Star Slinger remix of The Go! Team: Apollo Throwdown

After an extended hiatus for life, I'm back with a passion. Since the last time I wrote for you guys, I've moved cities, I've been broken up with, I've has a couple different jobs, I've started new relationships and ended them. I've seen a hearse do a doughnut, I've climbed the highest mountain I could see just to scream off the top of it. I've driven more hours than I care to calculate, and I'm still not where I want to be. Now, the music.

The Go! Team are a Brighton, United Kingdom-based six piece band (with two drummers!!) whose songs are a mixture of action-theme songs, cheerleader's chants, noise-pop guitars and early hip-hop, with a hint of some 1970's funk. On record, their songs are often pieced together from samples, although live the songs are performed mostly with live instruments.

Hippie Sabotage remix of Kyla La Grange: Cut Your Teeth

UK based singer Kyla La Grange's latest track "Cut Your Teeth" is intricately laced with soothing vocals that explore the rhythmic sensation of pop as well as R&B, with basic percussion and droplets of indie and scratchy futuristic sounds. Although Kyla La Grange is quite the colorful woman, equipped with a vibrant presence and pastel rainbow-colored hair, her vocals also carry their own weight with a  brightening effect. With that in mind, it's quite interesting to delve into the remix that Cali-based production duo Hippie Sabotage have spun to the turntable.  Hippie Sabotage alter the song's original poppy aura by drastically lowering the pitch, morphing it into a sound that closely resembles what an AlunaGeorge and an XXYYXX fusion might sound like. Overall, this remix of "Cut Your Teeth" beautifully contrasts with the original by adding thicker and heavier dimensions to the already existing one. 

Toprider remix of The Outfield: Your Love (Sunrider remix)

Topmodelz is the dance project of German DJ Pulsedriver. The Outfield, though, is a 1980's English powerhouse that was overly popular in the United States, topping the billboard charts at number 6.

Catching Flies remix of Mt. Wolf: Life Size Ghosts

I'm not even going to look up anything about either of these bands; they're literally the only things standing between me and a funk that even black tea with honey can't fix. They're the sunshine on a shit day, where the weather is 18 degrees and the world is sheathed in snow; where the person you love doesn't even know you exist, where your parents forget your birthday, where your car's service engine light kicks on, where music isn't even real anymore....They're between that and me, and they're doing a damn good job of keeping the "Life-Sized Ghosts" at bay.

Teen Daze remix of Nils Frahm: You

This track is a take on Nils Frahm's You. Frahm, being a student of Nahum Brodski (taught by Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky), plays ridiculously well, and is versed well in both the classical and contemporary stylings. His melodic chords are gorgeous!

Schlohmo remix of HAERTS: Wings

Schlohmo is an artist from Los Angeles, California, known to his mother as Henry Laufer. The 23-year-old producer  is a lo-fi beat junkie and field-recording enthusiast, whose crackling, low-BPM compositions update Boards of Canada’s filmstrip-soundtrack wooziness.

An LA native, Laufer grew up listening to “stuff like DJ Shadow, Amon Tobin, M83 stuff with some sort of cinematic vision.” He started making beats when he was 14, but “didn’t really do it with any sort of purpose until I was like 17 or 18. That was also around the time he and his friends, already fans of Flying Lotus, discovered Low End Theory.

Slow Magic remix of Sun Glitters: Too Much To Lose

I've raved about Slow Magic before, so I'll rave about Sun Glitters instead. Sun Glitters hails from Luxembourg and is an ocean of lush melodies, ghostly digi-diva choirs, pitch-shifted vocal samples, and warm bass melodies driven by alternately dense and relaxing beat-work combinations between down-tempo and wonky beats.

Star Slinger remix of Coolrunnings: I Am You

Another one of Star Slinger's amazingly delicious mixes to the flavour of Coolrunnings.

Tove Lo remix of Hippie Sabotage: Stay High

Tove Nilsson, also known as Tove Lo, is a female singer and songwriter from Stockholm, Sweden, whose style can be defined as an indie-pop mood, with a minimal beat and some stringy-synths,  with a side of agile and witty lyrics. Lo’s favourite subject is love, though she presents it in some naughty ways, but with a classy outcome nevertheless; this is an expression of Lo’s musical identity: a plucky style that’ll knock your socks off for sure!

Gespleu Downcast edit of MGMT: Electric Feel

WHO IN THE WORLD IS GESPLEU DOWNCAST?!?!?! 

Keljet remix of The Temper Trap: Love Lost

Keljet is an indie-disco project involving Netherlands natives, Koen Mestrum and Teun Pranger, who have produced various original and remixed songs with astounding awesomeness. The indie-disco ideology that they indoctrinate songs with is infectious, and I don't have an antidote.

The Temper Trap is an Austrailian indie-rock band from Melbourne, though now relocated to London, England. 

Arion remix of Diddy featuring Skylar Grey: Coming Home

Arion is a Mississauga, Canada based fellow who's specialty is rap & hip hop, but is renown for his dubstep work, which includes a dubstep Pokémon remix. His use of electronics in this piece enhances the song beyond recognition, and changes it so that it stands on it's own legs rather than leaning on the original.

Skylar Grey's voice is about the only original element, which is about 127% okay, as her Mazomanie, Wisconsin-raised voice is heavenly, as her popularity and her fan-base is soaring towards the heavens. She's rather versitile, being a grammy-award-winning artist for multiple instruments and songs...she's written for Rob Thomas and Avril Lavigne and collaborated with more than I care to list. 

Slow Magic remix of Satellite Stories: Sirens

Courtesy of +Kristen Shive, I discovered a band that's been creeping around my music library since September of last year, with the release of their new album Pine Trails. Satellite Stories is a Oulu, Finland based indie-rock band packed with energy. My ear detected similarities between the new album Pine Trails and Two Door Cinema Club's 2010 album Tourist History, and I like it a lot.

Slow Magic is music from "your unknown imaginary friend." 

Star Slinger remix of Alpine: Icypoles

I've already written about both Alpine and Star Slinger, and I'm still an avid fan of both, as evidenced in this mellow autumnal tune that just keeps spinning and spinning.

DannielRadall remix of Keep Shelly in Athens: Running Out Of You

DannielRadall is a Mexican producer of...New Wave. I'm sure that's not what you were thinking I was going to type, but nonetheless. He's also a former jam producer from Miami Vice, and he's known as the leading edge of New Wave in his country, being one of the few from the area to actually receive recognition, through the use of some chill electronics.

Roughmath (remix of Vanity Theft): Bit by Bit

Leo Crossing, Roughmath, hails from Farnham, Britain. Leo tried his hand at several things before finally settling into the dubstep role, as the genre became more prevalent. This mix showcases his talents in regards to this particular genre, with some really nice electronic accompaniment and when the beat drops, you feel it! I kinda am curious as to the source of his vocals, though. 

Robotic Pirate Monkey (remix of Tim McMorris): Overwhelmed

Robotic Pirate Monkey is a trio of editors mixing dubstep with sampling and some upbeat funk. 

Pierce Fulton (remix of Mute Math): In No Time

This is a Pierce Fulton remix of Mute Math's "In No time." The original is spectacular, but I do love some beats. Pierce was born with a guitar in his hands, and hasn't ever put it down. Constant experimentations have led Pierce through many ventures, including, classic rock, reggae, metal, classical, house, trance, and IDM.

Bassnectar (remix of Nina Simone): Feeling Good

Bassnectar (Californian Lorin Ashton) is always trying new things, or putting new spins on old things. This isn't an exception, though it's a great idea. "Dude. Let's take a big band mix with heavy jazz and soul, and throw some beats and bass in the mix!!" That's a recipe for success, any day. 

The Get (remix of Dawn Golden and Rosy Cross): Blacks

Gary Get does a really nice job mixing such a beautiful song, blending the smooth ambient with glitches and beats in a fashion that doesn't destroy what was already present in the original song.