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Miss Kittin & The Hacker - "Party In My Head" (Thieves Like Us Remix)

We're very excited to hear that Thieves Like Us have a new EP out. Really Like To See You Again was released June 9, and from what we hear, it continues the hot streak their album, Play Music, set them out on.

Their label asked us nicely not to post anything from the EP, and so we're going to do the next best thing: offer you a remix off Miss Kittin and the Hacker's latest single, "Party In My Head." The "Heart of Glass"-esque drum programming at the beginning is Kittin's, but the Paradise Garage-y bobs and churns? That's all Thieves, right there.

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Mochipet - "Marshall Bass Stacks"

The Microphone Tour Jams were some of our favorite secret weapons of last year. Conceived of as warm-up fodder for Bay Area producer Mochipet's tours, they were dense and intense amalgamations of electro house, hyphy, ghetto-tech, Southern rap, and more.

We fantasized about a more official release of the stuff, and now something very similar has come into being: Master P on Atari. A pummeling, deadly face-melt of an album, this shit is like Megasoid on steroids, or Two Fingers filled with an insatiable bloodlust. All your eardrum are belong to us.

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Terry Lynn & Johan Hugo - "Jamaican Girls"

As all you GBH regulars know, we're thrilled that companies are starting to commission music to promote their brands. Ventures like Green Label Sounds and the Scion A/V Series give us unimpeachably good music at an impossibly good price (read: free), and we see this as one of many ways to keep the music business alive.

The good people at Red Stripe are now getting in on the action, and their debut album, It Was Written, is designed to shed light on the wonderful influence Jamaican music has had on the world. This, the first of several tracks that Red Stripe's giving away for free (check here for the other four), is a bumping, muscular summer jam, full of deep bass, bright keyboard stabs, blurting sirens, and superb vocals by one of Jamaica's rising stars, Terry Lynn. Drink it in, and drink deep.

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GBH Radio Episode 22: MASSIVE!

This week's episode is a doozy. After listening to last week's show a little, Max decided he's totally sick of listening to disco and boogie, and vowed to come back to house and techno. The results, which feature new work by Hugg and Pepp, Renaissance Man, Yuksek and Brodinski plus championship-caliber choons by Laidback Luke and A-Trak, Booka Shade, Calvin Harris, and Idiotproof, are strong as hell, even though Max decided it would be hi-la-rious to bust out his Pete Tong impression on the air. (E-mail him and tell him that it's really not that funny)

Sam, just for the sake of balance, showed a bit of his softer side, mixing Sammy Bananas' mix of Passion Pit's "The Reeling", Fred Falke's mix of Grizzly Bear's "Two Weeks" and the massive Thin White Duke mix of Sneaky Sound System "It's Not My Problem" into a big nasty stew of bass fury (Dolby Anol) and ghetto house (Rye Rye).

Click here to check out the tracklisting and stream Episode 22.

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King Jaffe Joffer - The Indestructible Beat, Volume One

The 33Hz guys are working overtime these days. In addition to resuscitating their Dither Down label (home of the immortal Paris, Texas!) and writing new material, Tim and his pal DJ Chicus have started up a new production team called King Jaffe Joffer. No word on whether they plan on dressing up like James Earl Jones in Coming to America when they play out (please, Jesus, let them do that), but if this mix is any indication, they do plan to play lots of bonking, exotic, diaspora dance music: South Rakkas Crew, Yellowman, Bonde do Role, Edu K, Buraka Som Sistema, etc.

Hey Major Lazer: if you're still looking for opening groups for your tour, look no further.

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Terry Urban & Gold Coin Clothing Presents: Southerngold

Errbody like dat Santigold. Errbody like dat Southern hip-hop. So who's excited about this Terry Urban mixtape, the one that puts people like T.I., The-Dream, Slim Thug, Ying Yang Twins, and Rick Ross over the instrumentals from Santi's debut?

Errbody!

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Hot Chip - "Touch Too Much" (Fake Blood Remix)

Fake Blood is coming! And we are EXCITED!

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White Lies - "Nothing to Give" (M83 Remix)

White Lies are not a band that remixes easily. Their music is so brooding, Harry McVeigh's voice and lyrics so dark and angsty, that both will cut right through your standard 4/4 blog-house treatment.

The only solution, of course, is to find a remixer capable of going pound for pound with White Lies in the drama department, an artist whose stock and trade is also teenage melodrama. Someone like M83, for example. That would work really well.

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Little Boots - "Remedy" (Esser Dub)

Well, now you can cross "dubstep" off the list of things Esser doesn't do. That leaves sword juggling, rhinoplasty, and some really unspeakably disgusting sexual acts, but really, that's it. Quite a short list.

Anyway, as you'd expect from Esser, this takes Little Boots's "Remedy" and turns it into something shuddering and nasty...but not too shuddering and nasty. Awesome.

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Fenech-Soler - "LA Love"

Back when we heard that Alan Braxe was going to start putting out music by *gasp* bands through his label, Vulture Music, we were a little surprised. Vulture is supposed to be about Alan Braxe and Fred Falke! Epic, dreamy filter disco, not whiny smelly indie rock!

Turns out we should've thought this through a little better. Fenech-Soler, a quartet from King's Cliffe in England, would probably make beelines for the same used electro-funk singles at a record store as Dave 1, and, in all likelihood, fight desperately over them.

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Esser - "Long Arms"

It seems like this new Esser album could sound like a million different things. The first song he released, "Satisfied" had a strangely Specials-y quality to it, and this, a freebie his new U.S. label, Chocolate Industries, is giving away, sounds like a slightly more under control Jamie T. So, to recap, the new Esser album could be really awesome, or really fun, or really great.

We can't wait.

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Pony Pony Run Run - "Hey You" (Dance Mix)

This is going to be huge.

That is all.

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Cubic Zirconia - "F#$& Work" (Dances With White Girls Remix)

Well, the kids today have an anthem now.

The aptly titled "F@#& Work", by Cubic Zirconia, the mercurial Nick Hook's latest project, is like Simian Mobile Disco's "Hustler" crammed into a washing machine filled with sweat-crusted acid house, disco, and post-punk, and we expect to be hearing it out a lot.

It isn't getting its official release until June 23, but when it does, it'll come with a buttload of remixes, including work by Dam Funk, Nacho Lovers, Dekker & Johan, and this nasty piece of work by our boy Dances With White Girls.

F@#^ work, indeed.

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Kid Cudi - "Dat New New" (VIKING Remix)

PJ the Viking is ascendant. Ever since we found this Virginia-based producer a few months ago, we figured he would be a slow builder, someone who would take a while to make a name for himself.

Why, you ask? Well, it's simple, really. PJ is one of those rare finds, a producer with great compositional chops as well as a killer pop instinct, and, um, people, don't like that..?

Wait, let's start again. When producers pay as much attention to song craft as they do to their sound design and their hooks, then, um, they take a long time to become popular. Because their songs are awesome, and people don't always like awesome songs...hmmm...

Whatever. It made sense at the time!

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GBH Radio Episode 20: BANG!!

Another week with only one Manly DJ. This time Sam L. Jaxxxon was in charge, and dude was armed to the teeth: Basement Jaxx bootlegs, collaboration fire from Laidback Luke and Diplo, Crookers vs. Clipse, Disco Villains, Calvin Harris, DJ Excel, Don Diablo...just ridiculous.

Click here to check out the tracklisting and stream Episode 20.

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Filthy Dukes - "This Rhythm" (Fred Falke Remix)

Simple and sexy, all in under four minutes!

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Lily Allen - "The Fear" (Duke Dumont Remix)

Thank God for Duke Dumont. Dude keeps his head down, stays on his game, and the results are pretty uniformly incredible: "Hoy"? That "Run It" remix? The "Two Doors Down" reconstruction? That last one in particular was great, because it completely transformed the original, pretty much to the point of unrecognizability. And if it weren't for that little vocal drop at the beginning of this guy, the same could said here. Keep your eyes peeled, the kid's a star.

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Simian Mobile Disco featuring Chris Keating - "The Audacity of Huge"

It turns out Chris Keating and his band, Yeasayer, are currently recording a new album upstate. And that's amazing news for those of you who loved All Hour Cymbals, but frankly, we're more concerned with this.

The new Simian Mobile Disco album, Temporary Pleasure, will apparently feature vocal contributions from everyone from Beth Ditto to Alexis Taylor, but they're going to have a hard time topping this rap (yes, this rap!) that Keating turns in here. Wowee.

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Phoenix - "Lisztomania" (Holy Ghost! Love Paris Remix)

Everybody was all over the Classixx mix of this track, but how this managed to stay under the radar for so long we'll never know. Slightly more involved than most of Holy Ghost's earlier remix work, but Alex and Nick don't let the complexity trip them up.

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The Whitest Boy Alive - "1517" (Morgan Geist Remix)

In a word, this is magnificent.

Both Morgan Geist and the Whitest Boy Alive make vulnerable, soft disco-influenced pop, and Erlend Øye and Geist have a history of working together; Geist remixed "Casualties," a track that Øye guested on back in 2007. So when the Whitest Boy Alive released Rules, their most delicate release yet, we're sure Geist was one of the first people they called.

Epic and understated, all at the same time.

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Japanese Popstars - "Delboy's Revenge"

We know, we know: if you hear just one more crappy, amateurish piece of electro, you're going to jump out the window.

Well, get your ass away from that ledge and celebrate. The Japanese Popstars, a trio from Derry, Ireland (of all places!) seem to know their way around their synthesizers. But more importantly than that, they know that songs are supposed to have structure! And hooks! And irresistible construction...this probably explains why they won a DJ Mag award for Best Breakthrough Producers.

These dudes are a huge get for us. We can't believe we're popping their U.S. cherry. Awesome.

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Passion Pit - "Little Secrets" (Carpe PM Remix)

This has been a long time coming. Carpe PM is comprised of DJ Jess, a downtown mainstay and one of the founders of TRASH!, and DJ Bastard, head of the super-fun Disco Down parties. They have finally gotten into production, and they started out with excellent source material.

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Kennedy featuring Yelle - "John and Yoko"

It's about time Kennedy came back. The dude is back with a new album, Life is a Party, and it's slated to come out...soon.

How soon? We don't know. Honestly, we keep getting distracted by this song...

I'm coming...I'm coming...I'm coming to tell you...

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Jack Peñate - "Tonight's Today"

Ever since we laid eyes on that extremely sexy Alma Har'el video for "Tonight's Today," we've been plotting and scheming, trying to get you guys a copy of the song itself.

Man, are we good at plotting and scheming, or what?

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Claire Hux - "Holy Ghost in the Club" (Bird Peterson Remix)

Claire Hux is Baltimore and Brooklyn, smashed together! DLake and Morsy! Rick James and Scotty B (okay, not literally. But figuratively!)!

Danger enough on its own, but with Bird P in Basement Jaxx mode? Get out of the way!

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Sneaky Sound System - "It's Not My Problem" (Thin White Duke Remix)

Ever since Stuart Price made that last Seal record, he's been off the radar. This was cause for grave concern around here, because we love Stuart Price, and we didn't like the idea that he'd just disappeared into thin air like that.

Thankfully, he's still here, and this remix is amazing.

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Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - "Rothaus" (Groove Edit)

Lindstrom & Prins Thomas's II comes out today, and believe us when we tell you that it is one of the best disco records you're going to hear all year. Hell, we'll go one further and say it puts pretty much everything else they've done together to shame. They've taken the wandering, decadent qualities that their cosmic disco rests upon out into the country; II slides mandolins, banjos, and lazily picked, dusty guitars in alongside shimmering synths and rolling bass. This is psych music first, and categorizable second.

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Phoenix - "Lisztomania" (Classixx Remix)

All our regular readers know that we're not violent people, but boy oh boyare we looking forward to the upcoming battle royale between Phoenix and Passion Pit! Manners and Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix are going to be locked in mortal combat for the hearts and minds of America's youth this summer, and it's going to be awesome, because whoever wins, we win! The battle won't officially begin until next week, but come by the Thompson Hotel this Thursday to see the fighers weigh in. And by weigh in, we mean listen to Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix a few days before it officially drops.

In other news, Classixx is still amazing.

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GBH Radio Episode 18: Turbo-tastic!

When Tiga's about to do a show for you, you pull out all the stops. Gaspar interviewed him, and Max pretty much devoted his entire hour to Tiga and his label, Turbo Recordings. Dude played stuff from Ciao!, from the upcoming comp Omnidance, plus some Kris Menace excitement.

Sam, for his part, exhibited no such brand loyalty, and instead focused on stuff from Mad Decent (Diplo & Blaqstarr, PRGz), Fool's Gold (Kid Sister), and Palms Out (B. Rich).

Click here to check out the tracklisting and stream Episode 18.

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Rye Rye featuring M.I.A. - "Bang" (Hypnos Remix)

We hope Rye Rye knows how lucky she is. As one of the first signees to M.I.A.'s N.E.E.T. label, the girl gets some real international exposure; the first single off her forthcoming album, Go! Pop! Bang!, has remixes by Portugal's Buraka Som Sistema and, uh, Philly's DJ Sega.

This remix didn't make that cut, but we think it speaks to the international thing a bit. The shadowy producer known as Hypnos takes the tempo way down, surrounding Baltimore's finest with toothy wobbles, a nasty middle ground between dubstep and reggae. Nice one.

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The Field - "The More That I Do" (Foals' XIII Remix)

Fans of the new Animal Collective album, Four Tet, and maybe even Caribou are going to love this. This is music for this crucial passage between spring and summer, that period of time when your exams are over, the air is finally starting to warm up, and everything seems possible.

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Beyoncé - "Me, Myself & I" (Laidback Luke Bootleg)

Truth be told, this only-kinda-sorta-just-barely samples Miss Jigga's "Me, Myself and I". But it's awesome, and Beyoncé is awesome, and Laidback Luke is awesome, so really, what could be so bad?

Nothing. Because it's awesome.

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Chairlift - "Evident Utensil" (The Juan Maclean Remix)

Sometimes I think that Juan Maclean takes on remix work only when the song has the right lyrics. And we're not talking about an entire song here, mind you. We're just talking about a snippet, a single phrase that can be turned into a mantra. On Matthew Dear's "Pom Pom," Maclean took the phrase "I've got to figure out love" out to the ends of the acid-drenched cosmos, and here, he the line "How high must I try for you?" and turns it into a mind-expanding incantation, as synth blurts and klaxons pulse for what seems like forever. This is an exclusive for iheartcomix, and they did good.

Right-click here to download it via the iheartcomix blog.
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Royksopp featuring Robyn - "The Girl and the Robot" (Kris Menace First Remix)

Kris Menace has a triple CD out now. It's called Idiosyncrasies, and even though we think that's waaaaay too much music to release in one sitting, we've gotta hand it to him. The man is at the height of his powers.

To give you an idea of what we mean, check out this here remix, where Kris turns "The Girl and the Robot" into a driving, gleaming, nasty piece of work that would make Depeche Mode jealous. Seriously top-shelf.

Click here to download it from zShare (via Sundtrak).
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The Gossip - "Heavy Cross" (Fred Falke Remix)

Oh snap!

So, this freaking rules. Beth Ditto's the best singer Fred Falke is ever going to work with, and he probably knew it, and he didn't want to miss the opportunity. This sounds like prime period Stevie Nicks!

Columbia might've been worried about what they were getting themselves into by signing the Gossip, but Fred Falke probably just gave them the number one selling dance song on iTunes for the next few weeks. Between the thin, dreamy synths and arena-ready rhythm guitar, we could see this mix taking over every single radio station in the country, but quick.

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GBH Radio Episode 17: Deadly Vibrations

If you start screwing around with the microphones in the studio late at night, you never know what might happen. You might, for example, discover a little something called the "reverse gain" function, and have your vocal interludes become a wobbly, echoing adventure. This revelation reverberated (eh? eh?) throughout this week's show, as Max played both sides of the Burial/Four Tet 12" that's been lighting the blogosphere on fire, plus new new from Annie, dubbed out Detroit wildness from Quince and Tano, plus goodies by Tiga, Ilijah Rudman and a 21st century New York City anthem from Floppy Sounds.

Oh, and Sam dropped the Azealia Banks! FIYAH!

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Futurecop! vs. Cut Copy - "Far Away vs. Diamond Cut"

Back in August when Valerie and dreamwave were popping off hard, we came across Futurecop! and we were all like, "Aww fer chrissakes, not another one! Just put away the fucking arpeggiators already!"

Turns out we jumped the gun. These guys are working on their debut album at the moment, and after hearing these goodies, we feel like maybe they were the best of the bunch all along. They figured out that the second line of "Far Away"'s chorus is actually really sad, and that you have to drop it in at the very end, once the party's in full swing, and everybody's too caught up to care about the melancholy of anything.

Click here to stream/download it via the Mad Decent blog.
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Burial and Four Tet - "Moth" (Correction: "Wolf Cub"; Stream)

Epic, psychedelic, narcotic, wide angle view of a city.

Oh yeah.

This is happening.

UPDATE: YouTubez of both "Moth" and "Wolf Cub."

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Golden Silvers - "True Romance (True No. 9 Blues)"

Golden Silvers are next. This smart-assed trio from England sits right on the fence dividing funky and easy, and with their small set-up, they can do a little of everything. Lead singer Gwilym Gold can sound like everybody from Gruff Rhys to Joe Strummer, and here, on his group's biggest song so far, he's in full-on "Magnificent Seven" mode, riffing on life with a unique mix of slyness and silliness. Watch out: it sticks in your head.

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Naive New Beaters - "Get Love" (Blamma! Blamma! Remix)

The new Naive New Beaters record, Wallace, is coming out in France on May 25. Where will you be on that day? If it's not at a record store, or in your underwear, finger hovering over a mouse, waiting to purchase it online, then you better be doing something pretty neat instead. Check your calendars.

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Major Lazer - "Hold the Line" (Ghislain Poirier Remix)

Remember how it went from like 45 to 90 last week, without any warning at all? That's what this song is. Total fire overload. In Poirier's own words, there's nothing too elaborate about it: "This one is the Wha-La-La-Leng riddim with the a cappella from 'Hold the Line.'" That might be true, but this is FIYAH!

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Laidback Luke & Diplo - "Hey!" (Edit)

Sweet merciful Jesus, what is this and where can we get more of it?!

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Waxploitation 2 (Album Stream)

This is so overdue, it's not even funny. As the music industry continues to shift and change in crazy ways, there are people out there who see an opportunity to harness music's energy and use it for something positive. The good people over at Waxploitation create compilations designed to raise money for good causes, and their latest compilation, which features rare, out-of-print, and even some exclusive tracks by artists ranging from Diplo, Matthew Dear and LCD Soundsystem to Devendra Banhart, Múm, and the Decemberists, is meant to raise money for Darfur. 100% of the profits of Waxploitation 2 go toward assisting Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam America and Human Rights Watch in their campaigns in that region, and it doesn't hurt that the music is fantastic. Some of you will go ahead and buy the thing regardless, but the rest of you should click the link below to hear how great a good cause can sound.

Cick here to stream it through MTVU. Click here to pre-order it.
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Empire of the Sun - "We are the People" (Canyons Remix)

The latest Modular signing is taking their biggest opportunity yet and running with it. Canyons, an Aussie duo comprised of Leo Holiday and Ryan Sea-mist, make spacey, yawning music that spreads waaaaay out. We first discovered them when their label, Hole in the Sky, put out a label comp last year, and they've grown a lot. Here, they take the unserious South American vibe of Empire of the Sun's "We are the People" and turn it into an elongated, electrified rain dance.

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Emil & Friends - "Electric Feel" (MGMT Cover)

We can't believe we're typing this, but we just found a legitimately good movie star musician. No, really. No joke. Emile Hirsch writes sighing, squirming, electronics-sprinkled acoustic love songs under the name Emil & Friends, and they're worth a listen if you're ever in the mood for something low-key but engaging. But this, probably the only good cover of this song ever made, is incredible: full of spurting disco samples, blindsidingly soft harmonies, and fizzing synth zaps, this is like a flipbook filled with snapshots of all the times you heard this song and loved it. Download, and turn back the clock.

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Ellie Goulding - "Wish I Stayed"

We're praying that Frankmusik starts producing for other people on a regular basis. As one of maybe a dozen producers to actually possess (gasp!) classical musical training, the man's able to write tidy pop songs that actually hold up under repeated listens.

And a good thing for Ellie Goulding, too. This girl's got a lot to learn, but she's also off to quite a good start. Check out this Frankmusik production, and wish her well.

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Kleerup feat. Titiyo - "Longing For Lullabies" (Joakim Remix)

Remember when we mentioned how happy we'd be if Kleerup's solo debut came out in the US? Turns out somebody was listening: Kleerup's self-titled debut will be released on June 1 by EMI, and we're over the moon.

Of course, that could simply be this Joakim remix talking, which saves the soft-focus melancholia of the original for its home stretch, giving his patient drum programming time to work its magic. Lovely.

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The Sounds - "Dorchester Hotel"

New Sounds! Wild-o!

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Freeland - "Under Control" (Zombie Nation Remix)

Ring the alarm! Adam Freeland might sell more copies of his next album thanSound of Silver. Why? This has the insistence of rock, the fuzz and zap of electro, and plus, the dude kinda sounds like James Murphy.

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Spank Rock - "Backyard Betty" (Two Fingers Bootleg)

These new kiddie producers have the right idea: cram as many genres as humanly possible into a hip hop beat, get somebody filthy in front of the mic, and plug in the money machine. Or activate your Paypal account. But if you're Two Fingers, a production duo comprised of Amon Tobin and Doubleclick, whose self-titled debut came out last week, you've got something that none of these pimply newcomers do: ridiculous studio chops. Just listen to this! This sounds like dubstep, electro, trip-hop, and maybe even Timbaland, and it f*&#$ing knocks.

Right-click here to listen to it via the Butter Team.
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Major Lazer - "Hold the Line" (DJ Edit)

Okay, okay, so "Zumbi" was a joke. It had to be, right? Diplo and Switch can make anything sound cool, but if you're going to put out one of the most anticipated albums of 2009, why waste time with jokes? This will actually be on their record (Diplo says so, and everything!), and, well...crazy doesn't quite do the thing justice.

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Mylo - "Paris 400" (Etienne de Crécy Remix)

Etienne de Crécy and his gigantic DJ booth/Rubix cube thingum are coming to blow your mind! Dude has a new single out on Kitsuné and some big-time remixes in the fryer (we'd tell you, but then we'd have to kill you), but we know most of you are coming out to hear the man's classics. You know, stuff like this.

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Lady Sovereign - "I Got You Dancing" (Young Live Remix)

We think Sov's record label was a little bit hasty to get "I Got You Dancing" out there. Between the public's exhaustion with autotuning and Sov's looming comeback tour dates in both England and America looming, her people rightly assumed that something had to be out there, and album mini-mixes weren't going to cut it.

But really, if they'd held out a little longer, they could've gotten hold of some stronger remixes. The mixes by Semothy Jones and Jack Beats are pretty lame, but this busy piece by Young Live, with its "Blue Monday"-referencing synth line, clanging chimes, and relentless beats, is pretty awesome. And we'll take pretty awesome over pretty lame any day of the week.

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Amanda Blank - "Might Like You Better"

XXXChange knows how to treat a girl right. Dude gave Allison Mosshart's vocals a little more pop on the Kills' Midnight Boom, put Kid Sister on the map with "Control" and "Get Fresh" (though her squeeze, A-Trak, co-produced both), and now he's batting lead-off in the campaign for the long-awaited Amanda Blank debut. The thing's out in July on Downtown Records, and here, XXXChange drops Amanda's legendarily dirty mouth into a minefield of kick-and-cymbal punches, synth pokes and prickles. Hottt!

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Purple Crush & Leif - "Get Digital" (Ben Mono Remix)

Well this is just a clusterf@#$ of cool, isn't it. Purple Crush and the up-and-coming producer/emcee known as Leif getting remixed by Berlin's Ben Mono? Too good.

Epic, in more ways than one.

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Dub Pistols featuring Ashley Slater - "Back to Daylight"


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Project Pat - "Keep It Hood" (Bird Peterson Remix)

Bird Peterson is just like you and me. Despite being impossibly ahead of the competition down in Texas, dude still listens to the stuff the rest of us listen to: Philly soul, southern rap, arena rock, old blues. A lot of blog-house DJs will keep that kind of thing to themselves, but Bird brings it right up to the fore. So when he decides to remix Project Pat's "Keep It Hood," he fortifies that whomping, funky bassline with some O'Jays goodness. Delicious, and nutritious!

Right-click here to listen to it via Party Ends.
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Proxy - "The Raven" (Crookers Remix [Radio One rip])

Oh yeah. You knew this was coming. As busy as Phra and Bot have been lately, there was no way they could keep their mitts off one of the biggest tracks of 2008. Also, it's not like you needed any more excuses to be crazy excited about Friday, but here's another one: imagine hearing this without all the drops.

Wow!!!

Right-click here to listen to it via Neonized Magazine.
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Major Lazer featuring Andy Milonakis - "Zumbi"

That Diplo is some kind of viral marketing genius. Months ago, before the blogosphere even knew what Major Lazer was, the Mad Decent boys released this bit of tomfoolery and let it run its course. People giggled, people gasped, Switch buried his head in his hands, but it certainly stuck in people's heads. So when this apparently real track surfaced a few days ago, blog nerds expecting Andy Milonakis jiggling along to Fela Kuti got a bouncing, zapping surprise: Andy Milonakis talking nonsense into an autotuner, with robotic dancehall bounce behind him. This is a red flag everybody is going to be talking about.

Click here to listen to it through zShare (via Personal Sauna)
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DOOM - "Gazillion Ear" (Thom Yorke Remix)

How cool is it that DOOM is on Lex?! One of the quirkiest, most original voices in independent hip hop on arguably the best international hip hop label of all time? There'll be those who say that Daniel Dumile belongs on an American label, dammit, but while you listen to this remix, consider the possibilities that this marriage offers:

Does Rhymesayers make this happen? What about SRC? Anticon? They might all understand the urge to do something like this, to surround this song, so disillusioned by the pursuit of fame, with blurred, dazed piano, staticy hi-hats, and chilling Yorke coos, and in so doing, turn DOOM's vocals into the voice that rattles around inside one's own head. But would they make it happen? Didn't think so.

Click here to listen to it via Pretty Much Amazing!
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Azealia Banks - "Hood B*tch 2009"

The world isn't ready for Azealia Banks. At just 17 year old, she's filthier than Amanda Blank, faster than Kid Sister, glossier than Lil' Mama, and she's bringing hip house back for real. On her Youthful Offender mixtape, Banks lets the world know that she'll scratch a bitch's eyes out, fuck a dude like a porn star, and slang the best dope on her block, and she does it over stuff like Ladytron's "Seventeen." Get real, real excited about this.

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K.I.M. - "Party Machini" (Tomboy Remix)

When we interviewed Kim Moyes last year, it sounded like he and his musical partner Julian Hamilton were going to be a little more sensible about their touring schedule in 2009. See, the Presets practically toured themselves into the ground back in 2006, and the band didn't sound too keen on doing that again.

But here we are in 2009, and they're touring like mad again. The Presets' North American tour kicks off today, and as soon as they're finished here, they're going for a victory lap in Australia. We fear for their health, obviously, but there are selfish reasons for it. What if there was no more K.I.M.? How would we do without this stuff?

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.
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Nite Club - "Eff $"

Nite Club's debut album, the delicate, but surprising My Tronic, is coming out on Tape Theory on April 6, and we're pretty geeked about the whole thing. Max will be interviewing him on East Village Radio next week, and there's a lot to talk about: dude went to composition school with Dan Deacon, he used to play in a live drum and bass band, and, as "Eff $" illustrates, he's one of those rare talents who can make dance music do anything. Over a deft, improbably tidy mix of house-y piano and bubbling breaks, Richard Spitzer sings to a special someone with the same vulnerability as Jeremy Greenspan. It'll move your feet and make you swoon.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero" (MSTRKRFT Remix)

You didn't think this was going to just bob up and down in the Internet forever, did you? You didn't actually think we wouldn't find this and hook you up with it, right? Honestly.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, it's awesome.

Click here to download it through Mediafire (via STEREO/PASTE).
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Fever Ray - "Triangle Walks" (Tiga's 1-2-3-4 Mix)

Man, thank god we found this. Even though Fever Ray is absolutely not a dance record, we'd secretly been hoping that people would step up and turn Karin Dreijer Andersson's spooky songs into dangerous, dark dance epics. We were thinking Trentemoller, or Radio Slave, or even someone like Matthew Dear.

But we were hoping so desperately for something dark and scary that we forgot about something. Compelling or not, Andersson's lyrics are still really fucking weird, and that's perfect for someone like Tiga, who turns "Triangle Walks" something that's half Scandinavian house, half trap rap beat. 1-2-3-4, indeed.

Click here to download it through Mediafire (via LA Friendly).
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Mikix the Cat - "Movin' Around"

Trouble and Bass started out as a big, fuck-off heavy bass label. Their first releases, which involved people like Math Head, Starkey, and label founder Drop the Lime, were big, wobbly, nasty pieces of work, and they were in a class by themselves because nobody was making ghetto music that hard.

The label tried its hand at poppier stuff for a while (see: Polyhedron), but now, after several tours of Europe, it seems they've finally found a peer in Mikix the Cat, a Parisian DJ and producer who just might be responsible for the best Trouble and Bass release yet. Download this, and let it rattle your skull.

Right-click here to download it via Boule à Facettes.
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The Presets - "If I Know You" (Heartbreak's Italo Disco Mix)

Heartbreak and the Presets are peas in a pod. I mean, think about it: They're both duos. They both make dramatic, almost showy dance music. They're both super-duper stylish. So when Heartbreak takes the Presets' "If I Know You" and wrestles it into something that sounds like it's from two different decades, half mean 909 workout and half Kano-caliber swoon, you just have to figure it's cuz Heartbreak understands.

Right-click here to download it via Aural States.
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Wolfmother - "Back Round"

It broke our motherfucking hearts when Wolfmother disbanded last year. Sure, we heard it had more to do with the band needing a break, but still: we'd just finished tricking out our van with some shag carpet and a sweet He-Man paint job, and it hurt extra hard.

But, the van will ride again: Wolfmother is back, and they sound even more like the White Stripes than ever before. YES!

Click here to download it from the band's website, and get excited!
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Black Kids vs. Mates of State (DJ A Mash-up)

All you indie dance nerds (and we include ourselves in that category) are gonna loooooove this.

P.S. Congratulations to Mad Decent for partnering up with Downtown Records.

Click here to download it from RCRD LBL.
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DJ Mujava - "Township Funk" (Phra's Supertrance Mix)

Remember how we told you last week that super-cheesy trance is coming back?

Well, now that Phra, of the super-powered duo known as Crookers, is in on the action, we officially reverse our stance on the matter.

And we rest our case.

Click here to download it from zShare (via Mola).
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Steve Angello - "Partouze"

Pop quiz, everybody!

You are at the Winter Music Conference in Miami. You are at a party listening to Steve Angello, one of the world's biggest progressive house DJs, do his thing for just the right mix of connected sleazebags, devoted party-goers, and random thrillseekers. Do you:

a) buy some earplugs. Gotta enjoy the music responsibly!
b) find some ecstasy and take it immediately.
c) spend a little too much money at the bar, because why the hell not?
d) ask Angello to play Black Eyed Peas songs, and when he refuses, get your body guard to punch him in the face and cause a giant brawl in the DJ booth, thereby ruining everybody's evening.

If you're Paris Hilton, the choice is apparently quite obvious: D. As in, duh!

Click here to download it from zShare (via Fancy Sounds).
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Empire of the Sun - "Walking on a Dream" (Timothy Marc Bootleg)

Timothy Marc is going to be big. Just you wait. Cheekbones like that? On a DJ? Supermodels beware!

Click here to download it from Mediafire (via Voules Random).
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RkiD, One Man Party & The Prince of Darkness - "The New Mix"

Moshpit dance party! Shout at the devil!.

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Das Racist - "Ring Tone"

Das Racist is here to entertain you. A powerfully blunted duo from Queens, Das Racist combines dubstep, hip-hop, electro, trip hop, dub, and the silliest, most ridiculous mic shenanigans this side of Ninjasonik to create something that will annoy some of you, amuse most of you, and make all of you want to call your local green tickets salesman.

Nerdy types will tell you that Das Racist's other songs, like "Ring Tone" and "Jungle Fever," advance a fresh post-colonial voice. We tell you to smoke an L and bounce to the auto-tuned randomness.

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Doves - "Kingdom of Rust" (Still Going Remix)

Doves are getting their songs remixed now? Really? Do you think their manager had to sit them down and explain what a remix was? God, they must've. But if that's true, then how did he do it? Questions abound: Did he have illustrations? (Absolutely) Bizarre, unwieldy similes? (For sure) Candy? (Seems conceivable) Sock puppets? (...Yes)

We'd bet that most of those things were ineffective (yes, even the candy), but thank goodness management got Still Going to do this remix. Eric and Liz have kept the Doves' trademark grandeur intact here, with a robust bassline, shimmering guitar, and big sad vocals that make the whole thing sound like late period Depeche Mode. Welcome to the aughties, Doves.

Click here to download it via Hits in the Car.
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Top Billin' - "Playboy Anthem"

It was only a matter of time before one of these dadgum blogs got themselves some of that dag blasted corporate sponsorship for their jiminy-christmasin' music postings, and we're glad that Discobelle got there first. Those Swedes are an inspiration to us all, and the fact that Scion's the company ponying up the dough makes us pretty excited.

According to the site's first post about this news: the blog's going to be giving away everything in advance, half the artists featured on the mix will be Swedish, and this funny-ass piece of 8-bit house by the Norwegian impresarios Top Billin', is the lead-off track.

Right-click here to download it via Discobelle.
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Pin Me Down - "The Chain" (Fleetwood Mac Cover)

This Wednesday's Huns & Buds party is going to be the best kind of bizarre: How often do you get Busy P and Russell Lissack on the same pair of turntables? And in a venue as intimate as the Studio? Geddoudaheah. Fuhgeddaboudit.

To put this in perspective, take a listen to this cover that Lissack and his side project Pin Me Down did for the latest Rewind mix. Milena Mepris might not be the next Stevie Nicks, but the production behind her, with that ominous bass, fluttering found percussion and sleigh bells, will have you thinking about taking Thursday off from work.

Right-click here to download it from Rewind 2: The 80's Remix Project.
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Donnis - "Party Works" (Old Money Remix)

Prior to hearing A-Trak's Infinity +1, we'd never heard of Donnis. We wish we had a good excuse for this lapse, what with Donnis being one of these new rappers that isn't afraid to get on tracks over 120BPM, having worked with everybody from Santigold and Mic Terror to, um, Britney Spears.

The original picks up speed in a hurry, but here, Old Money's Konrad hasn't got the patience for that. This is some whoomping madness that starts hot and gets hotter. Be careful.

Right-click here to download it from Attorney Street.
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Miss Kittin and the Hacker - "Party In My Head"

If there's a silver lining to be found in pop culture accelerating the way it has, Miss Kittin and the Hacker are definitely part of it. Their superior debut, First Album, which came out all the way back in 2001, got hidden in the backs of CD wallets when electroclash ODed, and so the two wisely moved on, in separate directions. Fast forward about seven years, when the pair decided to do a reunion tour. Some might've seen that as a cynical cash-grab, and maybe it was. But along the way, the pair found inspiration for some new music, and their new album, Two, actually lives up to the hype that should've followed them all along. "Party In My Head" feels like Blondie's "Heart of Glass" paired with some kind of outsized New Order synths. And as an added bonus, Miss Kittin can kind of sing in tune now. Travel back in time again, like the first time.

Click here to download it from Mediafire (via ::Off the Radar::).
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Dan Deacon - "Wet Wings"

Did you know that Dan Deacon studied music composition at a conservatory? Strange, but true. That fact is not exactly evident in his music, which is sometimes so childish that you wonder whether it was made to express anything more than a caffeinated blurt. But every once in a while, glimmers of that training come across.

Take this track "Wet Wings," for example. Off his upcoming album, Bromst, it takes an elegant snippet of what sounds like an old spiritual and layers it into a howling, hypnotizing fugue of tongues. Aside from some small electronic skimming noises, it sounds like an impossible remastering of some scary Smithsonian Folkways field recording, and it makes the end - just the second line of that aforementioned spiritual - positively chilling.

Click here to download it via Cities of the Plain.
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Phoenix - "1901" (M/F's Nu Wave Mix)

To hear some tell it, Phoenix's upcoming Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is going to be a big freaking deal. The first single, which the band is giving away for free, is a bright and energetic rocker, with an adventurous vocal melody and an excellent hook, and the rest of the album is supposed to be of a similarly high caliber.

It's already getting remixed like crazy, and as so often happens these days, the remix world is having trouble with that melody. Nobody's managed to make anything quite smooth or energetic enough, with one very important exception: Nashville's Mother/Father, who are slowly making a name for themselves in the indie rock world, decided to go as bare-bones as possible, with some simple keyboard bass and some slow dance synth chords. Play it on repeat, and pray for an extended mix.

Right-click here to download it via Winnie Cooper.
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Hot Chip - "One Pure Thought" (Robert Wyatt & Geese Version)

Once upon a time, Hot Chip made remixes. They were always something to look forward to; Joe and Alexis didn't just grab a vocal snippet and turn it into something grim and grinding. They took it upon themselves to totally reimagine the parent material, whether it was the chord changes or the lyrics and melody, and the results usually ranged from inspired to very interesting.

The band has decided that they're too busy to bother with such trifles anymore, but that attitude, apparently, lives on. This magnificent EP by the legendary Robert Wyatt and some string players known as Geese reimagines songs from Hot Chip's Made in the Dark as chamber pop, full of busy passages of pizzicato, heartbreaking violin harmonies, and most wonderfully of all, Alexis and Joe's original vocal tracks, nestled in the middle. One of the most touching, beautiful surprises we've heard in ages.

Click here to download it from zShare (via I Was There...).
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Calvin Harris - "I'm Not Alone" (Deadmau5 Remix)

Well, it's official. Get your ass down to Chinatown and get some glowsticks. That epic, fluttery trance sound is back, and this time, it's there's no denying it. Calvin Harris's "I'm Not Alone" is going to bring it back onto the radio, and Deadmau5 is going to do the rest. This is eight minutes of indie melancholy and "I'm rolling face!" synths, and it takes no prisoners.

Click here to download it via Spacetoasters.
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NT89 - "Delta Phelton"

Leave it to the most stylish country in the EU to create the perfect combination. The Italians are starting to figure out how to take all the aggression of breaks and electro house and inject it into the bubbling, kooky weirdness of tech-house and Nima Tahmasebi, a.k.a. NT89, is the latest of an intriguing batch of Italian up-and-comers that includes Blatta & Inesha and the Crookers. He turns mainstream pop into feverish jacking fodder (check his mix of the Golden Filter's cover of PB&J's "Lay It Down") and his original material leaves marks: "Delta Phelton" is an 8-bit tunneler full of sub-bass riptides, mayhem-inducing vocal alarms, and pulverizing kicks. Get out of the way.

Click here to download it via Vogelspand.
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Royksopp featuring Robyn - "The Girl and the Robot"

Royksopp's new record, Junior, is slated to be released next week, and it might dominate the first dancefloors of spring; Torbjörn and Svein couldn't have asked for a better indie musical climate, and the video for the album's debut single, "Happy Up Here," is tearing up the blogosphere as we speak.

And then there's the whole "We got guest appearances with people like Lykke Li, Robyn, Karin Dreijer and Annell Drecker (the featured vocalist on Melody A.M.)" thing. Yeah. That oughta do the trick.

Click here to download it via gottadancedirty.
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M.I.A. - "Paper Planes" (Cates & dpL's Papered-Up Dub)

As we've explained before, the West Coast duo of Cates & dpL specializes in moody, techy whoomp. In addition to their highly-regarded original productions, they've applied this template to a pretty wide array of popular songs, ranging from the Foo Fighters' "Everlong" to Nina Simone's "It's a New Day," and here, they're whispering softly to one of the wildest, most unruly songs of 2008; everybody from DFA to Diplo to Scottie B took a crack at "Paper Planes," and all their remixes sucked.

But Cates & dpL outsmarted the competition this time by diving underneath the original's samples and dancing in an abyss of bass, 8-bit chirps and a barely recognizable vocal loop of Miss Arulpragasam. Go deep!

Click here to download it from Sendspace (via the Om Records blog).
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Faze Action - "Hypnotic" (Dub Mix)

So you like disco, huh? Think you're getting pretty up on it, eh? Really getting a feel for your boogies and your edits, your cosmic and your space?

Junior, Faze Action has forgotten more about disco than you'll ever learn. They came up and made a name for themselves in the mid-90's, when everybody was zonked out on speed and raving for 50 hours a week (straight), and now in 2009, they're about to get their due. Their upcoming debut album, Stratus Energy, is a masterclass in disco, balearica, and some psychedelia, and if you were wondering why nobody's managed to make a really good disco record this century, we've got one word for you:

Wait.

Right-click here to download it via Waves at Night.
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Shadow Dancer - "Drivetime"

You didn't think we were going to hype up this party without giving Shadow Dancer some love, did you? Pssh. Did you know his debut album, Golden Traxe, got a 9 out of 10 in FM Magazine? True story.

Also true: everybody knows the Farrier brothers best for their hissing, dosed electro-house sound, but "Drivetime," a track off the aforementioned Golden Traxe, shows they're capable of quite a bit more. Full of a wobbly, swooning kind of magic, "Drivetime" is takes the elements found in a million other tracks called "Night Drive" or "Drive By Night" or "Time For the Night" or, um, "Night Drive Through Time By Night We're Driving," and arranges them into something that actually sounds like it was made by artists with coherent voices.

Right-click here to download it via Fluo Kids.
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Moderat - "A New Error"

So it looks like 2009 is going to be the Year of the Really Awesome Collaboration. In addition to the Count and Sinden, which is supposed to come out this summer, and Major Lazer, an album-length collabo between Diplo and Switch (!!!) due in June, there's Moderat, a new project involving the techno-dancehall wackos Modeselektor and the prince of moving, soft-toned techno, Apparat. The album is due in about six weeks, and the combination of Apparat's muted, wistful melodies and Modeselektor's bizarre bounce is fantastic. Where dubstep artists press themselves against the grimy, oil-slicked concrete of the street, Moderat cranes and stretches into the morning sun.

Click here to download it via Kyle Parkinson.
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Flosstradamus featuring Caroline Polachek - "Big Bills" (Jokers of the Scene's After 4AM Rework)

With the annual Winter Music Conference, better known as the Coachella/SXSW/Woodstock/big-fun-time for house music, right around the corner, all its attendees are readying their best new tracks. For Jokers of the Scene, who crashed the party with Fool's Gold's crew last year, this means putting the finishing touches on a set that's likely to sound much more at home with what goes on at most of the WMC parties: bigger, longer, and simpler. Whether this is an indication of where the pair is headed (it's all over their most recent remixes, especially their mix of Congorock's "Runark") is anyone's guess, but maybe down in Miami, people will find out more.

Click here to download it via Mountain Dew's Green Label Sound.
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Depeche Mode - "Personal Jesus" (Boys Noize Remix)

Boys Noize's Myspace profile sez he's "testing [his] new traxe," and that's got us pretty effing pumped; Oi Oi Oi pretty much slayed us back in 2007. But honestly, if he and the rest of the Boysnoize Records posse just stick to old favorites, that'd work just fine too.

Like this guy. They'd better play this guy. This guy is flipping sweet.

Right-click here to download it via Pasta Primavera.
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Midnight Juggernauts - "45 and Rising" (Cut Copy Remix)

There are a lot of reasons we're so excited about Cut Copy's upcoming DJ set at LPR. First, there's the fact that Cut Copy are amazing DJs (they did an installment of Fabriclive!!). Then there's the fact that it's their only DJ gig in the U.S. of the year. But bigger, maybe, than all of that, is the fact that they'd headed back to Oz to work on a third album. And we just know that once they get back down there, they're going to pay more attention to Cutters Records, their little baby imprint that's home to Knightlife and some of their rarer remixes.

Would you object to their being more stuff like this out there? Us neither.

Right-click here to download it via Winnie Cooper.
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Franz Ferdinand - "No You Girls" (Zodiac Cartel Extended Remix)

At some point, we want to track down the first producer who started giving away his/her rejected remixes for free on the Internet. And when we find them, we're going to grab them and give them a big ol' sloppy kiss. This beautiful world is so much brighter and fuller because of you, Mr(s). Deejay Producer Person, whoever you are!

Seriously. Were it not for you, we might never have had a chance to appreciate this Zodiac Cartel work, in which the biggest track off Franz Ferdinand's Tonight: Franz Ferdinand gets expertly chopped up and turned into a driving, malevolent piece of big-room electro house.

Remember, buddy. We're coming for you, wherever you are.

Right-click here to download it courtesy of Zodiac Cartel.
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Armand Van Helden - "Illin' 'n' Fillin' It" (Malente Remix)

The new Armand Van Helden record ought to be pretty damned good. Between this and "Shake That Ass," plus some other things we can't tell you about (shhh!), the follow-up to Ghettoblaster might actually be the hip-house album we've been waiting for all this time. You know, the one that's fresh and fun and actually has capable MCs (ahem, CLP!) on it? Yeah.

We can't say more just yet, but feel free to bounce to this Malente mix in the meanwhile and entertain your wildest fantasies.

Click here to download it through zShare (via Berlin Battery).
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Guns 'n' Bombs - "Riddle of Steel" (Daze of Thunder Bootleg)

It's been lovely watching Guns 'n' Bombs grow up. We first booked them about three years ago, for peanuts (well, peanuts and a bottle of whiskey. They insisted on the whiskey), and now here they are, headlining a tour sponsored by Scion and Kitsuné. They took their sweet time on "Riddle of Steel," their first original production, so we aren't going to just give it away (Go buy it, cheapskate!). But this Daze of Thunder bootleg, which seems to be making the blog rounds these days, is enough to give you an idea.

Come to Studio tonight to get the picture.

Right-click here to download it from Forever Awesome.
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Plant Music Presents: The All Dom Wrong DJ Mix

When last we checked in with Plant Music, we were losing our sh*t over the boatload of "WTF" remixes the label put together. We still get crazy over the Nadastrom one, and don't get us started on the Deekline and Ed Solo versions, or the DJ Wool mix, or...

Moving on, we figure plenty of you are wondering what the label's getting ready for spring. At one point, we were talking to label man Dominique Keegan, a.k.a. All Dom Wrong, about it, and he was all like blah blah blah blah blah and we were like, "Dude! Just make a mix." So he did, and, um....it's really f&*#ing good.

If you like names, though, keep a look out for these: Tittsworth's "Drunk as F*ck" with remixes by Meterhead, DJ Craze, and Top Billin; Clubfeet's "Teenage Suicide" with remixes by Kap10Kurt and Eli Escobar; The Glass's "Wanna Be Dancin'" with mixes by Nadastrom, In Flagranti, and Eli Escobar..

Really. F&$#@ing. Good.

Click here to download it from zShare.

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Emynd featuring Young Chris - "We Don't Give a F$%&" (DJ Ayres & Nadastrom Remix #1)

DJs and producers: ever wanted to have Jay-Z on your track but you were like $399,456.37 short? Well, we don't know what Young Chris charges for guest spots these days, but he sounds just like Jigga, and for that alone, he deserves your attention. Combine it with his excellent taste in producers, and you've got someone who's likely to get a lot of blogspot love this year.

The original "We Don't Give a F$&%" came out in 2008, but Crossfaded Bacon, the tiny Philly label/blog that put it out, is giving away a ridonkulous remix EP for free, complete with work by Eli Escobar, Cousin Cole, and two pair-ups that have us losing our cool: DJ Ayres and Nadastrom, together at last, turning "We Don't Give a F$%&" into a busy, exotic piece of hotness.

Right-click here to download it from FiftyOne: FiftyOne.

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Izza Kizza - "Hello" (DJ Wool Remix; Euro Edit)

DJ Wool understands what a big deal Izza Kizza is. Timbo's protegé is going to be the biggest thing on the radio this summer, and Wool wants to make sure you're all prepared. On this mix, Wool takes Kizza's a cappella and threads it into a warm techno sunrise, with zooming synths, driving, submerged bass, and a tasteful electro-house prickle.

Get ready.

Click here to download it from DJ Wool's Soundcloud.

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Giorgio Moroder - "E=MC2"

Remember advent calendars? You used to look forward to them intensely when you were a kid? They made the two week build-up to Christmas that much sweeter, full of chocolates and random little goodies that were guaranteed to brighten your day? Well, the good people at Thrive Music, who are releasing A-Trak's new mixtape, Infinity +1, on March 17, have decided to try a similar approach in the days leading up to its release.

The track we're offering here, which aaaalmost made it onto Infinity +1's playlist, was technically put on offer two days ago, and it was pretty tough to decide on just one thing. Merry Christmas to all.

Click here to download it from yousendit (via Thrive Music's Infinity +1 Countdown site).

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The Golden Filter vs. AZ - "Solid Gold New York" (The Hood Internet Mashup)

So, how much music do you think the ABX and STV SLV listen to every day? Four hours' worth? Eight hours' worth? Do they stop? Do they sleep with headphones on?

Whatever it is, we hope they never stop.

Click here to download it via Always Hustle.

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Classixx featuring Jeppe - "I'll Get You" (Royal Rumble Edit)

Ooooooooooooooooooooh. Jeppe's doing guest spots now?! How cool is that? We're still a little confused about why Junior Senior broke up, but if their lead singer wants to start lending his pipes to those in need, we're not going to complain. Especially when you consider how many acts just need a good vocal part to put them over the top.

Classixx knows. Regular readers know how much we love their big-room house production (we feel like they could get Lifelike big this year), and here, even in this truncated version spliced together by Royal Rumble, we can hear the seeds of a hit. Like, possibly a very, very, very big one.

Click here to download it via Uh Oh Disco.

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Tiga - "Shoes"

We have to be brutally honest here: we didn't get "Mind Dimension." That combination of the brown-noise-grade bass and the random saxophone? Didn't float our boats.

It definitely made us worry that maybe Tiga was going to overdo it for his second album, Ciao Tiga!, but "Shoes" has (pardon us for a second) kicked those anxieties out the window. It's silly, it's funky, it's almost Prince-y. Yeah. That's right. We said it.

Prince-y.

Click here to download it from yousendit (quickly! via Berezzka)

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Friendly Fires - "Paris" (Aeroplane Remix featuring Au Revoir Simone)

We love it when we get a label's permission to post something around here. Even though we'll always have the "But everybody else is doing this!" excuse, there's nothing quite like offering everybody something that's high-quality and legally offerable. In this case, though, the emphasis is squarely on the high-quality part: Aeroplane has gotten the slo-mo, chugging disco sound down to a science. Here, they take "Paris," one of Friendly Fires' most desperate and endearing songs, and turn it into a warm, inviting promise with just a few small changes. Describing this as beautiful almost doesn't do it justice.

Right-click here to download it via the Beggars Group.

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Telepathe - "Devil's Trident" (XIII Remix)

It's funny how helpful ADD can be in this business. I was on the verge of posting this Lauren Flax remix of Telepathe's "So Fine," when suddenly I got distracted by....something. Whatever it was, all of a sudden the music in my ears was changing, and changing drastically. It certainly wasn't the twitching, despondent mix of "So Fine" anymore. The tempo had changed, and so had the energy. We were suddenly lost in something that had the damp and echoes of dubstep, but also the emptiness of techno. Then we heard the horns, and figured it out: we were listening to the best remix of "Devil's Trident" we've ever found, a haunting plummet through a cavern produced by XIII, who drums in Foals by night and does remixes in the early hours before falling asleep in front of his laptop.

Think Juan Maclean mid-set, and you're close.

Right-click here to download it via FMusic.

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Cazals - "Poor Innocent Boys" (The Shoes Remix)

Once upon a time, there was an indie rock quintet called Cazals, and an indie dance label called Kisuné. The two of them met in Paris one day, and it changed them both forever.

Max'll be interviewing the former tomorrow (possibly about the latter), and to tide you over we're providing a remix of the song that brought these two together. Something to reflect on. While dancing, of course.

Right-click here to download it via Streetkiss Music.

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Calvin Harris - "I'm Not Alone" (Radio Rip)

What is the deal with all these club people writing sad-sack songs about how lonely they are on the road? Oh well. Whatever gets them in the creative mood, we guess: this has superclub sensation written all over it, with that lead melody that sounds like it was ripped off a late 90's Creamfields compilation stabbing out from a buzzing, insistent bassline and trance-esque synth flutters. Get it now, and don't forget to come out next week and get homesick with Calvin.

Click here to download it through Your Media Host (via Pretty Much Amazing!).

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Jesse Rose - "Touch My Horn" (The Hump Day Project's "Dutch My Horn" Mix)

Oh heeeelll yeah. Jesse Rose's What Do You Do If You Don't just came out last week, and that means it's only a matter of time before the rejected remixes and bootlegs start popping up. There's a lot you can do with Jesse's music, and "Touch My Horn," which sounds like a Basement Jaxx party condensed into three minutes, is particularly ripe for some imaginative remixing. Enter the Hump Day Project; the HDP is part of an Australian consortium of producers/DJs called the Troublemakers, and here, they throw the a cappella from Missy Elliott's "Pass That Dutch" over a tidily edited version of "Touch My Horn."

Right-click here to download it via Deckhead.

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Kid Cudi - "'09 Freestyle"

It doesn't seem like "Drop," the Polow da Don beat Cudi's rhyming over, is going anywhere, but we feel like it could become a great mixtape staple (Eventually, somebody's gotta come along and kill it, right?). That's Santogold's voice you hear floating all seasick over the drums, and the clacking mix of handclaps and wood could make Timbaland jealous. Sure, it sounds exactly like "A Milli," but how can anyone call that a bad thing?

Cudi's got one weird-ass flow, but Kanye's attracted to guys like that - Consequence, Rhymefest, even 'Ye himself - and given that Cudi's upcoming album features production work by Mr. West, the Kid's probably going to be weird-ass-laughing all the way to the bank.

Click here to download it from zShare (via Kanyeuniversecity).

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David Bowie vs. MGMT - "Stardust Kids" (A Plus D Mashup)

We know that mash-ups can be pretty hit or miss; too many DJs and bedroom producers will make stupid mistakes, like combining songs that are in different keys or doing a lazy job of making sure there are no awkward overlaps. But we also know that a good mash-up is tough to top, and this is easily the best one we've heard all year. MGMT's "Kids" was one of the defining songs of 2008, but its appeal is timeless, and Bootie's A Plus D decided the only move was to pair it with an equally timeless song, David Bowie's "Stardust."

Right-click here to download it via Soop!

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MSTRKRFT featuring E-40 - "Click Click"

Hey! Did you guys know that the new MSTRKRFT album comes out in three weeks? True story! ALP and JFK couldn't have timed it any better, what with SXSW starting that weekend, WMC just six days later, and then a sleepy little festival called Coachella three weeks after that.

It doesn't look like any of Fist of God's distinguished guests are going to be along for the ride, and that kind of bums us out. Sure, the bill itself would be pretty weird, but every time we think about it, we imagine Raekwon doing hammy air guitar moves and E-40 giving the crowd the sign of the devil. And in our giddier moments, we imagine Ghostface doing a little headbanging/stage diving/crowd surfing.

Click here to listen to it via The Tripwire.

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Congorock - "Runark"

Ohhhhhh snap. When Fool's Gold comes at you, they come at you hard, don't they? First they drop the long-anticipated (maybe a little behind schedule?) Trackademicks 12", and now comes this nutso piece from Congorock, one of those Italian nutjobs cut from the same cloth as Crookers and Blatta & Inesha. Dude's figured out that if you take carnival organ, pitch it up all fucked-up-like and then throw it under some distended bass, it sounds incredible, and that's what's going on here. Plus, that drum programming is 90's house-tastic, and we love 90's house.

Get it, and then tell your friends.

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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Morsy & Koko Dozo - "The Shine"

Being new to this planet and everything, we figure it's gonna take Koko Dozo a while to figure out our customs. There's a lot to learn, after all, and plus there are certain things that most space aliens never pick up on. Take musical collaboration, first of all. Most earthlings won't tell you that they're often really awkward, that they're not supposed to sound really natural (a boomping, jazzy New York house beat) and really hot (the always-delightful Amy Douglas vibing with coke bottle percussion, piano chords, and bluesy guitar licks).

We're going to forgive the space aliens this one time, but only because the results are so good. Turn back your clocks with this one.

Right-click here to download it from Nana Chill.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll"

So it's starting to sound like this new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album is going to do pretty well. First off, Nick Zinner and Karen O (Brian Chase seems to be involved only in name now) have decided to make a New Wave-y, night-out-in-downtown-Manhattan-in-1981 kind of album, or at least an album that sounds like what they imagine those years sounded like. With synths that are both grand and gritty, guitars that ring with confidence, and Karen O gasping and sneering, "Heads Will Roll" sounds like it's bound to keep them in the limelight for a bit longer.

Plus, Kanye debuted it. And that always helps.

Click here to download it from zShare (via Kanye Universecity).

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Bangers n Cash - "B.O.O.T.A.Y." (Slap & Dash Refix)

First Palms Out starts their own record label, now Scatterblog? Too good!

The boys over there have explained themselves, so we won't waste time doing so here. What we will do, however, is extoll the virtues of having one of the world's greatest hip-house/electro/edit blogs finally getting some recognition for what they do. Here, blog founder Scattermish and Mu-Gen turn one of our favorite Bangers 'n' Cash tracks into a surreal, dirt-nasty thug house party.

Right-click here to download it from Scatterblog Music.

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The Golden Filter - "Solid Gold"

The major labels are in deep sh*t, y'all. And when we say deep s#+^, we mean deep !(&* . How are they supposed to compete with stuff like Dummy Magazine, a London-based nightlife web beast that recently decided to start its own record label? See, not only did Dummy have the good taste to assemble a great blog-house cast (The Golden Filter, who seem to be getting better on a weekly basis, plus Mondkopf and Russ Chimes) for its debut release. They've also decided that hosting something people want is more valuable than a random assortment of suckers buying tracks they stumble onto over at Beatport. Or something.

Bottom line: EMI's days are numbered.

Click here to download it from Dummy Magazine.

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Curses! - "The Deep End" (Holy Ghost! Remix)

Admit it: this combination of names doesn't make any sense to you. Curses!? Holy Ghost!? Together at last...? About the only thing these artists have in common is their exclamation points, and that hardly seems like fertile ground for a successful remix collaboration.

But part of what's made each so successful is how bull-headed they can be, and here, Holy Ghost! does what Holy Ghost! does best: roll out the glinting hi-hats, mingle between the bongos and unhurried disco bass, wait for the anticipation to build on the horns, and then unleash the piano chords. It's tried and true, but what takes this to another level is the vocal and guitar work. We have no idea when the new Holy Ghost! single/EP/album is scheduled to come out, but if you put this track on repeat, waiting forever won't seem like the most terrible proposition.

Click here to download it from zShare (via Panda Toes).

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Pet Shop Boys - "Love, Etc." (Gui Boratto Mix)

OMFG, the Pet Shop Boys are releasing a new album! Yes is coming out in late March (Yes!), and "Love, Etc," the first single, is due to drop the week before.

The original version, co-written with someone called Xenomania,moves forward sadly and steadily, but as you might expect, Gui Boratto's take is a little bit more complicated. Boratto takes the original guitar riff, slows it down, and turns it into a repeating flicker at the heart of a nighttime mirage full of whirs, sighs, and Neil Tennant's whispers. One of the best remixes we've heard all month.

Right-click here to download it via Fluokids.

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Thieves Like Us - "Miss You"

Ever since Kitsuné drove "Drugs In My Body" (and, some would argue, their brand's credibility) into the ground last summer, Thieves Like Us kept a low profile. Very low. Like, "Hey, I wonder whatever happened to those dudes," low.

Lucky for us, though, Play Music, their woozy, sneakily addictive debut, will finally come out in America (April 7), and they've got something for us to celebrate. "Miss You" is all kinds of f*cked up - drunk, exhausted, lovesick, maybe a little coked up - definitely not to be left unattended. But by some perverse yet merciful stroke, all those evils blend together in just the right way to get the song home, into your cranium, where it belongs.

Right-click here to download it via Terrorbird.

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Gui Boratto - "Take My Breath Away"

Everything about Gui Boratto's music, from its pacing and production right down to the melodies, seems designed to induce an altered state. On his narcotic debut album, Chromophobia, Boratto got his listeners both coming and going: it managed to both hum with techno's mechanical efficiency and flow with warm, inviting textures. His latest, the wryly titled Take My Breath Away, looks for that same balance in a bleaker environment, and it won't surprise his fans to hear that he finds it. On the album's title track, which Kompakt is giving away, Boratto conjures up a world where almost everything is dead; a limpid pulse guides you past miles of burnt out, humming machinery before finally alighting on a small patch of life. Grab this, and take a tour of the end of the world.

Click here to download it from RCRD LBL.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero"

Okay guys, time out. What's going on here? Where the fuck did Brian Chase go? We don't mind that you guys have grown your sound, that you're making something for a large, diverse audience. We don't begrudge you your popularity or anything like that. We just want to know why you're not using all the tools in your box. Brian Chase makes you guys go! The girls might fuss over Nick's hair, and the boys might harbor Karen O fantasies, but everybody who was really listening knows that Brian was your motor. He made your music exciting, goddammit, and he's MIA here. Is that even him playing that boring little metronomic beat that's mixed into the background? Did you guys replace one of the best post-punk drummers of all time with a DRUM MACHINE!?!! We expect an answer, guys, and we expect one soon.

Love,
GBH

Right-click here to download it from Fileden (via 8/1).

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Mixhell featuring Oh Snap!!! and Jen Lasher - "Boom Da" (Crookers Remix)

Oh man. So, we know this show's almost two months away, but we already can't wait. It's going to be ridiculous. First of all, Phra and Bot will be close to done with their album, and second of all, everybody will be up on these new Crookers remixes by then. This is some new-new that's going to be released in March on New Judas, and we can already hear it bumping and blurting out of Webster Hall's speakers, a bubbly, deranged masher that'll slay at peaktime. Plus, it has a foghorn in it.

Click here to download it from Mediafire (via Going Other Places ).

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Zombie Disco Squad - "Eurovision"

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call perverse market behaviour. Imagine, for a moment, that you (Teki Latex and/or Orgasmic) are starting a new record label. Not just any label, mind you, but a very visible, very star-studded label (Sound Pellegrino) with a very well-respected distributor (Institubes). Would you give away the B-side of your very first release on one of the most popular dance music blogs in the world?

No, no you would not. Especially not if it were a hooting, filthy, piece of baile funk. That wouldn't make any kind of sense. None whatsoever.

Click here to download it from zShare (via Discobelle).

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Architecture in Helsinki - "Like It Or Not" (El Guincho Remix)

As we've pointed out before, Architecture in Helsinki's music is perfect for cultural cross-pollination. We're still having trouble figuring out why, but we're loving all these opportunities to think it over. In this case, we don't know which party contacted which, but either way, it's a match made in heaven: El Guincho, whose debut album, Alegranza, snuck very quietly onto several Top 10 lists at the end of 2008, assembles music that's exotic and delirious. Thanks to a combination of dubby bassline, an ingeniously sequenced police siren, and some magnificent ambient noise, Architecture in Helsinki sound like they're in the jungle, at the beach, and in some mind-meltingly humid hotel lobby all at the same time. Download it, and fly to South America.

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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Higamos Hogamos - "Major Blitzkrieg"

DC Recordings is one of those labels for hardcore music nerds. Name-dropped by everybody from Simian Mobile Disco to Pedro Winter, DC makes music that is out there; from spacey techno and shimmering krautrock to wobbly, weirdo disco, their discography boasts releases with titles like Revenge of the Iron Ferret, The Madness of Moths and, rather cheekily, Coney Island Baby and Let It Bleed. Higamos Hogamos is one of DC's newest signings, and their eponymously titled debut, as you might expect, is also out there. A glam space adventure, Higamos Hogamos pits human pomp against the mystery of the universe, with guitar solos space-strutting through the infinite void. "Major Blitzkrieg" is the album's lead single, and for just the cost of your e-mail address, DC Recordings is giving it away for free. Get it now.

Click here to for the Higamos Hogamos invitation page.

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U.S. Royalty - "Keep It Cool" (Bo Flex Remix)

Back when we interviewed Passion Pit's Ayad Al Adhamy a few months ago, fools were all like, "Who's that? Whyn't you interview Michael for?!" Well, here's the short answer. Ayad is Passion Pit's keyboard and guitar player, and he'll soon be a graduate of the very prestigious Berklee College of Music. The long answer is that Ayad has this newly developed alter ego he uses for remixes, Bo Flex, and you should keep it at the front of your brain. Like his pal Michael, Bo Flex doesn't remix for the dancefloor. Bo Flex remixes around the spirit of the vocals, and here, he turns U.S. Royalty's "Keep It Cool" into an outsized, romantic soarer that floats on some masterfully arranged synthesizers. Remember the name.

Right-click here to download it via Instrumental Analysis.

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Groove Armada - "Pull Up (Crank It Up)" (Diplo Remix)

So, apparently Groove Armada tours with a band. We find this incredibly confusing (the Chemical Brothers don't bring a djembe player with them on the road!), but we can't front: that's a potentially awesome idea . Imagine this track played live, for example: live vocals (and even better: live sampling and manipulation of vocals!), a little synthesizer magic, and that big, thumping carnivale percussion booming and banging across a gigantic stage, lights bursting and pulsing in time to the music.

Admit it: that sounds kind of awesome, doesn't it?

Right-click here to download it via Sheena Beaston.

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Paper Route Gangstaz vs. Animal Collective - "Animals Gettin' Money" (The Hood Internet Mash-up)

This is just unfair. There oughta be a law against the Hood Internet catering to me like this. Not as pure a mash-up as we've seen from ABX and STV SLV, but it still bounces, and we're just about obsessed.

Right-click here to download it via Gorilla vs. Bear.

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Flairs - "Truckers Delight"

Hey kids! Remember "Better Than Prince"? Of course you do! It's one of Jonas & Francois's best videos ever, and starting next week, the song itself will be available on something besides a limited edition 7" single and MP3. The Flairs' debut album, Sweat Symphony, will be released in France on February 16, and you should give it a whiff, if only because it was mixed by Alex Gopher. That, and it has the #6 best song of 2008 on it.

Click here to download it from Mediafire (via Ohhh! Crapp..).

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MGMT - "Electric Feel" (Justice Remix)

Of all the cross graphics we could've chosen, why did we choose this one?

Simple. We wanted something that would match the Grammy. (It's true. Don't believe us? Scroll down to Category 94)

Right-click here to download it via I Hope Your Ears Bleed.

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Katy Perry - "Hot & Cold" (LMFAO Remix)

LMFAO knows that the easy route tends to be the best route. A good remix doesn't need six extra minutes of build-up and breakdowns. A good remix doesn't need five extra chord changes. Sometimes, like with this picture on your left, you just take the artist's best parts and discard the rest.

Okay, maybe you also add some buzzy bass and a funny little rap towards the end too, but basically, you get the idea.

Right-click here to download it via The Culture of Me.

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Hot Chip - "Hold On" (D.I.M. Refix)

Whether you're a fan of D.I.M.'s earlier work or not, be it his super-secretive dark electro-tech ("Sisyphus," "Airbus Baby") or his big-name blog-favorite (his remixes of the Faint and the Presets), you've got to admit that his production chops are impressive. The man definitely kept things loud and scary to build his name up, but it turns out Hamburg's prince of darkness likes disco-house just like the rest of us. How much? Enough to turn Hot Chip's "Hold On" into a never-ending disco-house ascension that lays Joe and Alexis's vocals over an expertly sliced piano loop. This track is the perfect thing to end a set with, and the best part is, D.I.M. and his label are giving it away.

Right-click here to download it via the Boysnoize Records blog.

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Ladyhawke - "Magic" (Cates & dpL Make Magic Bootleg)

Ahh yes. We're starting to think that Pip Brown has kept her songs' stems under very tight wraps. Aside from an unofficial remix of "Paris is Burning" by Cut Copy, we haven't seen much in the way of Ladyhawke remixes out there on teh interwebz. On some level, we have to applaud Pip for holding onto the goods (even if it makes our job a little harder), but maybe even on a whole other level, we have to think this was by design. Playing hard to get makes suitors more creative, and these Cates & dpL folks have shown off a nice bit of imagination here, turning "Magic" into a patient, mysterious tech-house track. Pip's vocals waft across boomping, Dirtybird-y beats like a spirit, always there, but not quite all there, which we think is perfect. After all, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Right-click here to download it via Too Many Sebastians.

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Beni - "My Love Sees You" (Classixx Remix)

The DJ/production duo known as Classixx is already a known commodity on the West Coast, but we bet that by the time summer's over, they'll be drawing crowds all across the country (well, except in Utah). See, Classixx specializes in lush, big-room house - think Lifelike, but more propulsive - and here, on a mix that somehow got left off Beni's Kitsuné single, they turn "My Love Sees You" into a big, melancholy sigher that'll unite every dance music fan in LA, from the Deadmau5 heads to the Bang Gang masses. Sigh with em.

Right-click here to download it via Discodust.

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Dead Pixels - "Words are Poison" (One Man Party and R. Kid Remix)

With all due respect, Dead Pixels is a garden-variety English party band. They play fast, they play tight, their songs are kinda spooky, and we're not convinced that we're ever going to bother you about them again. Unless, of course, their choice of remixers is always this good. For a remix of their debut single, Dead Pixels reached out to One Man Party, who is better known as Steve Slingeneyer, or the drummer in Soulwax, for something brawnier, something manlier, and boy does he deliver. With some help from R. Kid, the One Man Party take on "Words are Poison" is dark and hard, halfway between Rob Zombie and Mr. Oizo. Spooky.

Click here to download it via Mediafire.

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Yuksek - "I Like to Play"

We're sure plenty of you have been wondering what happened to Yuksek. Cuz it's been like, months since he's released a remix or whatever, so like, is he dead? Turns out he was just putting the finishing touches on his debut album, Away From the Sea. This bad boy's got guest work from Sh*t Disco, Chromeo and Amanda Blank on it, and it dropped on January 26 in France. We're not sure what the story is with American distribution (no doubt Steve Aoki is taking a long look at it), but until that gets sorted out, enjoy a reminder of how he got the album deal in the first place: "I Like to Play" is French as f*ck, full of blurting keyboard stabs, punchy, hard drums, grinding bass, and weirdly pitched-up Mac talk vocals. Chouette.

Right-click here to download it via Neonized.

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Hollywood Holt - "Caked Up" (Klever Remix)

GBH Radio host Sam L Jaxxxon's been bumping this since last year, and as that should indicate, its replay value is high. Ever since it surfaced on the Internet, this track had people foaming at the mouth over both Hollywood Holt and Klever (who just so happens to be playing with LA Riots next week), and generally had us convinced that 2008 would be the year that hip-house actually crossed over into the mainstream. Not bad, being a year ahead of schedule.

Right-click here to download it via Above the Fold.

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Schitz Popinov Presents: The Less-than-Perfect Schitz Mix by Dr. † Wrex

All you readers with long memories will recognize the name Schitz Popinov. In addition to being the terribly clever name, Schitz Popinov is one of those blogs that trafficks in hip-hop-flavored electro hotness, and here, the estimable Dr. † Wrex has put together a potent little mini-mix that's hard not to enjoy. Featuring everything from A-Trak and Digitalism to club-friendly remixes of Dr. Dre and House of Pain, this little guy is just the right size for a work-out. Bump bump bump!

Right-click here to download it via the School of Mix.

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Danger - "11h30"

Without a doubt, Danger's best track.

No joke.

Right-click here to download it via Trash Menagerie.

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Lady Sovereign Megamix by Jackbeats

S-O-V must've shoved a Saint Christopher icon up her nose when she was a kid or something. The biggest midget has had the worst luck every time she's gone on tour, whether it's suffering from food poisoning, getting too drunk, or just plain running out of gas, and unfortunately for her, that saga continues: visa troubles are delaying her upcoming North American mini-tour by a week.

This obviously has pissed a lot of people off, and her label, in an effort to calm us all down, got UK vet Jackbeats to whip up a megamix for distribution. Comprised of both old hits and new, over instrumentals both big and small, this is Universal's way of saying sorry.

Click here to download it from yousendit.

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Kylie Minogue - "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" (Soulwax Kyuss Mix)

So, next Friday we have the One Man Party again. Sure, Danger's co-headlining this Webster Hall gig, but Steve Slingeneyer, Soulwax's drummer, gets our motor revving in a way that we sometimes have trouble explaining. His brute force makes that band go, and to celebrate it, we're offering you a golden oldie (well, an oldie by Internet standards anyway): Kylie Minogue's chorus was one of the most addictive things we'd ever heard in 2002, and the Dewaele brothers decided to see just how far that addiction could go with this remix. They stacked Kyuss's knuckle-dragging riffs onto Kylie's little voice, and surprise surprise, it held up.

Friday, February 6: get ready to rock.

Click here to download it from zShare (via Sundtrak)

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Peter, Björn and John - "Nothing to Worry About"

Gotta admit, we weren't exactly thrilled with "Lay It Down." We thought it reached for humor that wasn't there, and we also found the hook fairly underwhelming. But we knew "Nothing to Worry About" was going to be better before we even heard it. Why? Because it premiered on Kanye West's blog, that's why! There's no way Kanye would besmirch his good name by posting some watery indie rock mess on there. And even though he might not be that much of a speller, the man's on point about one thing: "DRUMS ARE CRAZY."

Click here to download it from zShare (via Kanyeuniversecity)

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The Presets - "This Boy's in Love" (Kevin Saunderson Remix)

Kevin Saunderson is one of those producers who can make familiar musical elements sound like they've dropped down from outer space. That talent helped turn him into one of the founding fathers of techno music, and this Friday at Webster Hall, you'll be able to hear it applied to both the past and present. Here, on a remix commissioned by Scion A/V, Saunderson turns the Presets' "This Boy's in Love" into a desolate, insomniac runaway anthem; with the help of some yawning bass and jittery hi-hats, Saunderson transforms the song's bridge into a defiant promise, full of the same restless determination that techno still embodies.

Right-click here to download it via Syntheticrocks.

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Anoraak - "Endless Summer"

it's finally here. We try not to toot our own horns too much, but we're pretty pleased with ourselves here. The New York City premiere for the Valerie collective? That kind of thing only happens once in a blue moon, and we think it's auspicious that it's our first big show of 2009. This is one in a series of morsels we're hoping whets your appetites for the big show this Friday, a track that shares its name with Anoraak's label, Endless Summer Recordings.

Awesome.

Right-click here to download it from box.net (via Soquitcherbitchen).

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Oh Snap!!! - "I'm Too Fat to Be a Hipster" (Mightyfools Remix)

Like most Oh Snap!!! tracks, "I'm Too Fat to be a Hipster" is definitely half joke, half song. This is rarely a winning balance (you usually want more of an emphasis in either direction), but it certainly makes them fantastic remix fodder. Over here, Mightyfools brings a bassline that'll make anybody lose weight. Lawls and sweat all around.

Click here to download it via You, Me and Everyone.

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Frankie Knuckles vs. Animal Collective - "Your Love, My Girls" (Mashup)

To celebrate the release of the first great album of 2009, Merriweather Post Pavilion, we're hooking you up with an ingenious mash-up of two wonderful songs. To hear some tell it, the former ("Your Love") served as an influence for the latter ("My Girls"), and while we're going to take that with a grain of salt, we can't deny that they fit together very nicely. That cycling arpeggio represents two very different kinds of love, depending on who's doing the singing, and even if this doesn't quite work on the dancefloor, it absolutely does both songs proud.

Click here to download it via Going Other Places.

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33Hz - "Sentinel of Love" (OrtzRoka Remix)

Man, that double 33Hz double A-side is so close we can taste it; "I Feel Alive/Sentinel of Love" is out this coming Tuesday on Foolhouse, the Fluokids' record label. We're already going to be giving away a few copies at the Valerie showcase that Friday, but we couldn't resist passing this little extra on to you just before the weekend. Up-and-coming band OrtzRoka has turned "Sentinel of Love" into a sublime New Wave roller, full of heavenly synth harmonies, nervous hi-hats, and a thick Italo bassline that we could ride all night. One more reason that January 20th can't come fast enough.

Right-click here to download (via welikeit.indie)

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Adrian Lux - "Strawberry" (Rapclash Remix featuring Rye Rye, Lorentz, M. Sakarias & Alexis Weak)

If you'd told us two summers ago that Rye Rye, that little 16-year-old sprite who made her bones on Blaqstarr's "Shake it to the Ground" was going to become an internationally known hip-house rapper, we would have called you crazy. The girl who devoted more of her Myspace to prom pictures than flyers and ads for upcoming gigs? The one who danced in her own videos and invited her mom to shows? C'mon.

Well, here she is, bouncing over one of 2008's biggest arpeggios, trying to catch a glimpse of the life that's flown past since that first track dropped. "Can you hear me, home? I'm calling," goes her chorus, and we hope they do. Gorgeous and addictive.

Click here to download it via the Docking Station.

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Russ Chimes - "She's Got the Heat"

Russ Chimes is taking part in this Valerie showcase we've got lined up for January 23, and we couldn't be happier. See, where Anoraak and College all work the heartbreak angle, Russ is the one who mashes down on the gas and speeds things up. Russ's tracks are the ones that evoke the car chases, the climactic fights to the finish, and the final countdowns to judgment, success, or failure.

Incredibly, Russ hasn't released anything formally yet, so are happy to pass this bright, bouncy, glossy piece of action on to you for free. Get ready.

Click here to download it through zShare (via F*$% You On Friday).

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Home Video - It Will Be Okay EP

Most people didn't hear Home Video's debut album, No Certain Night or Morning, as an indie rock harbinger of sounds to come. Even though their synth-chilled melancholia sounded like music from Mars back in 2006 to most people, we knew the group would be a force to be reckoned with.

And with that sound of theirs poised to rule over these colder months, the band decided to remind us they're still better than most , if not all, of the newjacks. On It Will Be Okay, an EP the band's giving away for free on their website, the band hangs Thom Yorke-esque vocal melodies over a driving mix of live and programmed drums, chilled, shining synthesizers, and melancholy basslines. Four songs that will keep your lonely embers warm even as temperatures drop into the single digits.

Click here to download it homevideo.fm.

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Miike Snow - "Animal" (Crookers Remix)

We know what you're thinking: this is going to be another one of those noisy, grinding, merciless Crookers remixes that leaves you feeling pulverized, isn't it?

Nope. It's not. Not only is this the exact opposite of what Phra and Bot have built their reputations on, it's also one of this young new year's most pleasant surprises. We have no idea who or what Miike Snow is all about, but this Crookers mix sounds like some lost collaboration between Panda Bear and Radiocl*t, with bouncy synth bass, tabla samples, and distant 8-bit collapses buoying upbeat vocals. The song's refrain, "I'm still an animal," will please all the nu primitives who spent the last two years living on Animal Collective and Yeasayer, and if this is at all indicative of things to come for either Crookers or Miike Snow, then they're going to have one hell of a year.

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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Santogold featuring Three 6 Mafia & Project Pat - "Shuvit"

One of the things we look forward to at the end of every year is the predictions. We were too busy to write ours own a few weeks ago, and we figure we should make it up to you with MP3s. See, we were going to write something about the hipster rappers finally making that crossover, and it seems like Mad Decent's going to have a lot to do with it. The Paper Route Gangstaz tape finally came out in December, and this, an "exclusive" track from the label's blog, shows Santi offering up arguably her best verses to the Oscar winners. Disco D must be rolling over in his grave.

Click here to download it the Mad Decent blog.

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Anoraak's No Love Lost Records Mixtape

It seems like the Valerie collective made their move at just the right time. Summer had just started to end, people had to start packing up their beach chairs and getting ready for school, and out of nowhere, in come these soft synth pads and these pretty arpeggios and an 80's teen movie sensibility. Valerie's artists were offering the sound of a lost summer, something more melancholy than euphoric, and here, in an installment for No Love Lost Records's mix series, Anoraak pushes that Valerie brand hard. At 70 minutes, it's a journey, but with sunlight at a premium, these things have a way of coming in handy.

Click here to download it the Tripwire.

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Lifelike vs. Morgan Page - "The Electric Road" (Morgan Page Bootleg)

Being super-duper cool has its drawbacks, we'll admit. Like, see, because we're always at the next-level underground-once-in-a-lifetime at night, we'd never even heard this song, even though it was apparently huge in like New Jersey or whatever until a few minutes ago. But we were rereading that interview we did with Lifelike and listening to "So Electric," one of our favorite Lifelike tracks of all time, and thinking about how exciting it would be if he did get to work with some pop acts.

How exciting, exactly? Put it this way: we'd listen to KTU for daaaaaaaays if they played stuff like this, supercool reputation be damned.

Click here to download it Stoney Roads.

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Pase Rock - "Get Money Kids" (Nacho Lovers' Walk Remix)

The Nacho Lovers are right there. This Canadian duo's worked with everybody from Thunderheist to Steve Aoki, they've released 12"s on Fool's Gold. they just need something to get them over the hump...something with jaunty hi-hats...and an exuberant, sampled whoop! And half a conga break! Yes!

They needed this to get them over the hump. And so do you .

Click here to download it RCRD LBL.

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Digitalism - "Apollo-Gize" (Fred Falke Edit)

Short and sweet: some slap bass, bright synth chords, and vocals that sound like they're going to float away before they can get to the end of their verses.

Click here to download it via Condemned to Rock 'n' Roll.

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Lonely Island - "J*zz In My Pants" (Cousin Cole House Mix)

Cousin Cole makes this sound like a super rare Pet Shop Boys mix.

Well, kind of.

Click here to download it via Panda Toes.

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Crookers and Boy 8-Bit - "The Crow" (Malente Re-Edit)

Too good to be true: "The Crow" is Boy 8-Bit and Crookers take on Proxy's horror show "The Raven." We put the Crookers name on here first to get your attention, but it sounds like Diplo's Boy is in the driver's seat here: spooky arpeggios and constant mutation dominate this one. Even though there's something dark and ugly about what's going on, this is too smart to be Phra and Bot's idea.

Still: too good.

Click here to download it via BRRRLN.

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Franz Ferdinand - "Ulysses" (Mickey Moonlight Remix)

Erol Alkan's "reanimation" of this track has been getting a lot of attention since it leaked last week. And on the surface, that makes sense: the lead track off the super-duper-highly-anticipated (and with good reason!) Tonight: Franz Ferdinand remixed by one of the big-timers? Sure. But this version, by the lesser known Mickey Moonlight, takes Erol's down to chinatown. Or, put in terms the LOL Cats crowd can understand:

More remixs w/ likembe plz.

K thx bai.

Click here to download it via Asian Dan.

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Kanye West - "Love Lockdown" (Flying Lotus Remix)

In an interview we did with him at the beginning of this year, the Kills' Jamie Hince said he thinks 98% of remixes are total crap. And anyone who rummages around on blogs as much as we do knows that he's right. Most aim to make the parent material club-functional, and an alarmingly small number of them succeed. Not surprisingly, the failure rate is higher still for artists trying to transform the song into something else.

This, however, constitutes the cream, that other two percent. Flying Lotus's Los Angeles, a smoky, swirling swoon of beats, came thiiiiiiiis close to making our Top Ten Albums list, and he turns Kanye's "Love Lockdown" into a mysterious, melancholy track full of surprises. Not quite dubstep, not quite dancehall, not quite hip-hop, and far more than all three, it's what a remix should be

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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Architecture in Helsinki - "That Beep" (Radioclit French Mix)

This is one of those matches made in music nerd heaven: Radioclit is on a free and easy world music tip, Architecture in Helsinki is cute, silly, and down for whatever. Add it all up, and we think the two of them should hammer out some kind of agreement where the two of them remix one another for the rest of their careers. Forever and ever and ever!

Click here to download it via Pasta Primavera.

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MGMT - "Kids" (Pet Shop Boys' Abstrakt Mix)

This, apparently, is the kind of stuff you get when you're signed to a major. Or, at least, the kind of thing you get when your debut album gets put on a gajabajillion Best of 2008 lists. (One or the other...) Anyway, "Kids" has one of those hooks that's so simple that it could've come from any time, or any place, and here, one of the best duos to ever do it take it back to the mid-90's, turning the track into a mysterious and sexy float on a tide of synthesizers.

Plus, it's not a rickroll. Merry Christmas!

Click here to download it via Ohhh! Crap.

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N.A.S.A. - "Money" (The Count of Monte Cristal Remix)

This is getting ridiculous. How deep does N.A.S.A. go? This is like one of those shadowy super-organizations that you read about in books or see in the movies. At this point, we wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clive Davis, Quincy Jones and LA Reid are executive producing this record, or that Jerry Wexler isn't really dead, and that he's actually masterminded this entire project from an alternate dimension that you can only enter via a secret stone portal.

Oh yeah, the remix. It bangs. All those guests so lovingly assembled for the original make for incredible snippets (check David Byrne sounding like some forgotten crooner that Radio Slave might've sampled sometime in the past year), the hi-hats are white-hot, and the bass is sidechained to perfection.

Beware. N.A.S.A.'s watching.

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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Heroes of the Dancefloor - "Same Scandal" (Sam Dillon Remix)

One of the great things about New York is its ability to bring artists together, and Heroes of the Dancefloor is one of those unlikely all-star teams that probably wouldn't have happened anywhere else. Comprised of Mamazu, Nick Chacona, Dan Moore (a keyboardist who's worked with everyone from Roni Size to Roy Ayers), Gary Alesbrook (trumpet player for the Scissor Sisters), and Alex Hutchings, a highly decorated jazz guitarist, the Heroes recently released an album of jazzy, classy house, with some beautiful ballads thrown in for good measure, on INgrooves.

But more importantly, the Heroes have two silent, non-musical partners: PIcture the Homeless and Coalition for the Homeless, who will receive proceeds from the Heroes' sales and put it toward helping out the neediest during the coldest time of the year. The subtext of all these posts is that we're hoping you'll buy the music we feature, and this time we're not going to leave it unsaid. Buy a track, buy the album, make a donation. Happy holidays.

Right-click here to download it via Giant Step, and buy music from Heroes of the Dancefloor:

Buy the remixes here
Buy the singles here
Buy the album here

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Cut Copy - "Far Away" (Bag Raiders Remix)

As usual, Australia laps the competition. The Bag Raiders turn one of Cut Copy's weakest tracks (all right, we said it) into an 80's teen movie highlight reel, with MIDI horns, an arpeggio built out of guitar picking, and big fun synths, and in doing so pretty much embarrass all this track's other would-be remixers out there. Incredibly, this wasn't even selected for the Far Away Remixes EP that Modular put out, but hey - people are spoiled down under.

Click here to download it via Deckhead.

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Sally Shapiro - "Anorak Christmas" (Anoraak's X-Mas Remix)

This just isn't fair. We're still obsessed with this Nixon cover that Sally Shapiro released back in 2006, and we've always said that the only thing standing in Anoraak's way is songwriting. But here, they've got a strong melody, great singing, and they just tee off on both of them. Your traditional holiday playlist just got five minutes longer.

Click here to download it via Valerie.

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Koko Dozo - "Spaceman"

If you read Paper Magazine, or watch The L Word, you might have noticed that Koko Dozo is finally getting some notice around here. We're sure our review had plenty to do with it, but this might also have something to do with it. "Spaceman" is a bumping, effects-filled immigrants' anthem that Amy Douglas goes crazy over. And by crazy, we mean cuh-huh-huh-huh-raaaaaaaayyyayayayayaay-ZAYYYYYYYYUuuuuhhh. With apologies to Rubio and Polarity, this is Amy's track. You just worked on it.

Right-click here to download it.

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Midnight Star - "Midas Touch" (CFCF Remix)

Chromeo fans, take note: for all our complaining about the subpar electrofunk that started bubbling up at summer's end, producers are starting to get it right. And by that, we mean they've gone back to stealing; CFCF doesn't do much to this, the debut single by Kentucky's Midnight Star, a funk band that enjoyed a pretty solid career in the '70's. But there's nothing wrong with getting the hell out of the way of a fine bassline.

Click here to download it via Palms Out.

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X & Hell - "My Fkn' Hat"

We have no idea who X & Hell is, but we know that Shazam, that boy wonder from Perth, produced it. Write it down: he's going to be everybody's favorite next year. Singers/rappers/future superstars: book this kid in the studio while you still can.

Click here to download it via blouse.

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N.A.S.A. featuring Kanye West, Lykke Li and Santogold - "Gifted" (snippet)

Wow. Yesterday, we wondered whether N.A.S.A., that South American pair of producers, hadn't taken quite a big risk by throwing all those guests together on "Money," a track they recently did a video for. Turns out that's really just their steez. God knows what their secret is, but in addition to "Money" and "Gifted," which we figure is going to be just enormous, they've recorded tracks featuring contributions by....wait for it...Ol' Dirty Bastard (before he died), Fatlip, Gift of Gab, Chali 2Na, Karen O, David Byrne, Tom Waits, and Kool Keith. The world's not ready for this. They can't be.

Click here to download it via Discobelle.

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Tussle - "Night of the Hunter"

Tussle committed the cardinal sin of releasing an awesome album in August, a time of the year that press people normally reserve for things like getting ready for school and checking into rehab. And so, despite Tussle's status as elder statesmen in a dance-rock scene that's going to be hotter-than-hot next year (San Francisco!!!!), people are going to see Cream Cuts, that aforementioned album of driving, rickety, blissed out jams, on a bunch of Best of 2008 lists and go, "Who?!"

Awesome bands: Don't release albums in August!

Click here to download it via 5 Acts.

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The Phenomenal Handclap Band - "15 to 20"

Oh man. If this keeps up, we're going to have a Battle of the New York Disco Bands. We could get Patrick Adams or the Crown Heights Affair to judge it.

(YESSSSSSSS!!!!)

Click here to download it via 5 Acts.

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Jaunt - "Travelling"

Electronic music producers are exceedingly mindful of their brands. So when you pick a label, you're basically trying to find the most like-minded (or like-sounded) people and counting on strength in numbers. We bring all this up because now, rather than wasting all this time and space explaining Jaunt to you, we can just bust this little nugget out: these guys are on the same label as Lifelike.

Click here to download it via The (Disco) Workout.

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Jesse Rose featuring Hot Chip - "Forget My Name"

Over ten minutes of Joe Goddard and Alexis Taylor talking silly nonsense over a slinking, engrossing Jesse Rose beat? We bet this sounds like heaven on wax, and we can't wait: this comes out on December 15, and we get the feeling this track gets an entire side. This is also part of an upcoming full-length album due out on Dubsided, and if you don't think that excites the living daylights out of us, well, then....we're very sorry. For you.

Click here to stream it via imeem.

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The Bumblebeez - "Zulu" (Bang Gang & Knife Machine Remix)

It's holiday time, y'all! The giving season, and alla that. Normally people get sick of hearing stuff like that, but the Bumblebeez take it serious. Prince Umberto and his super-weird pals are giving away a track a day for the entire month of December, and people who know this band know that that could mean pretty much anything. Sleazy, slurred guitar rock? Done. Blooping synth mystery? Done. Super-exclusive bird-call-tastic dub-ball-fantasy remixes? Oh yeah. Best idea ever.

Click here to download it via Modular Records.

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Liam & Me - "Say It Out Loud"

Liam & Me are from Philadelphia, and nobody tells them what to do.

Right-click here to download it.

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The Phantom's Revenge - "I Can't Lose"

Ever wondered what the Pointer Sisters' "If You Dare" would sound like if it got looped, chopped,and filtered into a six minute piece of French touch? The Phantom's Revenge knows; this French young'in turns five seconds of Richard Perry's production and those awesome voices into a big-time whoomper.

Click here to download it via Disco Dust.

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Ray Parker, Jr. -"Ghostbusters Theme" (Don Rimini Remix)

I ain't 'fraid-a no ghost!

Click here to download it via Totally Twitterpated.

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Chromeo - "Needy Girl" (Lifelike Remix)

Wow. It's finally happening. As this site's regulars will recall, we've been dreaming dreamy dreams about Lifelike for two years. Next Friday, he's finally coming here, and we couldn't be happier. We wish he'd just hurry up and get here already. But in the meantime, enjoy this track he did for the deluxe edition of Chromeo's Fancy Footwork, which turns one of She's In Control's highlights into a dripping, throbbing, aching love fest. The 12th can't get here fast enough.

Click here to download it via Chrome Music.

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Chester French - "She Loves Everybody"

America is supposed to be some kind of anti-intellectual country, and in some ways, maybe it is. But when it comes to pop music, we welcome smarty-pantses with open arms: Dan Wilson (of Semisonic) and Rivers Cuomo (of Weezer), arguably two of the 90's most successful rock/pop men, both went to Harvard, and there isn't enough room here to list all the musical heroes who have masters degrees hanging on their walls. But getting back to the Crimson for a second, both Cuomo and Wilson mastered pop's greatest challenge, writing songs that spoke in many different tones to many different people. And now Chester French, a duo signed to Pharrell's Star Trak label, continues that proud tradition. "She Loves Everybody" is a tale of Girl Trouble with sly guitar tricks, confident hooks, and something for every frustrated lover in the world. Get educated.

Right-click here to download it via Giant Step.

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Twisted Wires - "Another Night at the Raw Deal"

Remember how crazy everybody was going over the Italians Do It Better label last year? To be honest, we never quite understood it. Where blogs and magazines alike all seemed to use words like "aching" and "touching," to us it felt more depressing. It was too strained, too minimal, and it felt like music for the apocalypse. So now that the economy has gone to shit and the Hope is still almost two months away, it makes sense that a new round of singles is on the way. And "Another Night at the Raw Deal," by a mysterious Texas outfit known as Twisted Wires, is absolutely music for the apocalypse. It maintains the sonic aesthetic that Johnny Jewel conjured through his label's first releases, but it ups the musicianship more than a tad; it sounds like music that would warm up a small town discotheque after a nuclear apocalypse, and it will keep you up at night.

Click here to download it via As Restless As We Are.

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Arnaud Rebotini - Music Components Minimix

As some of you may recall, we really, really didn't like the last Black Strobe record. It really upset us - pissed us off, almost - that Arnaud Rebotini had traded in those incredible, dread-inducing techno tricks for ham-fisted false metal theatrics, and frankly we were wondering if we ought to continue to keep him on our radar. It turns out we were stupid to doubt him at all: Rebotini's upcoming EP, Music Components, is going to make Black Strobe fans excited. Like, "I just got 'Me and Madonna' on vinyl last week and I can't stop talking about it" excited. We'd explain, but the minimix will do the talking just fine.

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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Cut Copy - "Far Away" (Damn Arms Remix)

You want your remixers to be hungry. If they're in all kinds of demand, who knows what kind of effort you're going to get out of them? They might throw the damn thing together while a pair of (possibly) underage twins is tweaking their knobs in the back of a tour bus. No, no: what you want is a band that's gotten a few smallish blips on international blog radar, a group that needs their version to get accepted because it might be the difference between people remembering their name in 2009 and forgetting it. Pick that group, because when you pick that group, you get big, bright poly-disco, full of MIDI strings, old-school synthesizers, and that familiar rush that makes disco go. Yeah. You want that.

Click here to download it via Big Stereo.

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Mr. Oizo featuring Uffie - "Steroids" (Dog Tags Re-Edit)

Le nouveau Oizo est là.

Click here to download it via Big Stereo.

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Wild Rumpus - "Purple Somersault" (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)

With all due respect to Laidback Luke and Studio and Erol Alkan, we think that a Prins Thomas Diskomiks is generally the best remix treatment a rock song can ask for. And in this case, the Prins is working with a stacked deck: Wild Rumpus, a duo comprised of DJ Cosmo and former Captain Beefheart collaborator Gary Lucas, makes stuff that's both funky and rootsy. Here, on "Purple Somersault," Thomas has made something that's both psychedelic and funkadelic...so check it out.

Click here to download it via Anthem Magazine.

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Lykke Li - "Little Bit" (Drake Remix)

Canadian readers will probably recognize the remix name, but you can bet they won't admit it. Drake's a rapper/hip-popper/ladies' man from Toronto, and he's probably gonna be on more than a few hooks near you in 2009, but he's still got free time on his hands these days, and he's turned Lykke Li's "Little Bit" into a duet. And even though autotuners are starting to drive me crazy, Drake uses his just judiciously enough to make me love this a little bit.

Click here to download it via OnSmash.

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Justice - "Tthhee Ppaarrttyy" (Live)

IF: Justice is way better live than on CD,
THEN: This Coachella rip of the worst track they've ever released will be awesome.
FACT: This track is awesome.
THEREFORE: Justice is way better live.

Click here to download it via the Indie Music Speaker.

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Chromeo - "100%" (Nacho Lovers' B-Live Pemberton Mix)

Man, those Bacardi folks's iight. We've been fiending for a remix of "100%" since Fancy Footwork came out last summer, and frankly, given all the time that'd passed, we figured that we'd missed out, that Dave and P had pressed up like 200 white labels and nobody was telling nobody about it. But instead, Bacardi's music people stepped it up and are giving remixes away for free. Treasure Fingers put one together that's only so-so, but the Nacho Lover entry comes correct by importing that slow-jam vibe to the dancefloor.

Click here to download it via the Vice Records blog.

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Foals - "Olympic Airways" (Ewan Pearson Remix)

If someone can explain why nobody's bothered to write a magazine feature/profile about Ewan Pearson, we'd love to hear them do it. Let's just rattle off a few things the man has done in the last year: produced the best tracks on M83's Saturdays = Youth, remixed Kelley Polar, Supermayer, Hot Chip, Mademoiselle Caro, and....oh yeah, Foals, a band that has not exactly remixed well. But Pearson makes it sound like a walk in the park here, with just the right synth ambience surrounding Andrew Mears's vocals.

Click here to download it via Hyperbole.

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Blänk featuring Young Ivy - "Shirt Off"

You guys all know we're usually pretty good about avoiding cheesy stuff, right? We're all about hooking you up with the finer things, but sometimes you need something that's just silly and fun. And Blänk, a Swedish duo armed with a fun guest vocalist, has provided it: "Shirt Off," with its super-bright synths, simple house beat, and that unexpectedly real (or at least sampled from a real source) bass guitar, is a house anthem waiting to happen, and you might as well love it for what it is, because you're going to be hearing it out. A lot.

Click here to download it via Palms Out Sounds.

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Dances With White Girls - "Everyone's Got to Make a Living"

When DJs produce music of their own, they have to make a tough decision. On the one hand, there's the urge to make something that will touch people, something that will have an effect even after the pills have worn off and the house lights come on. And on the other, you want to make something you can bring with you in your record bag or on your hard drive. On New Crack Swing, the debut EP by Dances With White Girls, the dude known to his friends as Frog went the extra mile and did both. Using desolate piano chords, hardscrabble static-y pads, mysterious arpeggios, and a raspy vocal sample, "Everyone's Got to Make a Living" feeds off dance music's energy and while evoking its loneliness, and it does so with the shapeshifting fluidity understood best by dance music's lifers. This album's been a long time coming, and it's come out just right.

Right-click here to download it.

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Kicksville - "Phatty"

Kicksville is the future, no matter how you look at it. A collective presided over by Mayor Mike Stehr and Commissioner Conrad St. Clair, they've embarked on a release project called Season One, in which the group releases a digital single every week for thirteen straight weeks. The first episode, "Phatty," is electronica that resurrects the excitement that swirled around that genre in the 90's, with momentum that drives straight ahead into the ominousness and mystery of the chords. Stay tuned.

Click here to stream it via imeem.

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Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris - "Dance Wiv Me" (Shazam Remix)

Some people want remixes to be like good covers, where the original song gets turned inside out and made it into something totally new. But we think the superior remix always improves on the original's spirit, and Shazam, a remixer/producer from Perth who's getting harder and harder to ignore, does that perfectly here. Dizzee Rascal's "Dance Wiv Me" might be light-hearted, but deep down, it means its title, and Shazam's production really, really means it: the original bassline gets some electrofunk wriggle added to it, and the arpeggios and synths are just spot-on. Perfect, danceable pop magic. Get it.

Click here to download it via Disco Dust.

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High-Powered Boys vs. Rye Rye - "Hoes Get Down and Shake It" (John Bourke Mashup)

Barebones hip-house, yes!

Right-click here to download it.

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Housse de Racket - "Oh Yeah!" (Tepr Remix)

Out of all the DJ/producers doing it out of France right now, Tepr might be the best. And before you have a hissy fit about that statement, hear us out: aside from DJ Mehdi, how many Ed Banger/Institubes/Ekler'o'shock fiends display the same range that this kid does? Housse de Racket's "Oh Yeah!" is a pop-tastic guitar and drums song, but by the time Tepr's done with it, the track's got a spring-loaded, MTV-ready hip-pop beat that the dude oughta consider shopping to Rihanna. And we can guarantee that most of the competition would fall on its fluorescent-colored asses trying to do something like this.

Click here to download it via the Fast Life.

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Tigercity - "Are You Sensation" (VHS or Beta Remix)

Brooklyn's Tigercity push that soft synth 80's mania, and for the most part, they're still figuring out that nice arpeggios and arrangements aren't the whole story. Luckily, that's where VHS or Beta come in. The longtime vets add some extra production of their own, and then arrange "Are You Sensation" to sound like an early Madonna mastermix.

Click here to download it via brugo.

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Fischerspooner - "Danse en France" (D.I.M. Remix)

What's that, you say? This reminds you a little bit of "Is You"? That track that fired D.I.M. into the dance world's consciousness with all the subtlety of a howitzer? The track that dozens of DJs had on their year-end Best Of 2007 lists because of its superior pacing and inimitably disgusting basslines? The one that still gets people dancing that extra little bit harder, even a whole year later? That track?

Yeah. This sounds kinda like that.

Click here to download it via brugo.

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Franz Ferdinand - "The Fallen" (Justice Remix)

In an interview we read not too long ago, Gaspard and Xavier mentioned that they are probably going to stop doing remixes. We assume they're men of their word, and that this was already in the can when they'd done the interview, and so even though we're sad they're not going to bother with remixes anymore, this isn't a bad note to close on. They finally decided to ditch the disco slap bass, and instead upgraded to a snarling, sharply truncated bass sample that works well with the nervous drums and jabbering edits of Alex Kapranos's voice. Is this a sign? Stay tuned.

Click here to download it via the Jacuzzi Killers.

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Tittsworth featuring Kid Sister & Pase Rock - "WTF" (DJ Wool Remix)

Plant Music brings the music to the people! As we've mentioned before, "WTF" is the runaway highlight of Tittsworth's debut Twelve Steps, and the good people at Plant want you to know. This time, we're bringing you a quirky take from the recently departed DJ Wool....Calm down, calm down; he didn't die, he moved to Berlin, and it sounds like it's done him good. Here, in a bouncy mix of quasi-8-bit blips and a melody that sounds more than a little inspired by Orbital's classic, "Chime," Kid Sis and Pasey Pase's verses are pure fun. It's an unexpected combination, but it's an inspired one, too.

Click here to download it via D Squared.

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Lykke Li - "I'm Good, I'm Gone" (Fred Falke Remix)

Lykke Li is harder to remix than you might expect. In spite of the strong hooks and Bjorn Yttling's clever instrumentation, Li's paper-thin voice doesn't always hold up in the face of normal club instrumentation. Basically, you need to pair her vocals with the right people: think disJokke, the Loving Hand (well, sort of...that was kinda busy, for our tastes) and absolutely, positively, above-all-else, think of Fred Falke. Falke's music brought ecstasy back to clubs (both literally and, uh, more literally), and here, he lends one of Li's best tracks some ghostly whirs, a soulful organ loop, and those synths that make nights into the most beautiful blurs.

Click here to download it via Going Other Places.

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The BPA feat. Emmy the Great - "Seattle" (Crazy P Remix)

When Fatboy Slim says, "Remix," that makes most people pull out all the stops. In this case, Crazy P (the P is for "Penis") cuts Emmy the Great's vocals up, turning her voice into a metronomic tic, a breathy sigh, and a back-up vocal. This painstakingly assembled trio binds together three very different (and very sexy) disco-house beats that slyly meld past and present together. It's a great showcase for this underappreciated duo's talents, who are really superior when they're at their best. But then, when Norman Cook calls you, you better be.

Click here to download it via the Dancing Panda.

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Passion Pit - "Sleepyhead"

We might be getting ahead of ourselves, but doesn't Passion Pit's full-length debut have to be considered one of 2009's most exciting prospects? Think about it: the guy's debut EP, Chunk of Change, is this bright and beautiful mix of homemade mess and slick dessert of aural textures, and the dude made it as a Valentine's Day gift for his girlfriend! And consider this: "Sleepyhead," which some people think of as the EP's standout (personally, we're partial to "Smile Upon Me," but we're going to make you buy it to see what we mean), was the only one he made special for this new upcoming record.

Like we said: something worth looking forward to.

Click here to download it via chromewaves.

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DJ Andy Webb (Disco Delicious) - Mix For GBH Radio

Disco Delicious is easily one of our favorite dance music blogs in the world. It's run/curated by an Australian DJ named Andy Webb, and we've been admiring his recommendations and posts for years. It took us a while to screw up the courage to ask him to make a mix for us, and we were pretty sure dude would say no, but amazingly, he obliged. Andy claims he just dashed this thing off, with some tunes he's currently loving. And if that's true, then the dude's a helluva DJ.

Click here to download it via a superspecialsecretdownloadpage.

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Melanie Fiona - "Give It to Me Right"

Melanie Fiona is a lot of things. She's from L.A. She's from Toronto. She's sultry. She's fun. She's sexy. She can actually sing (!!!). And here, on a track that lifts its back beat the Zombies' "Time of the Season," she shows off her many attributes. Get here first.

Right-click here to download it

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Kid Sister - "Get Fresh"

Errbody get out of the way of fall's first hot new single!! It kind of makes sense that, a full year after XXXChange put this girl on the map with "Control," he and Kid Sis's beau would produce something that might make her a superstar. Instead of trying to make Kid Sister's verses fit between house and techno's punches, XXX and Trizzy made a trunk-rattler out of techno's keyboards, flipping ZZT and a synth that sounds like it belongs to William Orbit. "Get Fresh" might suggest that Dream Date is going to be a little schizophrenic, but if the rest is this good, nobody's going to care.

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL

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DJ Mehdi - "Pocket Piano" (Joakim Remix)

DJ Mehdi's "Pocket Piano" obviously provides solid stems, but Joakim's outdone himself here. All manner of high-flown 70's film score drama, bizarre breakdowns, and multiple strains of early dance music vying for your attention. Next level.

Click here to download it via 20jazzfunkgreats.

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T*ttsworth featuring Kid Sister & Pase Rock - "WTF" (Nadastrom's On Drugs Remix)

Wow. A few weeks ago, we asked the people at Plant Music for permission to blog this baby out, and they said no. Which, frankly, didn't surprise us. This remix is about 6000% better than the original, with Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom taking those very different a cappellas and giving them very different treatments. It probably would've come out kinda schizophrenic in the hands of lesser DJs, but instead this just sounds like that night you bought those pills without really asking what they were and you wound up going to five or six different clubs with that guy Francisco, who may or may not have borrowed your watch, and if you could only find your phone, you'd definitely send him a text message about it, but...

Click here to download it via yousendit (andale!), and click here to buy it from Beatport.

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Act Yo Age - "The Flash" (Shir Khan's Powerhouse Dub)

As the founder and head of Exploited! Records, Shir Khan's been pushing some seriously continental ghetto style for the past couple of years. Exploited!'s releases have included everything from b-more and filthy hip-hop mash-ups to Chicago nastiness to wonky, fucked up techno (all with dangerously stylish cover art, no less), so it makes perfect sense that this (unofficial) remix includes all of that.

Click here to download it via Exploited! Records.

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DJ Falcon - "Honeymoon"

Genius is a funny thing sometimes. Hello My Name is DJ Falcon, the best EP Thomas Bangalter's label, Roule, ever pressed, is required listening for French touch enthusiasts. And this overwhelmingly soulful track, which became one of "Digital Love"'s unsung highlights (you'll see what we mean), is probably that EP's best track. But for reasons that continue to baffle us, Falcon and Bangalter opted to leave that digital feedback in as a break, thereby making it an unbearable pain in the ass for DJs everywhere, and leaving it to us to educate...

"Cuz it's SO!..."

Click here to download it via Coco Girlz.

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Lemonade - "Big Weekend" (Hot Pink Delorean Remix)

Lemonade is on the up-and-up. Their self-titled debut album has everything from old, funky synthesizers to wobbly, wanton Arabian vocal melodies, and thanks to its mix of programmed and live drums, it's meant to be danced to all through the night. They're a sight to behold (the lower the venue's ceiling, the better), but this is more of an end of the night jam right here; Hot Pink Delorean hijacks the album's most straightforward vocals and puts them in an airy, blissful expanse where you can raise your hands towards the heavens. And as the trance-y drums and canned strings swell and build, you'll think you can actually reach them.

Click here to download it via Alpha Pup.

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MIT - "Goodbook"

As you've probably noticed, percussion's come into vogue in the last few years, practically ("More cowbell!") to the point of self-parody. This has meant a lot of awkward tambourine-shaking and klave clipping, but to a band like MIT, it just means using one extra rhythmic element as a weapon. This track will run you over if you play it too loud, which we obviously recommend.

Right-click here to download it.

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The Presets - "Kicking and Screaming" (The Bang Gang Deejays' E is for Edit)

We can't believe we forgot about this, but D is for Disco, E is for Dancing comes out this week! We're psyched over here, not least because Light Sound Dance was one of our favorites of last year. We feel like there's a really good chance they're going to come over here for a DJ tour. It just feels like it's going to happen, y'know?

We'd write about how good a remix this is, but you're going to download this no matter what, so don't let us keep you.

Click here to download it via Modular.

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Kap10Kurt - "Mission Complete" (Moulinex Remix)

This is one of those things where the doctor orders something, and then the patient gets it, and then onlookers can look on (or in this case, listen in) and say to whoever's around: "Well that was just what the doctor ordered." Vocal loops, bright arpeggio, punchy drums, and some serious French touch action.

Click here to download it via yousendit (quick, quick!).

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The Ting Tings - "Shut Up and Let Me Go" (Classixx Remix)

When we first caught wind of this, our first guess was: ham-fisted big-room superclub bullshit. Turns out we were about as wrong as it's possible to be. The LA duo (who you'd better check out this Friday) changes the pitch and volume of Katie White's voice, and all of a sudden she sounds confused and lost instead of empowered. Throw in an easy bassline, some very human-sounding percussion, and a beat that moves more furtively than aggressively, and you've got the track for your nights when you go out to avoid thinking about somebody.

Click here to download it via Le Blog du Baron.

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Dave Aju - "Crazy Place" (Luciano Remix)

Just so everybody knows, this track's mostly for the DJs; most of you aren't going to keep a 11-minute-long tech-house remix on your iPods for very long. But if you give this one a listen on proper speakers, you may find yourself looking out for a ticket to this bad boy. Despite the 4/4 beat, this track never stops changing, and it's the kind of thing that'll make the real dancers go delirious.

Tickets, in case you were wondering, are still available.

Click here to download it via The ill-ec-tro-nic.

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Kanye West vs. Radiohead - "Love Reckoner" (DJ Earworm Mash)

It was almost a year ago when we heard the Hood Internet's "Tambourine Reckoner," a mash-up of Eve's "Tambourine" and Radiohead's "Reckoner." There was something so disarming and touching about it, we assumed it would never be topped, not least because the Hood Internet have few peers in the mash-up business. But if someone was going to do it, it makes sense that it was DJ Earworm. The guy's literally written a book about mash-ups, and this, a thoughtful mash of "Reckoner" and Kanye West's revised version of "Love Lockdown," will make you want to buy it

Click here to download it via Notes From a Different Kitchen (and be sure to check out the super-impressive video mash too).

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Late of the Pier - "Bears Are Coming" (The Emperor Machine Remix)

We've had kind of a love-hate relationship with Late of the Pier in the past year, when they were given too much credit for too little (we're standing by that, too). But if you sweep the hype away, they're just a band making their American debut during CMJ, and an intriguing one at that. They're playing at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on October 22, and we wish the Emperor Machine was coming along with them. This is an uncommonly good fit, with the Emperor Machine's spacey, squiggly drama working as the perfect foil for LotP's cocky, bizarre vocals.

Right-click here to download it via Astralwerks.

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MIT - "Park"

We're kind of breaking our own rules with this one, because we think blogs should leave young bands alone; the only way a young, new, promising band can bloom into a formidable one is through repetition, and working at something until they get completely sick of it, or buy into it all the way. German trio MIT aren't even old enough to buy beer in America, but they skew the sterile synth-pop and motorik traditions of their countrymen with ease, and if someone's going to build up enough buzz to get them into the United States, it might as well be us.

Right-click here to download it.

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Roots Manuva - "Let the Spirit" (Hot Chip Remix [Radio Edit])

Well this is exciting. "Let the Spirit," from Roots Manuva's recently released Slime and Reason, was produced by none other than English pop-art-punks Metronomy, and its muted, quirky textures and well-arranged bleeps were a real revelation (those catchy MIDI horns didn't hurt either). And if the original's an understated anthem, Hot Chip decided to throw the "understated" part out the window with their remix. They pick up with that horn melody moving in the middle of a lonely guitar landscape, and before you can get your bearings, in comes the two-step, the yowling bass, and the burnt up synthesizers. This is just the radio edit, so just imagine what this sounds like stretched out. Let the spirit move you.

Click here to download it via Terrorbird.

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The Very Best featuring Ben Brewer - "Dinosaur On the Ark"

Errr, um....what? So, Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit, that divine and unlikely pairing that collaborated on so many remixes together, decided they'd like to work more together. "What do you mean, more?" you ask. Well, at the outset, it appears to mean a mixtape, which features everything from rip-off African pop to stirring indie rock like this, a track that features vocals from M.I.A.'s baby daddy.

As you might have discerned, this has our eyebrows arched at a precipitous angle. But it's also got us humming the chorus over and over again, so...there you go. Yeah.

Click here to download it via Gorilla vs. Bear.

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The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - "The Sun Ain't Shining No More"

Guys, calm down: this isn't what it looks like. We know you guys saw the band's name, read that they were from Denmark, looked at their haircuts and thought. BOOM! Electronic synth-pop duo with a slight, melancholy figure! BANG! But hold on: this band does things quite a bit differently. Take the white boy Motown sound Mark Ronson's been pushing, kick it out of the studio and shoo it into the garage of the hottest people on your block and Boom!

BANG!

Click here to download it via Girlie Action.

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Eamon Harkin - "Innit"

"Ahhh yes. Disco re-edits. Fantastic. What a novel idea. Great."

You've heard that before, we'd imagine. Well, on some level we're inclined to agree. The re-edits scene is like today's Republican party: it offers folks what they want to hear at the expense of what's really going on, they cocoon themselves in a time that has pretty much totally disappeared (and that's assuming it existed in the first place)...

But then again: classic disco house piano, 303s, 808s, and 909 horns behind driving drums? Fuck yeah!

Click here to download it via Music For Robots.

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The Presets - "Anywhere" (Still Going Remix)

Talkaboutcher pleasant surprises: We were a little worried that the Presets might decide to offer up "Anywhere" to remixers. As Apocalypso's sexiest track (tellingly, it's also the loneliest), we were worried that the invited parties would use some ham-fisted approach and kill the mood. But instead, Still Going display a soft touch. As fans of their "Theme" might recall, Eric Duncan and Olivier Spencer can create dancefloor gold out of the barest of minimums, and here, with just a smidge of acid, they bend sex with the Presets into an entirely new proposition.

Click here to download it via Disco Delicious.

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M.I.A. featuring Jay-Z (!!) - "Boyz" (Remix)

Hey Diddy,

When real moguls try to get out the vote, they don't make stupid ads for MTV. They do guest spots on hot tracks that deal specifically with the issues at hand.

Nice talking to you.

Luv,
GBH & Jay-Z

Click here to download it via Notes From a Different Kitchen.

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Yo Majesty - "Kryptonite Pussy" (UMYO Remix)

This isn't exactly new (we've been bumping it on the radio since last year), but we just couldn't resist, because this is probably one of the ten best rap remixes of all time. Shunda and Jwl of Yo Majesty, in their natural state, are sometimes hard to keep up with, especially in the face of all that ice-cold electro and booty music they usually rap over. But Swedish producer UMYO pulls off one serious white label coup here (Pr*nce + B-More = heaven). It's so exuberant that any a cappella would sound fine over it, but it turns "Kryptonite Pussy" into something your mom would sing along with. You nasty, girls, you nasty!

Click here to download it via VIDEO POP.

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JoJo de Freq - "Welcome to Dalston"

Strange but true: for a while, my response to Facebook's question about favorite music was "Anything Jojo de Freq puts on the decks." It stayed there a bit longer than was appropriate (I'm a sucker for anything that rhymes), but yeah. Jojo was one of Nag Nag Nag's resident DJs, and you've got to have a deep bag if you're going to hold a post like that for as long as she did. Here, on one of her first releases for her own Mythic records, she's come up with a superior mixing tool, a seven-minute chameleon that'll play nice with everything from deviant disco to aerated house to classic techno. Fine craftsmanship from one of the lifers.

Click here to download it via the Slutty Fringe.

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Kasper Bjorke - "It Doesn't Matter" (The Juan Maclean Remix)

Nobody strikes a better balance between moody, slightly downcast emotion and steady forward momentum than Juan Maclean. It's something he can pull off masterfully by himself, but give him a lonely female vocalist - Nancy Whang, Sally Shapiro, Asia Argento - and everything changes. Even though this original track was produced by the eminently capable Kasper Bjorke, the real star here is the lead vocalist of New York band the Pierces, whose sleepy, haunted voice will hold you in place as Maclean's production pulls you into oblivion. Twist in the wind to this one.

Click here to download it via yousendit (hurry!).

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MGMT - "Of Moons, Birds and Monsters" (Holy Ghost! Remix)

It's truly amazing how much you can do with some close-miked hi-hats and some Italo bass. Sure, Holy Ghost's other remixes have involved more (keyboard horns on Moby's "I Love to Move in Here," for example), but they remain the engine behind most of the duo's work, and here that trend continues. Behind MGMT's prog-minded vocals, Nick and Justin create a coursing, funky rhythm section that you won't be able to resist.

Click here to download it via Sundtrak.

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Morgan Geist - "The Shore"

As you might've noticed, there's been a recent run of lush electro-synth-pop across the blogs, and it's mostly left us unimpressed. None of the newcomers hold a candle to Morgan Geist, a New York City disco vet who's got more production and arranging talent than all the Moulinexes and Dave1s and P Thugs (all right, we said it) of the world combined. On "The Shore," a track off his solo debut Double Night Time, Geist and Junior Boys vocalist Jeremy Greenspan team up for a sublime piece of white boy electrofunk, the nimble keyboard bass and impeccably honed keyboard accents just as seductive as Greenspan's multi-tracked pillow talk. Get ready to be impressed.

Click here to download it via Rollin' and Scratchin'.

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MSTRKRFT featuring N.O.R.E. - "Bounce" (A-Trak Remix)

With all due respect to Kid Sister's "Control," we still think of "Bounce" as the definitive track of the hip-house revival. We want to see it do well, obviously, and MSTRKRFT really saved the best for last: A-Trak's remix laps the competition by going old school. Quick horn squawks, a cowbell, and some breaks are the real stars here, and A-Trak deploys that electro prickle wisely. Get ready to hear this a lot.

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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Boys Noize - "My Head" (Para One Remix)

Caution: Must only be played at the craziest time of the night.

Failure to heed this warning may result in hysteria.

Click here to download it via zShare.

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Treasure Fingers - "Cross the Dancefloor" (Chromeo Remix)

In case any of you guys are staring at this and thinking, "This is too big a slam dunk. There's no way this is going to work out as well as it clearly ought to,"allow us to reassure you. Dave and P have been doing this since Treasure Fingers was wearing braces, and their touch makes this track about a gajillion times better. In fact, if both parties could get together and hammer out some kind of deal where Dave gets to sing an entire song's worth of lyrics over this beat, and the royalties are shared, then we'd all be winners.

Click here to download it via the iheartcomix blog.

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The Count and Sinden featuring Rye Rye - "Hardcore Girls" (Don Rimini Remix)

Earlier speculation has turned out to be true: the new Count and Sinden single is going to be for "Hardcore Girls." And sweet Jesus, what a single it's going to be. On this remix, Don Rimini, who's buddies with those Italian savages Crookers, takes Rye Rye's verse and lays it out more neatly over some demented, popping house. The results go over just as well in a basement as they do in a glitzy club, which is all you can really ask for.

Right-click here to download it via Domino

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Hot Chip - "Touch Too Much" (Mock & Toof Remix)

Mock & Toof makes music for your chemical-ravaged brain. Where plenty of the new jack producers will take every remix opportunity to turn tracks into coke-driven death marches, these guys make something you can follow around a spliff. And this is quite possibly their best effort yet, a nine-minute-long rabbit hole of warm keyboards and likembe insulating the snippets of piano and guitar taken from the original. Throw this on, and don't get lost in your navel.

Click here to download it via Pound for Pound

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Nacho Lovers - "Acid Life" (Surkin Remix)

If it says Fool's Gold on the label, you know it's gotta be good. Especially if you're talking about somebody like Surkin being involved. The French boy wonder keeps the Canadian duo's wonky, overdriven bass guitar and the vocal chops, but then before you know it, bright house keys are in charge of your ass, and it's on you to keep up. If you're going to rave, then by god, rave to this..

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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F*kkk Offf - "Rave is King"

If some of you were starting to wonder where all the European electro heads had gone, well, you can stop looking. Bastian Heerhorst (a.k.a. F#$&#@ Offf) is electro with that little bit of space menace thrown in to keep you raging that much longer. This is featured on the fast-rising Coco Machete label, which apparently has so much heat on the way that they can afford to give this away for free. Feel it.

Click here to download it via Coco Machete Records.

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Fannypack - "Theme From Frank"

Some fusspot over at the normally-reliable allmusic wondered, in his review of Ghetto Bootleg, the new Fannypack odds-and-ends collection, why Tommy Boy would officially re-release something that was originally published in super-limited edition (1000 copies total). And we have just one word for this crankball: becausefannypackareawesomeandwewantthemtocomebackbecausewelovethem-STUPIDMAN!!!.

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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The Chap - "Proper Rock"

The Chap is your new favorite band. They are experienced, original, European (this adds, we're told, a certain cache) and above all, terribly, terribly clever. But where certain bands (cough, Prinzhorn Dance School!, cough) stare at you coldly and dare you to laugh at their jokes, the Chap undercuts their dryness with the songwriters' equivalent of a noogie. Or maybe a wedgie. Proper songs about girls and clubbing, indeed.

Click here to download it via Ghostly International's band page.

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Wale - "Breakdown" (DJ Infamous Remix)

Man, we are entering unsafe territory over here. We get excited when we find out what kind of breakfast cereal Wale eats, and so when our favorite new rapper drops a new track (and never mind that it's for some Levi's-sponsored giveaway CD) and offers us a sneak peek at his pair of jeans, well...excuse us while we go and buy some pants.

Click here to download it via some website that Levi's set up.

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Surkin vs. Chromeo - "Chrome Knight"

As Surkin undoubtedly heard from his boy Mehdi, when you need a hook, you call Dave1. Also, in case you hadn't heard, Dave and P are spinning on Thursday. We're thrilled.

Click here to download it via Trash Bag Kids.

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A-Trak - "Say Whoa" (Boys Noize Remix)

"They hear the bass and they say, 'Whoa!' (Whoa!)
"And then they git down on the flo'" (Oh!)

Click here to download it via BRRRLN.

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Noble Society featuring 77Klash - "The Swarm" (Zuzuku Cumbia Klash Remix)

Know how sometimes you hear something and you immediately think, "Mad Decent." It's time to get that feeling again. This is exclusive to their blog (apparently), so love it.

Click here to download it via the Mad Decent blog.

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Boys Noize - "Oh!" (A-Trak Remix)

The names speak for themselves. Get some of this in person next Friday, or you'll be sorry. Like, really, really sorry.

Click here to download it via BRRRLN.

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Mr. Oizo - "Positif" (Bootleg)

Unbelievable. Normally, label heads and artists alike get really pissed off when highly anticipated albums get leaked almost two months in advance. But Pedro et al have been strangely quiet about the surfacing of two tracks off Lambs Anger. Which makes us think they planned it; it makes tons of sense that they'd release "Z," which is an odd little grower, and a bootleg of "Positif," a dark, out-of-tune little snarler that sics a synth loop, a vocal sample, and a scary bassline on you. Vous etes des animaux, indeed.

Click here to download it via Club Soda.

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Pin Me Down - "Cryptic (Phones Materialisation Mix)"

We're sure all of you have continued to follow Kitsune's signings and releases obsessively since their 2006 heyday. So even though there's no reason we should even bother explaining that Pin Me Down is a side project for Bloc Party's Russell Lissack and his comely pal Millena Mepris, or that this is the best remix Paul Epworth has done in ages, or that the single containing this awesome track and its pals is available in both physical and digital formats...well, here's a heads-up.

Right-click here to download it.

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Lykke Li vs. Booka Shade - "Melodies, Desire, and Charlotte" (The Hood Internet Mashup)

We were rereading our posts recently, and we noticed that we've taken to cursing a bit more than we ought to. It's getting in the way of the descriptions, and plus, we're sure that it offends you (some of you. A few of you. What we're trying to say, Mom, is we're sorry). So, from here on out, we're going to behave ourselves and try to keep the cursing to a minimum. Well, after this post, because goddamn, this song is awesome. So f*&#$ing good. So god s#&$# poop c*$@ good.

Right-click here to download it

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John Brown - "Sarah Palin (I Wanna Lay Pipe)"

Okay, so "Ohio" it ain't. But still: kinda hilarious! And the beat's nothing to sneeze at.

Click here to download it via the The Tape

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Re-Up Gang vs. Studio - "Fast Piano" (ABX Mash-up)

ABX is just ridiculous. As one half of the most deadly mash-up duo in the universe (the Hood Internet), ABX goes beyond the everyday "hey, lookit!" gimmick of mash-ups, and actually pushes the pop envelope. Rollicking indie rock vs. princely hip hop clowning (the world-beating "Drug Drug Kiss Kiss," a combination of AC Newman's "Miracle Drug" and T-Pain and Chris Brown's "Kiss Kiss")? Check. Opulent, proto-Balearica vs. super-deluxe, money-obsessed rap? Ch-ch-ch-check!

Click here to download it via the Hood Internet

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Liquid Liquid - "Optimo" (DJ Sample Remix)

Whoa. Liquid Liquid remixes. Officials ones, no less (October 4, mark it down). Some of the players involved: Optimo (in case some of you were wondering, they took the name from this track), Tim Goldsworthy, Matthew Dear....and this guy. Who we're suddenly very curious about.

Click here to download it via Headphone Sex.

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Of Montreal - "Id Engager" (Mad Decent Remix)

Kevin Barnes is a freaking genius. After taking a man-sized risk and jumping off the E6 bandwagon (remember those earlier albums?) and landing on the dancefloor, the glittered frontman is moving full steam ahead, with a new album, Skeletal Lamping, promising more of that high-energy craziness.

But what do you do if you've mortified a not-inconsiderable segment of your fan base? You go and get a new one! And how do you do that? You go to Diplo. Like we said: freaking genius.

Click here to download it via the Mad Decent Blog.

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The Juan Maclean - "Find a Way"

Question for you all: Is this a track that didn't make the final cut for The Future Will Come, or the centerpiece of a limited edition tour-only CD that's going like hotcakes?

Well, the answer's both, but we'll ask again: Which is it?

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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{{Sunset}} - "Zombies"

Bill Baird must be some kind of great communicator. His band {{Sunset}} went from a one-man show to a sextet, and he still managed to keep a tight grip on the reins. Since you're going to demand proof of this claim, we're offering you "Zombies," a track that's as goofy as it is dark. Sandy says that time is running out / we've wasted all our time on amphetamines and doubt, goes one particularly memorable verse, as a mix of trombones, organ, beatboxing (!!), and steady drums marches slowly on, at a (we had to do it:) zombie-like pace.

Right-click here to download it.

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Van She - "Changes" (G.L.O.V.E.S. Remix)

G.L.O.V.E.S used to be part of a duo known as Damn Arms, and even though we weren't ever especially fond of them, this remix is absolutely on point. All that warm synth power! And those tidy synth arpeggios! And - waitaminute - are those handclaps!

Superior work. P.S. Be on the lookout for his Bang Gang 12" debut sometime in the next few months.

Click here to download it via Check the Availability.

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Miss Kittin - "Grace" (Sleeparchive Remix)

People may have been ignoring them (we still think it's the cover art), but Caroline Herve (a.k.a. Miss Kittin)'s last two singles have been really sweet. That "Black Labelle" remix of "Kittin is High" is a towering monster, and this, the A-side of Kittin's last single, is one mysterious, static-y, dub beast. If this grabs you (and it's gonna), check out the man's other remix work. It's the sound of insomniac, zombie dancing. And we love it.

Click here to download it via Just Press Play

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Tiga & Zyntherius - "Sunglasses at Night" (Alter Ego Remix [Instrumental])

Whaaaaaat...?! You can't be serious. Turbo's giving this track away?! We know that coverage of single and EP releases isn't quite what it should be, but we're shocked by how little attention the Sunglasses at Night EP has received. We've played most of the "Sunglasses at Night" remixes on the radido show, and to us, this is the gem of the whole release, an airy epic undercut by Roman Flugel and Joern Elling Wuttke's demented senses of humor (and bass). We refused to link you to this track out of respect, but if Tiga et al want to give away one of the coolest remixes of the year, well, we can't stop them.

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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Muscles - "The Lake" (Jokers of the Scene Remix)

Gotta admit: when we heard Muscles was using "The Lake" as his next single, we were a little confused. Well, a lot confused.

But then again: when we heard that Jokers of the Scene were involved, and we were reassured. Totally reassured.

Click here to download it via Pitchfork.

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Empire of the Sun - "Walking on a Dream"

Aussie pop nerds are sure to understand how intriguing this is. Empire of the Sun is a duo made up of members of PNAU and the Sleepy Jackson, and the intention here seems to be to play things straight. To put things in perspective, their idea of "playing it straight" involves wearing unspeakable mullet wigs, outrageous eye makeup, and what look like kimonos designed by people from a post-80's apocalypse.

Intriguing, right?

Click here to download it via Missing Toof.

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Duke Dumont Live at Fabric (August 22, 2008)

Uh oh. Duke Dumont at Fabric, for 90 minutes. Uncut. Uninterrupted.

Oh yeah. This is happening.

Click here to download it via Discobelle.

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TV on the Radio - "DLZ"

Well, here it is. We've been hearing for years - years! - that album sales are down because the quality is down, because there hasn't been something worth shelling out money for. Friends, lovers, countrymen, in two weeks we're going to find out just how true those excuses really are. The new TV on the Radio album, Dear Science, is one of the best records to come out all year, driven by innovation and grandiosity as much as compelling melodies and songwriting. Here, on a track that (unfortunately) got leaked last week, the immaculately miked drums are sharp, the sense of dread and brooding is thick enough to cut with a knife, and Kyp Malone's voice is captivating.

Save the date, everybody. September 23rd. Get Adepimpe & co. on the Billboard charts. Put up or shut up.

Click here to download it via Babylon Noise.

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Ladyhawke - "From Dusk til Dawn" (Linus Loves Remix)

This is just one of those matches made in heaven. Ladyhawke's got a pretty obvious thang for Stevie Nicks ("Back of the Van," anybody?), and on his last record, Linus Loves sampled two Miz Nicks to wonderful effect. For his part, Linus brings some rather, uh, Lifelike synths to the table, and pairs them with the lite funk guitar from the original. We're having trouble confirming if this is an "official" remix or not (it's legit to us), but if it isn't, well, shame on you, Modular. This is handily improves on the original, and you know it!

Yeah. You know it .

Click here to download it via the Docking Station.

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High Places - "From Stardust to Sentience"

Despite their tremendous start, the Brooklyn-based duo High Places is taking things slow. Last year, they released a bubbling, cutesy collection of singles, each of which seemed to revel in youth and wonder. From the sound of things, their upcoming debut (coming out on Chicago-based Thrill Jockey) takes that wonderment onto a larger stage; an internationally-colored beat bumps and shakes through gentle gusts of string instrument samples as lead singer Mary Pearson marvels at where we came from.

They're still figuring their live show out, but come check them out for free at the East Village Radio festival tomorrow (Semptember 6). You won't be sorry.

Click here to download it via the Tripwire.

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Bjork featuring Antony Hegarty - "Dull Flame of Desire" (Modeselektor's Remix for Girls)

We probably should've alerted you to the existence of this remix a lot sooner. It's one of Volta's stronger tracks, after all, and a great crossover collaboration; it's easily the best context we've ever come across for Antony Hegarty's grand, sad voice. And Modeselektor, knowing their audiences the way they do, figured the smart thing to do would be to please everybody with two remixes. The "Boys" version is, understandably, a little heavier, with sliced up vocals and that weird robo-space-reggae sound they've been honing for the past few years. But the "Girls" version is an entirely different animal: thinner, with a muted, constant drum kick complemented by unobtrusive breaks, the soaring duet plays out in a field of dampened, epic chords. It's a real showstopper, a perfect accompaniment to everything from a climactic kiss to fireworks. Maybe even both.

Click here to download it via LeTouch.

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Cazals - "Somebody Somewhere" (Moulinex Remix)

We're a little ferklempt, so we'll give you a topic:

Moulinex 2008 = datA 2006?

Discuss.

Click here to download it via RedThreat.

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N*E*R*D - "Anti-Matter" (A BreYthing Ape Remix)

Holy crap. So, we have absolutely no idea who this BreYthing Ape character is. After some initial digging, it's starting to look like he's some dude from Norf London, and he may or may not have something to do with We Do It Right, the internet magazine that we found this on. But eventually, that's probably going to change. Thanks to a relentless (but not excessive!) house beat and a thick electro bassline, Pharrell's better tracks gets transmogrified into a total stormer. Get in on the ground floor with this dude.

Click here to download it via We Do It Right.

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Simian Mobile Disco - "Love" (Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve Remix)

Every time we think we're completely sick of the wankery of beardo disco, with its would-be psych hooey and endless, pointless expanses (and that's before we even get into the limpdick New Age melodies, Lindstrom), we just put on a remix by Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve. Erol Alkan's remix is actually more of a cover, turning Barry Dobbin's chorus from a proclamation to an incantation, the kind of thing that will help anyone slide gracefully into the track's ether.

Click here to download it via You Can Call Me Pelski.

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The Count & Sinden featuring NY - "Fool in Love"

We think it might be time to get seriously hyped about that Count and Sinden album again. Earlier in the summer, we were bummed to hear we'd have to wait til fall. But guess what? It's pretty much fall now, and this leak has Sinden's fingerprints all over it. That middle eastern sample (is that an oud?), the melancholy d&b mixed with vocalist NY's soulful r&b, and then, as a final curveball...well, you're going to have to download it to find out.

Click here to download it via Find Voltorb, Catch Voltorb.

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MGMT - "Kids" (Soulwax Remix)

Anyone who says they knew MGMT would be the second-best remixed band this summer is lying. Even though now, in retrospect, it makes perfect sense - excellent hooks and young-ish, impassioned vocals are really all you need - nobody really saw this coming. But we're glad it's shaken out this way, because this one's a mother. Any DJ could play this twice in one set, and we wouldn't care a bit.

Click here to download it via Winnie Cooper.

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Crystal Castles - "Crimewave" (Sinden Remix)

For a while, we thought that Sinden was kind of a one-note producer: all hard, all the time. An immensely talented one-note producer, sure, but one-note nonetheless. So color us surprised - pleasantly surprised, even - that on "Crimewave," a track that could definitely withstand some merciless chopping and crushing, insistent drums, he basically offers up a few spare tweaks.

Click here to download it via Kunk Budapest.

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Cut Copy - "Hearts on Fire" (Calvin Harris Remix)

Bet you didn't think "Hearts on Fire" could be big, bright, and direct now, did you? Go on, admit it.

Click here to download it via Penned Madness.

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{{{Sunset}}} - "Diamond-Studded Caskets"

As we imagine Bill Baird's {{{Sunset}}} wandering the country in their biofueled van, this is the song that wafts through our head every time. With its Floydian guitar melody, empty barroom piano, and almost private vocals, it's the consummate road companion, a perfect reason to be by oneself and on the way to somewhere new. Take it with you on your next road trip.

Click here to download it.

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Resident Advisor Mix: Still Music's Jerome Derradji

Pardon us for a second while we alert you to a really, really cool label. You might not have heard of Still Music, Past Due, or Stilove4music, but Jerome Derradji runs all of them out of Chicago. Derradji's main commitment is to bringing together all the current strands of music that developed out of soul and disco, and tying them back together, and his operation is so far past the lip service paid to rescuing and hailing the past that it can make most other dance music seem kind of silly. Here, on a mix Derradji did for online dance music hub Resident Advisor, the finest members of Derradji's stable lovingly bring you edits and reworkings of classics by Brass Construction, Loleatta Holloway, D-Train, and more. This mother's an hour long, so it requires a bit of a commitment, but if you love music as much as Derradji does, you'll understand.

Click here to download it via Resident Advisor; it's at the bottom of the feature.

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The Count & Sinden featuring Rye Rye - "Hardcore Girls"

It's been tough to suss out what this track's deal is. There are rumors it's going to be on the Count and Sinden's album, even though Rye Rye's verse is (at least partly) recycled and the beat is basically an edit of Sinden's edit of Soulwax's remix of "Lovelight" (whew!). But don't let that terrible, terrible description fool you: this is sick.

Click here to download it via the Find Voltorb, Catch Voltorb.

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The Bang Gang DJs - Mini Teaser Mix

In case you don't own it already, the last Bang Gang Deejays release - the mind-melting kitchen sink double-disc Light Sound Dance - is probably still the best single representation of everything that's happened to the world of dance music in the past few years (well, everything not mnml). And here, on this teaser for its follow-up, D is for Disco, E is for Dancing , the Aussie superheroes rip through 45 tracks in ten minutes, reminding the world that they're still in a league of their own.

Click here to download it via the Bang Gang Podcast page.

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The Faint - "The Geeks Were Right" (Boys Noize vs. D.I.M. Remix)

When we heard the Faint were releasing a new record, our initial reaction was one of worry: it's been nearly four years since Wet From Birth, their last album, came out, and it didn't hold a candle to Danse Macabre. But then we got to thinking: in the hands of the right remixers, new material from the Faint might actually yield something pretty awesome. Somebody like, say, D.I.M. Or Boys Noize, maybe...

Click here to download it (exclusively!) via Voules Random.

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Matt & Kim - "Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare"

Bands that tour for as long as Matt and Kim did aren't supposed to have any creative juice left. They're supposed to be fried, smelly, sick of each other, and (at least back in the good old days) trying to get rid of the clap. They're not supposed to come back and write decidedly stronger material to follow-up on their much-beloved debut.

...This stinks. We're calling the FBI.

Click here to download it (exclusively!) via RCRD LBL.

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The Ting Tings - "That's Not My Name" (LA Riots Remix)

Wherever you go, there they are.

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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Tittsworth feat. Kid Sister and Pase Rock - "WTF"

Tittsworth: Bringing dancefloor leaders together since, um, a long-ass time ago.

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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Jesse Rose & Action Man - "Take It to the Club"

(WHOOMP WHOOMP) Jesse Rose (WHOOMP WHOOMP) Josh Harvey (WHOOMP WHOOMP) a.k.a. (WHOOMP WHOOMP) Action Man! (WHOOMP WHOOMP) New hotness! (WHOOMP WHOOMP) This track rules! (WHOOMP WHOOMP)

Click here to download it via Berlin Birthday Party.

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Eli Escobar vs. Keyshia Cole - "Shoulda Let You Go"

Gotta say, we're definitely feeling the whole "Top Billin as impresarios thing" going on right now. We've never been the biggest fans of these Fins' productions (even though their overall aesthetic's right in step with ours), but they've got great taste. This, along with Bounce Camp's "Big Dancing," is one of the main reasons why their latest EP, Sexytime, is most certainly worth your money. Dance with that special someone!

Click here to download it via Disco Dust.

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Crookers vs. Tittsworth - "Il Cattivo / THUNDER"

In the words of the Hulk:

"Crookers and Tittsworth SMASH!"

Click here to download it via the Mad Decent Blog.

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Late of the Pier - "Heartbeats" (Hot Chip Remix)

Late of the Pier would do well to take some cues from Hot Chip. While Late of the Pier are interested in making rock music that's more discordant, Hot Chip was also proud of its weird streak. They still are, but they've done a remarkable job of melding it to a sound fit for mass consumption. Here, they take hold of Late of the Pier's best song, and turn it into something that clonks and shakes, then slurs and screams over synths before resuming its dance for itself. It's a fantastic loner dance party, and here's hoping that Late of the Pier didn't sleep through the lesson. Respect your elders.

Click here to download it via zShare.

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Kiss My Bits - A Mixtape by DJ Chicus & 33Hz

If you've been following 33Hz lately (and we like to think you have been), you've probably noticed that the band's tastes are pretty eclectic. Between the remixes, the singles, and (duh) the live shows, the band's shown themselves capable of quite a lot. And here, on this new mixtape the band's put together with their boy DJ Chicus, the list keeps expanding. Mash-ups, electro-rap, tech-house, cosmic disco....Yes. Delicious.

Click here to download it via Rapidshare.

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Alphabeat - "Boyfriend" (Pete Hammond Remix)

So, you know how people are always going on and on about how such-and-such a song is "so 80's" or this track is "so 70's"? Well, this Pete Hammond remix is - and we say this in the best possible sense of the word - SO freestyle. Syndrums, keyboard horn parts, uppity synth refrains and sharp funk guitars all take this song to a level we didn't think was even really possible. We know there's a lot of year left, but let's go ahead and just say that this is the best remix of the year until someone comes along and proves us wrong. The gauntlet's been thrown down.

Click here to download it via The Determined Dilettante.

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Xinobi - "Day Off"

We first got wind of Xinobi thanks to the overstuffed Rewind: 80's Remix Project; dude had the good taste to remix Roger Troutman. And speaking of good taste, we think it's more than a little perfect that we're bringing you this guy now, with summer beginning its stretch run. Xinobi's music is all nostalgia for sunshine, girls, glory (and, obviously, the 80's), and those smooth synths will leave you daydreaming about the good times. You know, like last week.

Click here to download it via Red Threat.

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DJ Class - "Roll It" (Pase Rock & XXXChange Remix)

Oh. Wow. So, remember how we told you last year that Fully Fitted was going to take over the world? The only evidence we could provide at the time was "100 Million," and for some reason, that didn't quite take amongst all of you. But after more than a few delays, the Fully Fitted Re-Edits EP is finally here, and the case is closed. This is DJ/pop genius of the highest caliber, and if you don't like it, then don't come around here anymore. You're not welcome. Seriously. Just take us out of your bookmarks, take our feed out of your RSS reader, and just go. And don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

Click here to download it via Above the Fold.

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Chemical Brothers feat. Spank Rock - "Keep My Composure"

Back when the Chems released "Galvanize" with Q-Tip a few years ago, it was so poppy that people managed to ignore the fact that it's done more to shape current dance and pop music than all but a handful of tracks. Next came "The Salmon Dance" with Fatlip, which got blown out of the water by the remix Crookers made. And now, with the world all a-twitter over the imminent mainstream revival of hip house (or maybe it's started already), here comes the most anticipated one yet. In a way, it's both safer than the aforementioned tracks and a lot grittier, and it's compelling for the simple fact that it's one of the most honest tracks Naeem's done in almost a year. Yessssss!

Click here to download it via You Can Call Me Pelski.

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Lykke Li - "I'm Good, I'm Gone" (Black Kids Remix)

When we first came across this, our eyes rolled. "Aw jeez, not another band trying to stay hip with the kids these days!" we mumbled. Aside from Cut Copy and maybe CSS, we basically think that bands should have to apply for Remixers Licenses, and even though we're still in favor of the idea, we're pretty confident Black Kids will ace the entrance exam. The vocals on "I'm Good, I'm Gone" are pretty simple (and pretty malleable), so the Jacksonville band takes them for a dancing spin through the NME's 80's, saying hello to New Order and the Pet Shop Boys along the way. Color us incredibly surprised by this one.

Click here to download it via !tashed.

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Francesco Tristano - "Strings of Life"

You've heard the techno classic "Strings of Life" before (obvs!), now try the piano version!

Now hang on a minute! If you'll stop dry-heaving in front of your keyboards and think about it , it actually sounds like kind of a great idea, doesn't it? And this Francesco Tristano character is just the man for the job. He recently released an album called Not For Piano, and it's basically just live, piano renditions of some of techno's most important tracks. Have a taste. You might love it.

Click here to download it via RCRD LBL.

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Fake Shark Real Zombie - "Designer Drugs" (Designer Drugs Remix)

Fake Shark Real Zombie gets to live the dream. Write a sweet track, then get a remix outfit of the same name to remix it. This thing isn't always so win-win, but we're talking about Designer Drugs here, a New York-based duo that specializes in relentless, grinding electro madness. Their work's appeared on iheartcomix comps, as well as some remix releases by Philly's Hail Social. Get it fast.

Right-click here to download it via Superfecta.

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Cut Copy - "Hearts on Fire" (Holy Ghost! Remix)

God, every new Holy Ghost! remix we come across is better than the one before. Their take on "I Love to Move in Here" was inspired, but here, the boys benefit from better source material: that sax, those easy, even-keeled vocals, and the warm, sunrise-esque synths are all right up the Holy Ghost alley, and they take the opportunity to make something that won't let you stop moving. Dance to this in your room at your own risk.

Click here to download it via Le Touch.

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Martin Gore - Live DJ Mix (November 13, 2004)

We're sure lots of you didn't know what you were getting yourselves into when you walked through Hiro's doors last night. And in case you walked out still unsure of what exactly was you heard, well, that was minimal techno. It emphasizes texture and sound design, and here, in a mix he recorded live back in 2004, you can hear the beginnings of what you heard last night (Thursday, July 24). You're welcome.

Click here to stream it.

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R.E.M. - "Man-Sized Wreath" (Peter Makebish and Jen Turner Remix)

We originally posted this remix a few weeks ago without giving any thought to what label R.E.M. is signed to. And we'd barely finished leaning back in our chairs when the lights went out, our office door blew open, and we were being dragged into a van by Warner Brothers' ninja-lawyers. After fighting bravely on a precipice overlooking the Cloisters (read: sloppily, pathetically begging them not to sue us), these proud warriors decided we had earned their respect, and they've let us post it for you again, for real this time.

Enjoy it.

Right-click here to download it.

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Booka Shade - "Charlotte"

As we've been saying for the last few years, Booka Shade makes music that's as busy as it is welcoming. We said it about their superior full-length Movements, we said it about their super-fun installment in the DJ-Kicks! series, and frankly, at this point we're running out of ways to say it. Come check them out next Friday, and invent one of your own.

Click here to download it via Circle Square Triangle.

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Kid Color - "Phoenix B-O-O-T-A-Y" (Daft Punk vs. Bangers and Cash)

Kid Color is another one of these Internet mash-up/remix/intellectual property pirates that we bump on the radio show all the time, and even though both of this track's parts are kind of on the old side, we couldn't really resist. It's a successful proof of our favorite mathematical theorem:

Cool song + Cool song = really cool dance track.

Hip-house, we love you!

Click here to download it via Data Sapiens.

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Metronomy - "Holiday"

As post-punk scuttles back to weirder ground in England, there are scores of bands trying (These New Puritans) and failing (Late of the Pier) to prove they don't need pop sense to make it on the big stage. It reeks of adolescent reaction, and it's the kind of thing that you generally need more experience to pull off. Enter Metronomy, who show us that you can include demented melodies and zonked out metallic percussion and still keep your balance.

...Thank God.

Right-click here to download it.

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Sebastien Tellier - "L'amour et la violence" (Boys Noize Remix)

We've been waiting for Sebastien Tellier's record to come out for quite a while, and finally (mercifully, even), Sexuality will be released....at American Apparel. Whatever. Next Tuesday is next Tuesday, and a Boys Noize remix is always something to look forward to. Alex Ridha injects Sexuality's final track with some high drama, with pristine clicks and synth rushes surrounding everything. Rejoice. The wait is almost over.

Right-click here to download it.

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Ginuwine vs. Lil' Wayne - "Lollipop Pony" (Soundboy Mash)

Are you sick and freaking tired of hearing "Lollipop" already?

So were we. Note, however, the use of tense, because Ginuwine makes Weezy do things you've only read about in books, baby.

Click here to download it via zShare.

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Midnight Juggernauts - "Dystopia" (Cut Copy Remix)

Can a band with one of the best records of 2008 also be the best remixer of 2008?

Is that legal?

We're calling our lawyers.

Click here to download it via the Beeb Blog.

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Yaz vs. Foreigner - "Urgent Situation" (DJ Lobsterdust Mash)

Well, we figure that now's a good time to let you all know about Bootie USA. Started by Adrian and the Mysterious D (a.k.a. A Plus D) in San Francisco, the Bootie empire now extends far and wide, with parties across the coasts (San Fran and LA to New York and Boston) and also across the pond (Paris and London). Mash-ups are their game, and their blog has, if you'll pardon the expression, a whole f*ck-ton of them available for free. And since we've got Yaz's afterparty this week, crush on this when you get the chance. It's about a third of the way down, and while you could just hit ctrl+F to get right there, we think it's better for you to have a look around first. Fill your hard drives!!

Click here to download it via Bootie USA.

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Busta Rhymes - "Don't Touch Me" (Bird Peterson Remix)

Since we've got Bird Peterson on the radio show tomorrow (July 16, kids, right it down), we figured it only made sense to treat you to a remix of his. We were having trouble choosing between some of his older ones, and then, lo and behold, here comes the Bird with probably one of the best remixes he's ever done, a speed burn that'll make you lose your breath if you try to keep up with either the beat or Busta. Don't miss it. We're doing an interview and a mix. Go git it!

Click here to download it via zShare.

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PNAU feat. Ladyhawke - "Embrace" (Fred Falke and Miami Horror Remix)

You read that right. This is real. It's not a Rickroll. We promise.

So good.

Click here to download it via Ohhhh! Crapp.

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Rainbow Arabia - "Omar K"

Man, this is starting to get really interesting. In the last few months, there's been a bizarre uptick in the amount of Arab-influenced indie music coming out. Duke Dumont's "Hoy," Nadastrom's remix of "A Milli," and now (or, well, soon), an entire EP of the stuff courtesy of Rainbow Arabia, a West Coast duo that floats Arabian melisma and haze over their strident synth mashes. This is self-released, so hit them where it counts.

Right-click here to download it.

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Lil' Wayne - "A Milli" (Nadastrom Remix)

We had a feeling that "A Milli" was going to be one of those untouchable tracks of the year; its original form is so pure, and there's no way you can take Weezy's vocals and lay them over something that will top Bangladesh's beat. Which is way Nadastrom didn't do that; Wayne's vocals are so pitched down here that he sounds like Satan, and it doesn't help that they surrounded him by what we imagine they play in Hell on a Saturday night. Or so we hope. Immediate contender for Best Unofficial Remix of the Year. Believe it.

Click here to download it via Welcome to Dance Club.

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Paper Route Gangstaz vs. M83 - "Rollin" (DJ Ayres Blend)

DJ Ayres has always been one of the smartest guys in the room. And when it comes to his blends, there might not be a better guy in the business. Take this, for example. M83's "Couleurs" is a neverending chasm of synths that, on its own, kind of lacks something. So naturally, Ayres goes right ahead and grabs the year's best drug song, a track that made Diplo believe in a bunch of nobodies from Huntsville, Alabama. A song about ecstasy floating over a narcotic, slightly empty synth paradise? We told you the dude was smart...

Click here to download it via Panda Toes.

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Heartsrevolution - "Switchblade" (Dances With White Girls Remix)

We know we've posted quite a bit of Heartsrevolution round these parts, but before you roll your eyes and move on down, check the name next to the track. Dances With White Girls puts his own stamp on things, and if you dug on his Kudu remix, you're going to love this. Like, love love this.

Click here to download it via zShare.

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Madonna - "Get Into the Groove" (Sidechains Remix)

The way this normally works is pretty simple. We write a little something about the artist, a little something about the song, and then we urge you to download said song. But we feel like we'd be denying you the real pleasure here if we did that this time. See, this remix is part of Rewind, a gargantuan remix/covers project headed by a DJ duo called Buffet Libre. These two saints accumulated 59 (!!!) altered 80's classics, and decided, out of the goodness of their hearts, to give the whole kit n kaboodle away for nothing. They're not all heaters (check the Cloud Room's bizarro cover of "Blue Monday"), but each offers its own kind of freshness. Run (don't walk!) here for the whole thing...Oh yeah, and...

Right-click here to download it.

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Deadmau5 - "Alone With You"

Dance music gets subjected to double standards all the time, and normally, we're okay with that; 99 times out of 100, it's not supposed to be high art. But when it quietly manages to score among pop's upper percentiles, it usually gets short shrift. Take "Alone With You," for example. It's got a deliciously open-ended melody, the kind of thing that can build you up, make you smile to yourself, hope for the best while staying cautious. And with a smooth driving beat behind it, "Alone With You" does all three. And yet, pop nerds don't know. That's okay, they can thank us later.

Oh, and DJs beware: 96kbps only. Go buy that sh*t, son!

Right-click here to download it.

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Deadmau5 - "Duo Cad Sordit"

Generally speaking, we're not the biggest fans of teasing. People will get fed up if you play games with them too often, and that's just not our style, but we figure it's justified here, because we're giving you a teaser of a teaser. Deadmau5's "Duo Cad Sordit" is the first teaser, a nearly tribal slow-builder with well-mixed congas colored by deep space sunrises. Eventually, some agonized, swollen synths show up, but they never give you the release. It's the kind of thing that will leave a dancefloor in blissful agony, but at only 96kpbs, you can only guess at its true power. Come out next week for the real thing.

Right-click here to download it.

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Gregor Tresher - "Black Rain" (Gregor Tresher Remix)

We were glad to give you that Gregor Tresher freebie last week, as it's a great example of how well Tresher's fused the melodic and colorful sides of techno, house, and minimal. But something nagged at us. We didn't give you something that had a real beat to it. And after all, it's not like the man has no interest in percussion. Exhibit A awaits you here; the man himself takes the opening track off his much-lauded A Thousand Nights album and turns off all the lights, leaving you with only a steady beat and an engrossing collection of blips, ticks, and hisses to guide you. Get excited: he's coming next Thursday.

Right-click here to download it.

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Headshotboyz - "Exodus" (Bryan Cox Remix)

The other day some haterade-sippin dude snorted that "Bryan Cox wants to be MSTRKRFT" as though that was somehow bad. We're not going to say that Cox, who's still coming up in the world as a DJ and a producer, is on that level quite yet, but this bit of dark bassline nastiness is a bang in the right direction. The link below is live for 7 days or 100 downloads, whichever comes first, so hurry!

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