with the winning remix receiving a place on forthcoming Vieux Remixed compilation.

He is offering the bare bones of the track for download , where contestants can upload remixes from February 7 to March 7. Creativity will count for 70% of the judges scoring of the remixes, with production quality making up the other 30%.
Tour e is currently on a tour of North America that ends March 1 in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Lusine Recruits Tejada, Dear, Apparat for Remix Album
Also: Spectral kicks off Death series, North American residencies Seattle techno producer Jeff McIlwain, aka , will release an album of remixes on March 20 via . The CD/digital version of the collection is titled Podgelism and features remixes of Lusine by John Tejada, Matthew Dear, Apparat, Lawrence, Robag Wruhme, and Lusine himself, among others. Ghostly will also release an abbreviated 12 version titled Podgelism: Select Remixes, which features four of the most dancefloor-oriented remixes.

It is also scheduled for a March 20 release. Doug Seay s video for Still Frame will come with the CD.
Speaking of Ghostly s danceable side, counterpart label will release the first 12 in the Death Is Nothing to Fear series on February 20.

Death Is Nothing to Fear 1 features (aka Matthew Dear) on the A-side and Bodycode and newcomer P a r Grindvik on the B.
Dear is currently on a North American tour under his Audion alias. His remaining DJ dates continue through March, and Spectral is calling them the first installment of a bi-monthly North American residency , which sort of sounds like a regular old tour to us.

April and May s residency will feature Bodycode. will assume the role of touring machine for much of the first half of 2007. Their itinerary includes a couple of DJ sets by various band members, a few solo dates, and a massive tour of the UK and Europe with .

So much synth it ll hurt your ears!
The band still have release plans while on tour, though. First, 2005 s will finally have a full release in Europe, though that s about all the information they ve released on their website so far.

They will also release a series of remix 12 s. The first is for Weekend and features remixes from Virgintears and former Smashing Pumpkin James Iha (or is it current Smashing Pumpkin? We can never tell with Corgan and crew).

It will come out digitally and on vinyl in early February. The next remix 12 will be for Soft Power , and it should be available in March. Thanks to reader Jaime L.

Flores for the tip!
Going straight from to Graduation is missing a few steps in between (what about Skipping Class? Changing Meal Plans?

Drinking So Much You Wake Up the Next Day at the Airport Wearing a Badge That Says, Hello, My Name Is: Sloppy McBlzioiuarhgh ?), but has never been one to follow the beaten path. Unless that path has been beaten by .

According to Billboard.com, West has chosen Coldplay s Chris Martin to appear on Homecoming , the first single from Graduation, the higher education-obsessed producer and MC s third album.
Graduation is tentatively scheduled for a release later this year, and though Kanye did admittedly great things with Maroon 5 s Adam Levine on Late Registration s Heard Em Say , we re still a little skeptical about the Chris Martin collaboration.

(Jigga s Beach Chair wasn t all that.) The good news, however, is that West has re-teamed with producer and multi-instrumentalist Jon Brion, telling Billboard.com, We ll be working together again on the new project.

Jon wasn t just a producer-- he was such a good friend and a great person to bounce ideas off of in the studio. It was the whole experience.
Back in the world of semi-troubling collaborations, MTV.

com reports that Kanye has plans to remix Fall Out Boy s , the first single from their forthcoming Infinity on High LP. The album features production from Babyface and a verse from Jay-Z on one track, and pin-up Boy bassist Pete Wentz hopes to get Kanye s remix on the disc as well, even though it s scheduled for a fast-approaching February 6 release. Wentz also said Fall Out Boy have plans to put their own spin on one of Kanye s new songs.

We can only imagine who Kanye might collaborate with next. Might we suggest, um, the guy from Travis? Junior Boys Remixed by Hot Chip, Prep EPs, Tour As our holiday highs come down, have just the thing to send them through the roof again.

The sublime Canadian electronic duo, whose clocked in at #12 on our list, has just announced the release of a new EP packed with choice remixes-- including one from UK tourmates and fellow electro-pop sensation .
Details on the remix EP are scant at this point, but we do know it s slated for April release on , and that the U.S.

and UK versions will each sport slightly different surprises.
Much nearer on the horizon for our dear Boys: an iTunes live session EP, out today, featuring four JB deep cuts-- including a killer live version of Under the Sun from the Boys debut, Last Exit. If you caught a show on the duo s recent tour (in trio formation, with drummer David Foster), you know this one sounds like that sun is pretty much melting your vital organs with its intense rays, and shit damn is that awesome.

Cop that .
And rest assured, patrons of iTunes UK. The EP goes live next week over thataways.

If you ve yet to experience Junior Boys live, however, here s your chance. The pair kicks off 2007 on the good foot, launching a tour of Western Europe in February that has them hitting pretty much everywhere but Luxembourg. They should swing through the U.

S. again soon after that, details to be announced.
Finally, it s not too late to submit your entry for the Junior Boys -- but be wary, the March 1 deadline looms sooner than you think.

That boy Gillis is at it again. Following up a Peter Bjorn and John remix and a , returns to repackage another Pitchfork favorite for the dancefloor, and this time around he actually employs the mash-up skills that made him a hit in the first place. Whether or not it works is for you to decide.

Gillis slices and dices s Knife (from the LP), buttering it up with what sounds like the opening to Tears for Fears Shout , mashing in a liberal portion of Clipse s Wamp Wamp -- including Slim Thug s entire chorus and Pusha s verse-- and stabbing in a dash of this and that to color Ed Droste s cryptic queries.
Girl Talk is out there right now, in fact, making the kids move their bodies in indecent fashion across the U.S.

Parents: do you know where your hip, young children are right now?
Grizzly Bear, likewise, hit the road soon ( ), doing for our minds and senses of beauty what Gillis does for our hips and rumps.
And speaking of rump-shakers, recently revealed to NME.

com that they re going to have their way with Grizzly Bear s Knife as well, covering the song for their own licentious purposes. After talking to the feisty Brazilians and giving the thumbs up, the Grizz also accepted an invitation to return the favor and cover a CSS jam. The Internet: bringing people together who probably don t belong together, because it s funny.

The Knife Remixed by Dave Sitek, Booka Shade just before the holidays, -- who straight slaughtered our year-end lists, scoring honors and single on the way. It might be their third, fourth, or eleventh, depending on released Booka Shade, Rex the Dog, and Planningtorock remixes of the song along with reworkings from the Emperor Machine and TV on the Radio s Dave Sitek. UPDATE: The EP will be out in the U.

S. on February 20. Last but certainly not least, Brille has designs on a deluxe re-release of Silent Shout in the near future.

Details forthcoming.
When we think of (aka Sufjan compatriot Shara Worden), ponies, orchestras, and churches spring wamp wamp whoa! Which makes our thinking just plain wrong, because My Brighest Diamond has announced a remix disc, Tear It Down, set for release on March 6 via Ellen Allien Remixes Beck and Yorke, Owns 2007 is all about 2007.

In fact, she s so excited about it, she s practically planned out the entire year already, for both herself and the label she lovingly oversees, Berlin-based techno powerhouse . Remixes, compilations, mixes, new albums, new signings, tours-- it s all in the works, so pull up one of those futuristic-looking pod chairs, pour yourself a glass of Tang, sit back, and check it out.
First up, Allien pays her respects to 2006, which wasn t too shabby at all for the gal.

In collaboration with co-chief , she released the Pitchfork this past spring-- and she and Apparat judged a Way Out video contest held by MTV-owned Flux.tv (now ). Check out the winning clip, painstakingly put together by Marco Testoni, below.

Like a low-budget Take on Me , it s an absolute marvel of animation on the cheap, although it might have fit slightly better with a gritty rock song than Allien Apparat s nocturnal electronic bubblings. After a series of DJ gigs in Europe this month and a New Year s bash in Berlin with Sascha Funke, Allien hops on the 2007 trajectory and doesn t look back. In March, she ll hit us with both the third Bpitch Camping compilation (including a new Allien track) and the CD/DVD Time Out Presents: The Other Side Berlin mix (which arrives March 30, courtesy of Fujiya Miyagi s U.

S. home ; tracklist below). Allien s Berlin mix culls together everything from a German version of David Bowie s Heroes to Swiss robo-seductress Miss Kitten to the minimal superstar Ricardo Villalobos.

And heads up: Madlib s The Other Side L.A. mix drops then as well.

In the fall, Allien dons her mixing hat once again for Boogybytes Vol. 3 on Bpitch. Like previous Boogybytes releases mixed by Funke and Kiki, this one features another cover photograph that should frighten all the birds and small children away.

As if that weren t enough, she has a mix on the way in May.
An unstoppable mistress of the mix, Allien will also give the remix treatment to tracks by Thom Yorke ( The Eraser ; ), Beck ( The Sun ), and, along with Apparat, Kate Wax-- those should see release in the near future.
Happy holidays from !

His gift to us? Not something bought at an evil capitalist chain store, oh no. It s remixes of tracks from his solo debut, , available for free download from .

(There are no plans to release the remixes in any other format at the moment.) For anyone who has heard The Eraser, there are some remixes coming.
I got excited.

I ve been listening through. I mean. There s some freaky shit.

They may start appearing soon. Gradually. Briefly.

Right now, only two have been posted, but it looks like there are more to come (four more, if the squiggly drawings of buildings you have to click on to access the remixes are to be believed). We hope that finally sees the light of day this way. Yorke s labelmates take on Analyse , outfitting the skeletal track with stutters, bleeps and video game gunshots.

Yes, it s another one of the mysterious duo s trademark dystopian creations. On Dead Air Space, Yorke calls it a deranged twist of Analyse by Various Productions , adding, i got into them after hearing Hater off their Lp . English DJ/producer crafts an unsettling club banger out of The Clock , building on the original s broken garage undercurrent and amping up the throb.

He has turned it into something really hard, Yorke writes. And disco.
Well what i call disco anyhow.

It made me very proud.
I hope it gets played in a club somewhere.
Not that i get out much nowadays.

Blood Brother, Dälek, Braxton Remix Minus the Bear Wayyy back in July, when your skin was being scorched by the sun rather than frostbitten by the wind, of and a cadre of remixers set to re-envision that Bear s 2005 set Menos El Oso. With all those Bear bands bumming around of late, after all, a remix disc might be just the thing to lift Minus above Volcano, Grizzly, Huggy, and Panda on the hallowed last.fm charts.

Well we re now quite pleased to share the complete tracklist and title for Interpretaciones Del Oso, due February 20 via longtime Bear den . The disc once again features remix work from (aka Morgan Henderson of the Blood Brothers), (aka D a lek), , (also of Battles), (aka Jay Clark of Pretty Girls Make Graves), , , (aka Yuuki Matthews of Squeeze labelmates Crystal Skulls), , (aka Monostereo), and (the Seattle dude, not the UK grimester).
Minus the Bear wrap up a UK tour tonight and tomorrow, and their for Pachuca Sunrise is in the running for video of the year on MTV 2 s Subterranean .

Vote for it . Like many before them, have formed their own record label, the tuff-named (perhaps after Akira Kurosawa s Macbeth-based ) Throne of Blood Records. Its initial purpose is to house the slew of vinyl singles and remixes culled from their latest album, , as well as the vinyl version of Pieces.

direction will be managed by the Rapture, and DJ will supervise its day-to-day affairs. forces with in the U.S.

, and and Schnauzer Records in Europe. Its first release, the single for Get Myself Into release, the Rapture plan to recruit some of the most influential In other news, the band made its way to the market two times yesterday-- once on their second UK single, Alright-Yeah..

.Uh Huh on the album), which boasts new B-sides Parisian duo s remix album, A Remix Selection Of the former song, the always wanted to have some fucking parentheses in a song title. It s so Janet modestly-sized tour of the UK.

Following this jaunt, which is set to begin in February, the Rapture will make two appearances at Australia s . Finally, the guys are up for Maniac mash-up mobster and honoree , whose mother calls him Gregg Gillis, reinvents standout Let s Call It Off from fellow Best New Music cats . And by reinvents, I mean trades the bumbling bass for some synthetic steel drum and cowbell sounds and a little low-end background melody.

It s pleasant enough, but frankly I expected something slightly less rudimentary and slightly more mind-melting from this guy, given his chops.
Then again, it s probably a total banger when cranked to 11 in the club with a half-naked Gillis spazz-dancing and crowd-surfing all over you and your stage-crashing friends, everybody perspiring like it s a rain forest up in there. Rapture, Bloc Party on Black Strobe Remix Comp The label released A Remix Selection s first track-- Shining Bright Star (Phones industrial version) -- today as a 12 single, and it is also available online at the site of the duo s series of podcasts, .

The other two current podcast installments are mixes created by both members of Black Strobe, beatmaker Ivan Smagghe and vocalist Arnaud Rebotini.
Shining Bright Star is a preview of the upcoming full-length, which is being recorded with Rapture/Bloc Party/Futureheads producer (aka Phones -- hence the remix name) and My Bloody Valentine/Smashing Pumpkins/Nine Inch Nails engineer/producer Alan Moulder. Seemingly out of character, a press release claims that Black Strobe plan on covering a Muddy Waters song on the currently untitled album.

Black Strobe also have a series of live dates scheduled, most of which are DJ sets of some sort. The shows in Stuttgart, Germany and Rome, however, will feature a live trio, which consists of Rebotini, Benjamin Beaulieu, and a guy named Siskid. Smagghe chooses not to perform at these shows because being on stage brings general unease.

.. There is a show element that I love in others but cannot imagine for myself.

Siskid and Beaulieu are both involved in the recording of the full-length as well. When he s not busy producing ace UK acts like Bloc Party and Max i mo Park, or, um, , goes on a remixing rampage under the alias . Here he grooves up and spreads out All Sparks , from the joyless division s debut LP, The Back Room.

Dialed in? Not so much, lucky for you.
The Phones number was set to appear on an Editors remix EP, but didn t make the final cut.

So happy belated Thanksgiving, have an exclusive mp3 on us.
The aforementioned EP hit iTunes a couple weeks back, and features Editors re-edits from Ghislain Poirier, Ed Banger s Sebastian, NYC DJ Prince Language, and Certified Bananas mash-up man P Nice. MP3: Loney, Dear: "The City, the Airport (CSS Remix)" I.

I was standing. You were there. Two worlds collided.

And-- er, you can decide whether these two should be torn apart or not. labelmates, hemispheres between them-- both geographically and genre-wise-- joined together at last by one pretty solid remix.
Brazilian dance crazies crash earnest swede-popper s party, reworking The City, the Airport -- from the latter s 2006 release Sologne-- into something you might dance to given the proper libations.

Download the results below.
The remix comes courtesy of , the fine label that treated the UK to Sologne and a 7 of the original version of the song in question. CSS s take is set to appear as a bonus track on the iTunes version of Sologne, as well as on a radio single and a forthcoming SIC label sampler.

, Loney s Sub Pop debut, Loney, Noir, hits the streets February 6. TV Personalities Cover Killers, Remixed by Black Dice Some things just make you feel good all over. Like when a group of bands get together to play music and raise money for an idol who s fallen on hard times.

Flashback to July 30, 2004, when New York City s and several area acts they d recruited-- including My Favorite and Burnside Project-- are doing just that at NYC s Sin- e , to of , who found himself penniless after being released the month before following a term on a prison boat.
Together, the acts raised over $1,000, which Treacy used to record a bunch of songs set to appear on the forthcoming Are We Nearly There Yet?, a collection of semi-new TVPs material slated for U.

S. release on February 20, 2007 via . Treacy recorded these 13 tracks-- including covers of Bruce Springsteen s If I Should Fall Behind and the Killers Mr.

Brightside -- with producer Simon Trought at London s Soup Studios. He subsequently recorded My Dark Places at Soup, which saw release earlier this year via .
I m as proud and disappointed of this CD as anything I ve ever done, wrote the ever-amusing Treacy in a press release.

Seems the man hasn t rested since resurfacing, and according to his ever-amusing , he s already writing songs for the next TVPs album.
February 20 will also see the release of a four-song Television Personalities EP collecting remixes of tunes from All My Dark Places. Domino will deliver the affair, and remixers include , of Ratatat, I Will (aka Ian Williams of ), and Brooklyn duo .

That same disc arrives January 29 in the UK.
Catch Treacy live this winter as Television Personalities play two London dates. album, Forts, in the spring, but the Arm In Arm 12 this eight-and-a-half-minute remix, which finds the Chip in full-on industrial mode, echoey Tainted Love -style synths and all.

Kieran Hebden remixing Thom Yorke, Arab Strap, Explosions in the Sky, Aluminium, working with Fridge, Steve Reid, Sunburned Hand of the Man gets around. The man also known as had quite a year in 2006, releasing the CD/DVD package (a companion to 2005 s ), a , a in the DJ-Kicks series, of collaboration with jazz drummer , and , as well as touring with and without Reid and remixing the likes of Jamie Lidell, ex-Cure keyboardist Roger O Donnell, and His Name Is Alive. As the year comes to a close, Hebden hasn t slowed down one bit.

Pitchfork caught up with the workaholic recently, and he filled us in on what he s been up to, when he s not slacking off and doing something counter-productive like eating or sleeping. Not surprisingly, Hebden has been steadily adding to his remix discography. He recently got his hands on the version of the White Stripes Forever for Her Is Over for Me , available as an from Rough Trade s brand new MP3 store, .

, Aluminium is avant garde orchestral versions of White Stripes songs, as envisioned by founder Richard Russell and composer/arranger Joby Talbot.
I m a huge fan of the White Stripes, Hebden said. Particularly the last album I really, really liked.

It was a nice thing to remix because the instrumentation was so diverse on it. Hebden just finished his take on s Atoms for Peace , though he has no idea what the release plan for that one is. His version of s first single, The First Big Weekend , is the B-side to the retiring Scottish band s final release, a 7 also featuring There Is No Ending .

It s out now on . Finally, , the Four Tet remix of s Catastrophe and the Cure , from their forthcoming album All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone, will be included on the bonus disc that comes with the limited edition deluxe version of that album. It s due out February 20 on .

They are really good friends of mine, Hebden said of EITS. It s one of those things that we always talked about but never got around to. It finally happened.

released by in May. The concept multimedia troupe will self-release Dazzle s Island adventure, coined D.I.

by D.D., on November 20.

D.D. developed roughly 30 new beats for L-D, the best of which made their way onto the CD.

other news, select images from the D.I. Collection-- which are pretty much chopped n screwed portraits of rain-worn statues and stonework-- are still on display at New York City s gallery, as part of the exhibit, which runs through November 22.

So do Spiritualized, Polyphonic Spree, Peaches, Le Tigre Taking aim at stereotypes while simultaneously playing straight to them, has titled her forthcoming album Yes, I m a Witch. (It s also the name of one of her songs.) And the legendary artist/musician has conjured quite a list of guests to appear on the record.

In fact, the record consists of almost nothing but guests.
The idea behind Witch goes like this: Ono chose the artists with whom she wanted to work, gave them access to her back catalog, asked them to chose a song to rework, and then provided [them] with the vocals and whatever other instrumental elements attracted them from that cut. Almost all the artists chose just the vocals, according to a press release.

The result: a remixes/duets/covers record consisting of entirely new musical tracks.
The Flaming Lips, Cat Power, Antony, Le Tigre, Spiritualized s Jason Pierce, Peaches, and the Polyphonic Spree are among those who contributed to Yes, I m a Witch, which will release in February. The label will follow it in March with a compilation of dance remixes of Ono songs.

Shara Worden, aka artist , has had quite a year already, releasing her debut album and touring with her buddy Sufjan. But it s not over yet.
On December 5, Worden will release an iTunes-only EP featuring four versions of the Workhorse track Disappear : the original, an alternate recording, and remixes by Stakka and James McAlister.

Also included will be the previously unreleased B-side The Lace Handkerchief .
Worden is on a headlining tour of North America now, and she will join forces with DeVotchKa in December to complete her dates.

So do Simian Mobile Disco, Van She Julian Hamilton and Kimberley Moyes have undergone the remix treatment.

On November 7, the pair more commonly known as will package a free bonus disc, titled Resets, with new editions of its 2006 LP, , which originally hit shops back in May. Remixers featured on the limited edition, U.S.

-only release include , , , , , and month. That slab of vinyl is only available in the UK. As previously reported, the duo is currently supporting on their North American tour.

After wrapping that up later this month, Moyes will spin four DJ sets in Japan before reuniting with Hamilton for a series of Australian festival appearances.
Sunn 0))), Fehlmann, Jelinek on Buddha Machine Comp
Sun City Girls, Blixa Bargeld also put a quarter in the Buddha Jukebox Since its release, s portable plastic loop player has been enshrined by the likes of Brian Eno, Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls), Thomas Fehlmann (the Orb), plus thousands of drone-friendly fans worldwide. Indeed, this very publication gave the device a respectable .

So it s no surprise that the simple soundbox has launched an album, Jukebox Buddha, containing 15 tracks based on the Machine s nine loops.
Due out on November 7 on , this ambient offering features contributions from Sun City Girls, Sunn 0))), Fehlmann, Jan Jelinek with Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtmann, Einst u rzende Neubauten s Blixa Bargeld, Monolake s Robert Henke, Alog, Mapstation, and many other Buddha buddies.
According to a press release, the artists stretch, compress, reconfigure, rub and dust, and generally fuck around with the nine floating loops clipped out from FM3 s confrontational world of quiet.

Sounds like a fifteenfold path to awesome. circuit for quite some time now, and seemingly has no intentions of slowing down. In fact, he s unveiled a slew of new non-school night dates, including an Australian tour (read: three gigs) and a New Year s Eve show in Pitchfork s hometown, Chicago, Illinois.

And we thought the time was crazy...

Speaking of crazy, Gillis was recently tapped to remix a Good Charlotte song. Whoa! Pitchfork is now sorta three degrees away from Hilary Duff.

to lending , Grizzly Bear, Teddybears, and Peter Bjorn and John a hand, and is now moving on to Bonde Do Role as well as Benji and Joel. on Pittsburgh s radio on November 20.
-- the High Priestess of Soul -- is well known for her slow, simmering ballads, but she also recorded songs steeped in funk, gospel, and African tribal rhythms that pulsated across dancefloors in the post-disco era.

Get ready, because RCA/ is about to release a club-friendly set of Simone s definitive works from her RCA period (1967-74)-- as reinterpreted by various DJs and producers.
Due out on October 31, is the first release in a series that will showcase other Legacy artists in the coming months. The Simone disc features remixes by Francois K.

(U2, Depeche Mode, Mick Jagger), Tony Humphries (Janet Jackson, Chaka Khan, Donna Summer, Queen Latifah), Coldcut (Eric B. Rakim, the Orb), Mocean Worker, Groovefinder (whose remix of Ain t Got No / I Got Life is a UK Top 30 hit), DJ Logic, Nickodemus, and others.
Click the links below for two extra-special mp3 downloads of Humphries mixes of Turn Me On not found on the album.

MP3: 120 Days Remixed by Lansing-Dreiden, the Field Norway s latest export, tundra-rockers , have been winning fans on both sides of the Atlantic. It s somehow appropriate, then, that acts representing each side have elected to remix the lead-off track on 120 Days self-titled, debut, Come Out (Come Down, Fade Out, Be Gone) .
Both tracks come courtesy of Vice s website.

First up, New York s enigmatic concept rock troupe bend and stretch 120 Days original, take it for a few spins around the moon, and drop it off at an unspecified location in the early 1980s. Then Swedish loop wizard , aka Axel Willner, dumps the vocals and just totally slices the thing up into a pulsating, fade-in-fade-out, rhythmic club-floor sprawler.
Both efforts get the thumbs up from us!

s blues have covered the Earth for most of our young millennium; now, those same blues are being shaken up a bit. The Michigan tribe has put the Earth (4AD). Best part, it s tracks, including contributions from and , 2001.

The record does, however, feature a new number from , and R B and demo versions of Write My Name . Starting today, for a limited time, fans can download the 11-track release (with printable PDF art!) on His Name Is Alive s other news, the latest HNIA album, Detrola 16, courtesy of / .

Name Is Alive have four October gigs on the touring agenda, one of to come early, stand in the front, wear a costume, and bring a tambourine, according to a press release. 100 fun-sized candy bars says the band goes as His Name Is Dead.
You that s new album, The Information, which came out today on Interscope, comes packaged with a DVD featuring videos for all of the songs.

Well now, as we ve come to expect from Mr. Hansen, there s more. If you buy The Information from iTunes, not only does it come with all of those videos, but you also receive an exclusive remix of Dark Star by David Sitek of .

Yeah, the one he talked about in , when he said, It s turning into a free jazz song...

.I have saxophone players and flute players in here.
It s hard to tell where the original song ends and the remix begins from the stream of Sitek s remix below, but there are plenty of laser noises and sleigh bells and, yes, saxophones and flutes.

I ll bet Beck s pleased. Awesome bullshit is a pretty good way of describing s aesthetic. It s also the way Blow half describes his band s forthcoming remix album, Paper Tivo.

But everyone knows that before the remixes you have to have the original release (M.I.A.

didn t get that memo), and thus, new record Paper Television must precede Paper Tivo.
The only album of the two with a release date at the moment, Paper Television comes out October 26 on , and the duo (also consisting of founding member ) are in the throes of a fall U.S.

tour with (and, later, ) to support it. They plan to take on Japan and Australia in January.
As for Paper Tivo, the Blow hope to release the remix project sometime in December.

The CD/DVD will include remixes of songs from Paper Television, and Bechtolt tells us remixers might include some famous people like Mu, Max Tundra, Hot Chip, Soft Pink Truth [and] DFA in addition to Bobby Birdman, Anna Oxygen, and Andrew Kaffer, among others. The DVD portion of the release will feature a tour video by Matthew Chambers, music videos that we re making, real and fake commentary, Google image searches rdquo; and, of course, the above referenced more awesome bullshit. Adem's Love Hits U.

S., Tours With Juana Molina Not to be confused with arch-Google-rival the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, singer/songwriter/ -dude makes fanciful folk pop songs about love, outer space, and more love. His latest, the appropriately titled , crash-landed in the UK back in April, when we could actually count Pluto among those other planets.

Love arrives on Pluto-bereft American shelves at last on September 26, courtesy of the cool cadets at
The 12-track affair features tunes co-mixed by Adem s Fridge compatriot, Kieran Hebden (aka ). Adem will celebrate its release by seeking love on this planet next month, launching a 14-date tour with on October 8. Bring a few extra bucks to these gigs, as Adem will be hawking copies of an exclusive tour CD featuring the video for Love s Launch Yourself , along with remixes by Four Tet, Hot Chip, and others.

It ll be, um, out of this world. No doubt about it. Fridge, meanwhile, , to see release sometime during the cold months of early next year.

Good googly moogly! is on fire. As we continue to recover from his here in Chicago last weekend, Gregg Gillis has revealed that he s been in the studio (read: bedroom) recently, working on remixes for Beck, Grizzly Bear, Teddybears, and Peter Bjorn and John.

Beck likes Girl Talk so much he not only tapped Gillis as an opening act for a London show a couple weeks ago, but also commissioned not one but two remixes of his new song Cell Phone s Dead from the un-DJ. One remix features live instrumentation and the other samples. We can t wait to hear the results.

Girl Talk is on the road right now, with shows scheduled all the way through December.
OK kids, time to expand the vocabulary. Today we ve got a noun, bricolage, meaning 1) (according to Dictionary.

com) something made or put together using whatever materials happen to be available, 2) an Orange Juice-chugging from the UK, and 3) (pl.) the title of master composer/musician s upcoming remix project.
Stock boys everywhere will pack record store shelves with Bricolages on September 19, courtesy of America.

Artists including Cornelius, Craig Armstrong, Richard Devine, Fennesz, Alva Noto, and others formed this 13-track release by remixing material that happened to be on Sakamoto s 2005 solo release, Chasm. Sakamoto took home an Oscar, a Grammy, a Golden Globe, and a whole slew of other awards for his score to Bernardo Bertolucci s 1987 best picture The Last Emperor. So he s a pretty big deal.

In fact, he s taking an executive producer credit (in association with Norika Sora, Evan Balmer, Justin Kleinfeld, and Eric Giambertone) for Bricolages. Nothing like seeing your name in the liner notes, right?
A few weeks ago, Australian indie pop band sent out a filled with news.

In addition to an update about their new album (which we ll get to in just a little bit), the band announced that they have slimmed down to a six-piece, as members Tara Shackell and Isobel Knowles (no relation to Beyonce) have left the group. Their presence and pizzazz over the past few years has helped make AIH what we are, the group wrote. We want to thank them endlessly for their heart and energy and wish them the very best with their future endeavors.

As for their third full-length, the follow-up to last year s In Case We Die, the jamz are sounding dope, though, we are probably getting a little too into [member] Cameron [Bird] s Latin percussion drum machines (the Phil Collins influence is definitely putting a damper on that!) We got in touch with Bird, who said that Architecture in Helsinki are hard at work on a little pan-continental cyber-sonic wang-exploration. He provided Pitchfork with a kind of verbal blueprint of the new album.

So maybe the debut album from controversial pop icon was never destined for a simple life. Sometime last week, British guerrilla artist doctored 500 copies of her CD-- adding new artwork (e.g.

superimposing a dog s head onto her body), fake song titles ( Why Am I Famous? , What Have I Done? , and What Am I For?

), plus a remix CD to replace the original disc. The albums were signed Banksy/DM and distributed across 48 record stores in the UK. So who is this DM -- the supposed guerrilla DJ behind the remix album?

It appears that it s none another than . , Danger Mouse s management company, said, Waxploitation can confirm the rumors that the DM referenced on the Banksy/DM Paris Hilton CD is in fact Danger Mouse. Danger Mouse and Banksy are believed to have met whilst shopping for disguises in a Soho joke shop.

The only comment they have so far offered on their remix is Its hard to improve on perfection, but we had to try.
Apparently, no one has complained about or returned the doctored versions of Paris. Maybe they realize that when a legendary guerrilla artist and a legendary producer team up for an amazing social-commentary-cum-practical joke, well, that s hot.

LDN was the first track most of us heard from s recently released (in the UK), Pitchfork-recommended , and aside from its blog popularity, this is probably because it was, technically, the first single from the album. But that first pressing was limited to 500 copies on 7 vinyl, an amount and format that left the majority of us out in the cold.
Thankfully, Allen is throwing a bone to those of us who didn t hop on the LDN train the first time around by releasing it again, this time on CD as well.

The single comes out September 25 in CD and 7 formats. One version of the CD single will include LDN , a cover of the Kooks Naive , the LDN Warbox Original Dub, and the song s video. The other CD single version and the 7 will feature granny-dissing favorite Nan You re a Window Shopper as a B-side.

A plethora of remixes and a live version of LDN (including the aforementioned Warbox Original Dub, the Wookie Remix, the Switch Remix, the South Rakka Remix, and a Live at Bush Hall version) will also see digital release shortly, but if you d rather try your own hand at an LDN remix, Allen is holding a contest for you to prove your mixing mettle. She s made the raw pieces of the song available to fans , so work your magic, and Lily might just reward you with a spanking new pair of Lily s self-styled exclusive Nike IDs, according to her website. So you may not be able to get into her pants, but at least you can get into her shoes.

Need inspiration? Scope the technicolor LDN video .
Finally, Allen will support New York s Scissor Sisters on their November tour of the UK.

Don t forget that she also has her own dates (including a handful in North America) in October.
give Strings dancing legs on this pleasant enough remix, though things do get a little uncomfortable when they let Yuki s vocal lines play uninterrupted over a repetitive synth line that is clearly out of tune with her. It s a failed Everything in Its Right Place there for a minute, but the beat takes over again and steers the track back into the dark dance territory where it started.

If you re thinking you might want to actually dance to the sweet and tangy sounds of AS Citrus live, you can see the band on their upcoming North American tour, to which they have recently added seven dates. buddylist (it s hard, we know) and check out our second-favorite just announced that they will spend the fall touring North America, mostly in the company of . The trek is in support of the Grizz s debut, Yellow A video for track three, Knife , is currently in the works, and Grizzly Bear have put their own upcoming remix album, Satanic Twins, due tomorrow via .

And just for fun, make sure to check out Grizzly Bear s to scope out pictures of Chris Taylor giving Rose of a haircut! We are so jealous right now.
might think her songs are like this, but other artists really think it s like this.

On November 21, will release a Mirah remix album titled Joyride: Remixes. In the spirit of family members retelling each other s stories around the dinner table, the 22-track double album features contributions from K friends and family, including Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie/The Microphones), Guy Sigsworth (Frou Frou), Melanie Valera (Tender Forever), Khaela Maricich (The Blow), Jona Bechtolt (YACHT/The Blow), Cindy Wonderful (Scream Club), Anna Huff (Anna Oxygen), Luke Fischbeck (Lucky Dragons), and others. Architecture in Helsinki Tour, Get Remixed In case we die, we d better have a bunch of artists lined up to remix us and keep the legend going.

will release a tour-only remix album, We Died: They Remixed, featuring reworked versions of tracks from their 2005 album In Case We Die by Hot Chip, Mocky, Safety Scissors, Squeak E Clean, DJ Medhi, Dat Politics, Isan, and more. And a tour-only album means a tour, duh. AIH will hit the road with the Blow and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah in September.

Dates below.
to work on its third full length. The title is in the works, but it is slated for a 2007 release.

Both tracks from the new record and a bunch of covers will be played on the road.
go, the man has teamed up with legendary jazz drummer (with whom Explosions in the Sky to Battles, plus remixed oh, every musician ever. OK, not really, but his remix discography-- which spans six years-- does have a noticeable depth and breadth to it, including reworkings of music by Radiohead, Hot Chip, Beth Orton, Bloc Party, Madvillain, His Name Is Alive, and Aphex Twin, to name just a few.

25, will pay tribute to Four Tet s impressive remix catalogue with a two-disc release titled, creatively, Remixes. Disc one contains twelve of Hebden s personal favorite remix projects, while Smile , s UK chart-topping summer jam has gotten a sweaty club makeover courtesy of Baltimore/NYC DJ/producer and his partner . Bringing silly Lily to the streets, the pair have layered synthesized handclaps, electro-fuzz, and aggro WHAT!

WHAT!s over Lily s chopped-up vocals to produce a club mix that ll give Allen-ites something else to play, like, a million times. (Current plays on Smile : 786,891!

) The Smile remix isn t the only thing on Aaron LaCrate s plate right now. The man-about-town has been busy championing Baltimore club music everywhere from mix tapes to MTV, producing and remixing (along with Debonair Samir) Spank Rock, Jurassic 5, Busta Rhymes, Jim Jones, E-40 and others, and designing shoes through his clothing label in collaboration with Vans. LaCrate will release his self-produced solo debut Bodymore Murdaland (featuring Lily Allen, Biz Markie, Uffie and others) next year, as well as a mix tape on Koch this October.

Allen isn t slowing down either. The fast-rising star tours the UK and Australia in August and on into the fall.
Exclusive: Flaming Lips, DFA on Goldfrapp Remix LP love to be played with, manipulated, tweaked, and generally poked and prodded.

Over the years, Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory have let plenty of musicians put their dirty hands all over their body of work, and soon, they ll reveal the fruits of some of those lascivious unions. On October 17, in America only, will release We Are Glitter, a collection of Goldfrapp remixes from the likes of the , the DFA, Alan Braxe Fred Falke, M u m, and more. All of the originals come from Goldfrapp s latest album, Supernature, except for a re-worked version of Strict Machine from 2003 s Black Cherry.

Goldfrapp themselves have remixed that track, and it will also appear on the Miami Vice soundtrack ( ). el Oso is set to get remezclado. According to Babelfish, that s remixed in Spanish.

Can t be sure if that s correct, but it sure of Dim Mak Records), P.O.S.

, Fog, Pretty Girls Make Graves Jay Clark, Dark Baby, IQU, and the slew of yet-to-be confirmed artists will remix Minus the Bear s 2005 album in its entirety. The remix disc, currently untitled, is due February 20, 2007 on . P.

O.S. and Minus the Bear will join forces on the road as well.

The two, plus Russian Circles and the Velvet Teen, have scheduled tour. Don t Minus the Bear ever get homesick for those cold, damp, everybody and their mom has a remix album these days, why not ? According to the group s label, , Do You Trust Your Friends, a track for track interpretation of Stars last album, Broken Social Scene, Metric, the Dears, the Elected, and Junior Boys, among others, is due out in the fall.

the Tombs in May, Stars frontwoman is saddling up for a tour of her native Canada, making stops at the Hillside Festival in Guelph, Ontario and the Ottawa Folk Festival, as well as playing a New York show in October (her sole U.S. date at the moment).

the moment, Stars only have two future shows scheduled: an appearance Limits festival in Austin, Texas on September 15. Forget warring with the mystics, are now battling the pink . Wayne and the boys recently remixed on in the UK.

Titled Satin Boys, like waiting for water to boil. Fortunately, James Murphy is keeping things moving with another remix collection from his partnership with Tim Goldsworthy, DFA/ , collects the duo s tweaks of tracks by Junior Senior, N.E.

R.D., Nine Inch Nails, Goldfrapp, Chromeo, Tiga, Hot Chip, and UNKLE.

The collection marks the fifth anniversary of the label, taking place this September. step back into the studio, those energetic indiepop kids are giving fans a little somethin somethin to tide them over. Combines, a five-track remix EP-get this-combines the talents of various Shout Out Louds allies in a series of remixes from the band s LP Howl Howl Gaff Gaff.

Besides the four remixes, there s also one new song, I Meant to Call , produced by fellow Swedish act Harlem. The EP, now available on iTunes and at various indie music outlets, contains the following by himself, so he rsquo;s trying to make the rest of us crazy as well by surrounding Octagon with the greatest possible amount of mystery and complexity. The newest twist in the saga of the greatest doo-doo rapper alive is the release of a digital comic accompanied by remixes of material off the new album.

According to a press release, the comic, the first episode of which is being released today, will feature illustrations, written blurbs serving as chapters in the ongoing story, and streaming mp3s in each of its eight weekly installments leading up to the release of the album. And at the current rate of exchange between Earth currency and whatever they use on Jupiter, all of these things are being offered for free. On the musical side of things, the project will feature remixes by Aliens, Kid Loco, Cassettes Won t Listen, DJ ESE, and Catchdubs, with other potential contributors including Aesop Rock, Prefuse 73, Her Space Holiday, and Spank Rock.

However, today s inaugural episode will eschew remixes in favor of a 20+ minute mixtape sampler of music from the album. All of these tracks will only be released as downloads with the comic, which you can access by visiting music.download.

com, soundslam.com, IGN.com, or Audible Treats.

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