does everything need to have a title?

To zealous fans of indie music and the cool and trendy Myspace kids, Bloc Party would've been fucking old news. The thing is, theres nothing really new and exciting for the past weeks either so therefore, i bring u two fucking awesome remixes of BP's song. Besides, this is the only indie band i know of with a Black and Asian guy in it, how cool is that?

First off, the Cutoff and Flaxen remix of "The Prayer" really does accentuate Kele Okereke's vocals in a really nice way. Listen closely to the second breakdown where the remixers added alot of funky riffs to it.

Secondly, we have the SebastiAn aka Mr French Prodigy's remix of their latest single, "I Still Remember." Seb there has this really amazing ability to make all his songs sounds like an orgasmic techno orchestra, its a highly recommended listen, so please check this one out.

Bloc Party - The Prayer (Cutoff and Flaxen Remix)
Bloc Party - I Still Remember (SebastiAn Remix)

In other news, Justice won the Best French Act and also the Best Video (They call it something else). Well, Daft Punk has been busy with their concert so theres no one else to take Best French Act from Justice. However for the Best Video, i'm kinda surprise that they don't give it to Justin Timberlake or Kanye, well it's a good thing that MTV recognises such a talented dance act. And low and behold...Kanye lost it twice to Justice! (last year's We Are Your Friends).

Les Red Head finally hooks up with Justice

I was so excited to see the Les Rythmes Digitales remix (Stuart Price remix on Radio1, LRD Remix on blogs, no idea why) of D.A.N.C.E. played on Radio 1 last weekend and I finally got my hands on it today, and I gotta say, it's mad quality!

For those who don't know who LRD is, his real name is Stuart Price, most accomplished works to date would be the Madonna's "Confessions" album and also touring with her on the "Confessions" concerts. He goes by a few monikers, Jacques Lu Cont, Paper Faces, Thin White Duke for his remixing works and released an album under the LRD name back in 2000. On top of that also plays in a band, Zoot Woman. Whew, does one guy really need to have so many aliases?

Anyways, he's one of the artistes that got me listening to electronic dance music (the other's Daft Punk) and seems like he also play apart in influencing Justice too as they dropped LRD's "Sometimes" during their sets pretty often.

And now have a listen to the track, LRD did a good job keeping the 'chirpy' elements in D.A.N.C.E. unlike the other remixes (MSTRKRFT and Alan Braxe) where they take it away.

Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Les Rythmes Digitales Remix)

Soundaholic's Pick - 15.6.07

I don't wana look like too much of a Justice fan, cause everyone has been blogging about how great they are. But I gotta admit, there isn't simply one day in the last 3-5 months that I haven't listen to a Justice track. Moreover the whole world seems to be listening to their album on loop and every electro DJ have Justice on their set. So low and behold, it's time we drink the water...from Nazareth.

Justice - Waters Of Nazareth
Justice - Waters Of Nazareth (Justice Remix)
Justice - Waters Of Nazareth (Erol Alkan Durr Durrr Durrrrrr Re Edit)

I still remember how I got a headache after hearing this track for the first time. That was about half a year ago and I thought my CD player is skipping, then after awhile into the track, I was banging my head like crazy. Anyway heres a video of the Waters of Nazareth release party, it features a star studded lineup including Feadz, Mr Ozio, Uffie, SebastiAn, DJ Funk, Surkin, Kavinsky, Erol Alkan (Mustapha 3000) and Justice! I would kill to go to a gig like that. (go google the above names, they are the hottest electro musicians around these days)

if you can't beat em, join em!

"bonjour bro, can you hook me up with Daft Punk?"

You saw it coming didn't you.

Remember back in last year when Kanye West intereupted an award presentation at the MTV Europe Music Awards to complain bout how his "Touch the Sky" MV should have won best video instead of Justice VS Simian's "We Are Your Friends?"

well here it is to refresh your memory


and here's the video the whopped "Touch the Sky," real classic

And so, Kanye seems to have done some research on his rivals coz I just heard his latest single from his 2oo7 "Graduation" album thats scheduled to drop during end of August. You guessed it, theres a real unfortunate sample to it.

Kanye West - Stronger
Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (right click, save target to download)

My opinion..."Stronger" is mediocre at best (please pardon the oxymoron). Daft Punk's french electro sound definately don't go well with Kanye's style of hip hop. Thomas Bangalter must be fuming mad. However, another song from "Graduation" seems quite promising, "Bittersweet" features John Mayer and it's probably Dave Chapelle who hooked them up. Peep this very interesting studio interview.

Ha, I sure recognize some Dave Chapelle's style of humour in it. And if you've realise, Kanye seems really soft spoken in the interview which is totally different the way he act when he interupted the award presentation. Anyways here's a few remixes for "We are Your Friends" and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger."

Justice Vs Simian - We Are Your Friends (Radio Slave And Spencer Parker Re-Edit)
Justice Vs Simian - We Are Your Friends (Lee Cabrera's Lower East Side Remix)
Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger (Pharell William's Neptunes Mix)

Thats all for today folks, I'm going over to James Zabiela and Nic Fancuili's gig at MOS now.

Enjoy the weekends.

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†††JUSTICE†††

the new daft punk?

according to Hype Machine, this 2 French graphic designers turned electronic dance musician have been the most blogged-about artiste this past few months. no surprises as their much anticipated album "†" (cross) had just dropped this week. so if u haven't heard D.A.N.C.E...ur a turd and ur way behind time. so heres the MV for it, its a MUST WATCH.

JUSTICE - D.A.N.C.E.
Uploaded by edbangerrecords

I'm listening to the album now and i gota say that im totally impress, they definately live up to their hype after being called "the most influential musician from France since Daft Punk" by Pete Tong during last week's essential mix. and talking about their essential mix session, they totally pulled it off, lots of classic eighties samples intertwines smoothly amongst the hottest French electro tracks.

Download it Here.

and if ur confident about your streaming capabilities, listen to it below.

and heres the songlist.

I think they also set the record for the most amount of tracks during a single essential mix session (70 over songs in 2 hours!).

so here you go and have a good day, i'll put a few songs up for download over the next few days so come back and check often.

cheers!

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