SummersRadio™ New Remix! Joy Division!

SummersRadio™ New Remix! Joy Division - 'She's Lost Control' (Young Edits Voices In Her Edit) Luke Foskey aka Young Edits// Youth or simply Youth (not to be confused with U.K. musician/ producer Martin Glover aka Youth - who has produced or remixed artists such as Primal Scream, The Verve, U2, The Shamen, Art Of Noise and many others - and who also started the first psychedelic trance label - Dragonfly Records!) is a 22 year old dj/ producer from Brisbane Australia. He's just released his latest remix online - of the Joy Division classic 'She's Lost Control'!

'She's Lost Control' appeared on Joy Division's debut album 'Unknown Pleasures' in 1979. A different version of the song was later released as a single in summer of 1980. The lyrics involve a girl having an epileptic seizure - Joy Division's guitarist/ vocalist Ian Curtis also had epilepsy.

This remix is respectful of the original - Luke says on his Soundcloud page:

'A band synonymous with artistic influence on my generation and I am no exception. I've always toyed with the idea of turning this track into something dancefloor orientated, but I never wanted it to lose its depth of originality nor its dark edge.
Hopefully this edit does justice to one of the most phenomenal and influential bands of their time. RIP Ian x'

This is the 'Young Edits Voices In Her Edit' remix of 'She's Lost Control' which will be released soon on the Discofil label - I particularly like it when the acid techno bits kick in later in the song (about 5:50 in)... Enjoy!

Joy Division - Shes Lost Control (Young Edits Voices In Her Edit) by Young Edits // Youth

                   

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SummersRadio™ New Music! Jack White!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Jack White - 'Love Is Blindness' In yesterday's bonus track we featured Jack White in his collaboration with Electric Six - today we have a brand new Jack White track - a cover of U2's 'Love Is Blindness'! This month marks the 25th Anniversary of Q - the British music magazine. As part of their celebrations, the December issue of the magazine - which hits the stands this Wednesday the 26th - will come with a new exclusive U2 covers album - specifically an Achtung Baby tribute album! It also just happens to be the 20th anniversary of U2's 'Achtung Baby' next month - and the 12 track bonus disc is called 'Ahk-toong Bay-bi Covered'.

*update* If you were frustrated that you'd miss out on this release because you can't buy Q in your area, 'Ahk-toong Bay-bi Covered' is going to be released on itunes on November 15th!

Here's the complete tracklisting and cover art:

1. Nine Inch Nails - Zoo Station
2. U2 - Even Better Than the Real Thing (Jacques Lu Cont Mix)
3. Damien Rice - One
4. Patti Smith - Until The End Of The World
5. Garbage - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
6. Depeche Mode - So Cruel
7. Snow Patrol - Mysterious Ways
8. The Fray - Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World
9. Gavin Friday - The Fly
10. The Killers - Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
11. Glasvegas - Acrobat
12. Jack White - Love Is Blindness

                   

Despite beings a critics favorite 'Achtung Baby' is hardly my favorite U2 album - although it certainly has a few classic U2 songs on it. None of the tracks I'm still most curious to hear are posted anywhere just yet - the NIN, Depeche Mode or Snow Patrol covers - however they have released three songs online thus far. One is Garbage's 'Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses' - Shirley Manson's vocals are seductively lovely as always, but the song loses it appeal for me when the sludgy chorus kicks in. I didn't find it completely postworthy but you can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFJnzab8sng

They've also released the Damien Rice cover of 'One' - which just seems wrong to me - and Jack White's explosive cover of 'Love Is Blindness' - most certainly the stand out of these initial three offerings. As is the case with some of his own White Stripes material - Jack White manages to turn the U2 track into a full on Led Zeppelin styled freak out! It's gutsier, bluesier, and as Bono says on the magazine cover 'some of these versions are better than our own' - I just might be inclined to agree on this one... Enjoy!



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SummersRadio™ New Music! Peter Horrevorts!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Peter Horrevorts - 'Fire In The Disco' The Netherlands Peter Horrevorts has released a new EP on Germany's Kanzleramt label called 'Fire In The Disco'! It features two tracks - 'Fire In The Disco' and 'Smoke In The Club'.

'Fire In The Disco' mixes an array of genres together - it's mostly tech house but with sprinkles of reggae and ska, techno, and disco - with some great production - featuring plenty of keyboard effects... Enjoy!



Bonus Track! Well I could hardly post a song called 'Fire In The Disco' without thinking of Electric Six's classic 'Danger! High Voltage'! Electric Six just released their eighth studio album called 'Heartbeats And Brainwaves' earlier this month on Metropolis Records, but they achieved their first major success with this song in 2003 - fueled in part by the fact that it featured the White Stripes Jack White on backing vocals (under the psuedonym John S O'Leary) - as both bands were part of the Detroit garage rock scene.

This is the Les Rhythmes Digitalis (aka Stuart Price) 'Thin White Duke Mix' of 'Danger! High Voltage'... Enjoy!



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SummersRadio™ New Music! Secret Cinema & Kalden Bess!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Secret Cinema & Kalden Bess - 'Pow Pow' (Original Mix) Looking to add a little Pow! to your weekend? Rotterdam's Jeroen Verheij aka Secret Cinema and Canadian dj/ producer Bessioud Mohamed Khaled aka m0h aka Kalden Bess - have released a new EP together on Montreal's Ground Factory Records this week! It's called the 'Pow!' EP and it features three tracks - the first song is called 'Bam Bam', followed by 'Pow Pow' and then a dub version of 'Pow Pow'. It's currently available exclusively on Beatport here: http://www.beatport.com/#release/pow-ep/818740

I'm siding with the b-side as it were on this one - this is the 'Original Mix' of 'Pow Pow'. The song has an incredible drive to it - along with trippy French vocals - and plenty of spacey keyboards. You know how some songs are so encompassing that on a good night out they journey beyond the dancefloor - until everyone - people at their tables, in the bar lines ups - everywhere - are dancing? This is one of those songs... Enjoy!



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SummersRadio™ New Remix! Death Cab For Cutie! (+Bonus Track + Free Download!)

SummersRadio™ New Remix + Bonus Track + Free Download! Death Cab For Cutie - 'You Are A Tourist' (The 2 Bears Remix)/ The 2 Bears - 'Bear Hug' (Cristoff Remix) You may be thinking 'hey - didn't you just post a new DCFC remix last week'? Why yes, I did - as mentioned last week DCFC is releasing a new remix each week for a total of seven weeks - until their entire new 'Keys And Codes Remix EP' is officially released on November 22nd. I quite like DCFC but somewhat strangely I haven't felt compelled to buy their new album yet - it doesn't seem to be nearly as wonderful as 'Transatlanticism' or even 'Narrow Stairs' - it just sounds a bit watered down to me. However after hearing only two remixes I'm already committed to purchasing the full remix EP. So there's five remixes left - and if they're good - I'll post them too!

So this week's new remix is of their single 'You Are A Tourist' - by London's 2 Bears. The 2 Bears are a duo consisting of Raf Rundell and Hot Chip's Joe Goddard. This is an interesting remix - although I see that it's receiving a lot of flack in the youtube and itunes comments sections. But then a surprising number of people just don't get remixes anyway - sad, but true. I must admit that as a rule I'm generally not a fan of sped up vocals in a remix - and they are here. The effect is rather odd - it's almost like they're trying to make Ben Gibbard sound more like the Pet Shop Boy's Neil Tennant! But then when I first posted the video for 'You Are A Tourist' in April, I mentioned that I think that Gibbard also sounds like Jon Anderson (of Yes and Jon & Vangelis fame) when singing the line 'this fire grows higher'! Am I crazy or spot on?Anyway if you can get past the odd vocals, musically speaking this remix is top notch - and it has some awesome cowbell as well... Enjoy!



Bonus Track + Free Download! The 2 Bears released their third EP in May called 'Bear Hug' on Southern Fried Records. It's available in the U.K. - and in the U.S. on itunes, but somewhat annoyingly it's not on itunes here in Canada - however it is available on Beatport http://www.beatport.com/#release/bear-hug-ep/817869 - along with the 'Bear Hug Remixes' EP that came out in July. http://www.beatport.com/#release/bear-hug-remixes/392438

                  

Here's an interesting remix of the title track from the 'Bear Hug' EP that I came across on Soundcloud by Manchester's Chris Massey aka cristoffmassey. If this superbly funky remix is to your liking you can download it for free courtesy of cristoffmassey here: http://soundcloud.com/cristoffmusic/the-2-bears-bear-hug-cristoff (or click the download arrow below)

This is the 'Cristoff Remix' of The 2 Bears track 'Bear Hug'... Enjoy!

The 2 Bears - Bear Hug (Cristoff remix, mastered) by cristoffmassey

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SummersRadio™ New Music! Tracey Thorn! (+Bonus Tracks + Free Download!)

SummersRadio™ New Music + Bonus Tracks + Free Download! Tracey Thorn - 'Night Time'/ The xx - 'Night Time' (Pale Bootleg Remix)/ Deep Dish featuring Everything But The Girl - 'The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold)' Tracey Thorn is releasing a new EP called 'Night Time' - a cover of The xx song - on October 31st! The 'Night Time EP' will be available on a limited autographed (!) 12' single and also digitally. You can pre-order the autographed 12" from her official website here: http://www.traceythorn.com/

The 12" single will feature the title track plus two additional remixes of the song 'Swimming' - from her 'Love And It's Opposite' album released last year on her husband Ben Watt's Buzzin Fly label. There's a new 'Ewan Pearson Re-Edit' of the 'Visionquest Remix' - first released on the 'Opposites EP' - and a new remix from Charles Webster. The download will feature a fourth track - the 'Charles Webster Dub'.

This is the title track from Tracey Thorn's new 'Night Time' EP... Enjoy!

                   

Tracey Thorn - Night Time (The xx Cover) by MergeRecords

Bonus Track + Free Download! Here's an interesting chilled remix of the original xx version of 'Night Time' by 18 year old Leo Marcus aka Pale from Manchester. If this remix is to your liking you can download it for free from his Soundcloud page here: http://soundcloud.com/thisispale/night-time-remix (or click the download arrow below)

This is the 'Pale Bootleg Remix' of The xx's 'Night Time'... Enjoy!

                   

The xx - Night Time (Pále Bootleg Remix) by Pále

Classic! Deep Dish featuring Everything But The Girl - 'The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold)' This song began it's life as an instrumental Deep Dish single in 1996 called 'Stay Gold' - two years later the vocals of Tracey Thorn were added and it was renamed 'The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold)' and again released as a single - the song was also featured on Everything But The Girl's last album of new material 'Temperamental' in 1999. This is the club classic 'The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold)'... Enjoy!



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SummersRadio™ New Music! Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - 'Everybody's On The Run'/ 'Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me' Former Oasis lead guitarist Noel Gallagher has just released his new single - and his debut full length album - this week! Well, sort of - it's released in the U.K. this week, but for some barbaric reason 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' isn't released here in North America until November 8th. When will the record companies realize that this is the modern world, and when it comes to big name artists they should have a single worldwide release date?! Have they not heard of this new internet fad? I think making people wait for three weeks unnecessarily only encourages some people to download illegally. Anyroad, it's out now - so let's check out a couple songs beyond the singles.

There are two particular tracks on the album that stand out initally for me - as they're a bit more adventurous musically speaking than most - and they just happen to be the opening and closing tracks on the album. Unfortunately UMG (Universal Music Group) has blocked out videos for the album closer 'A Simple Game of Genius' in this part of the world - but here's the first track on 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' - 'Everybody's On The Run' - I like the strings and the vocal choir... Enjoy!



'The Death Of You And Me' was released as the first single from the album in the U.K. on August 19th - however in the rest of the world they opted for 'If I Had A Gun' as the first single - and it was just released last week. In the U.K. they're already on to single number two - 'AKA... What a Life'. Although released digitally on September 9th, it was just released physically on cd single and 7" yesterday in the U.K. I actually perfer the b-side of this single - the gospel styled 'Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me' - another standout track on the album. Once again I like the strings and backing vocals here - and the opening keyboard bits... Enjoy!



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SummersRadio™ New Compilation! Weekend In Amsterdam!

SummersRadio™ New Compilation! Weekend In Amsterdam! Roman Gertz - 'Elastic Mind'/ Dataminions - 'Park'/ Axel Karakasis - 'Waveshaper' Respekt Recordings is a U.K. label started in 2009 by the techno duo Spektre. They've just released their latest compilation called 'Mutual Respekt: Weekend In Amsterdam' today! The compilation features seven brand new tracks and is released in celebration of the Amsterdam Dance Event - an annual electronic music conference that started in 1996.

              

I haven't been to Amsterdam yet - but I suspect that it will be to my liking when I do go - as the city seems to have a fondess for both fine weed and fine techno! This is a very solid release - all seven songs are expertly produced specimens of peak hour techno madness - it's Monday night but it feels like weekend again just listening to 'Weekend In Amsterdam'!

I couldn't choose just one song to feature - or two - so today we have a threesome of sorts. Let's begin with the second track on the compilation - 'Elastic Mind' from Roman Gertz... Enjoy!



Now that Roman Gertz has made your mind elastic... I hear some music coming from over there in the park - let's go check it out! I like the name Dataminions - being a big fan of the word 'minion' itself - this is 'Park' - the fourth track on the new 'Weekend In Amsterdam' compilation. I like the disco influence about one minute in... Enjoy!



Do we have time for one more? Yes. Let's wrap up at the beginning - with track one on 'Weekend In Amsterdam' - just released today! (and currently available exclusively on Beatport) This is Axel Karakasis - 'Waveshaper'... Enjoy!




               

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SummersRadio™ New Music! Cassettes Won't Listen!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Cassettes Won't Listen - 'Ordinary World' From one new unexpected cover to another - yesterday we featured Sophie Ellis-Bextor's fun new Arcade Fire cover - and today we have the new Cassettes Won't Listen single - a cover of Duran Duran's 'Ordinary World'!

Cassettes Won't listen is basically the one man electronic project of Brooklyn's Jason Drake. He released his third full length album called 'Evinspacey' in June of this year - and 'Ordinary World' is his first new material since then - released earlier this week on the Daylight Curfew label. (available on itunes)

'Ordinary World' was first released by Duran Duran as the leadoff single from their 1993 comeback album - which was self titled but largely known as 'The Wedding Album'. The song became their first single to reach the top ten in both the U.K. and the U.S. in five years - since their 80's heyday.

Cassettes Won't Listen's cover of 'Ordinary World' - like yesterday's 'Rebellion (Lies)' - is quite faithful to the original. This version is also more electronic - with perhaps a dreamier vocal sound... Enjoy!



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SummersRadio™ New Music! Sophie Ellis-Bextor!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Sophie Ellis-Bextor - 'Rebellion (Lies)' Sophie Ellis-Bextor's latest song is an Arcade Fire cover! Sophie Ellis-Bextor has come a long way since fronting the Britpop band theaudience in the late 90's - she's had nine top 20 hits in the U.K. (including her club hits with Spiller and Freemasons) and she's released four studio albums. Her latest song is a track on the new charity compilation called 'Songs To Save A Life: In Aid Of Samaritans' - which is available on itunes now.

The 'Songs To Save A Life: In Aid Of Samaritans' album features 11 tracks - a mix of both new material and covers - by a diverse range of U.K. artists. The Samaritans are a support network in the U.K. and Ireland that has over 200 branches - in addition to a 24 hour helpline - that is run entirely by trained volunteers. Their goal is to give people someone to talk to when they're struggling to cope - and to help reduce the number of suicides in the U.K.

I didn't know what to expect when I first gave this song a listen - a cover of Arcade Fire's 2005 single 'Rebellion (Lies)' from their debut album 'Funeral'. It's not a full on dance cover - it's actually pretty faithful to the original - but the music is certainly more electronic. What I really love in this version (aside from Sophie's beautiful voice of course) is the wicked snare drum sound and disco style hi-hats that start about one minute in (with the bass/ guitar it sounds almost New Order-ish!) and also the keyboard bits in the last minute or so.

So I was surprised to hear about this cover - but the even better surprise is how good it really is - she really brings out the fun in this 'Funeral' track! :) This is Sophie Ellis-Bextor's new cover of 'Rebellion (Lies)'... Enjoy!




                  

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SummersRadio™ New Music! Sam Paganini!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Sam Paganini - 'Cobra'/ 'Phantom' Italy's Sam Paganini has released a new topnotch EP called 'Cobra' on the Plus 8 Records label. Choosing which of the four songs from it to post has proved to be a challenge though - as all four are very solid well produced dance tracks that you can enjoy losing yourself in! I've chosen my two favorites so far - let's begin with the title track - this is 'Cobra'... Enjoy!



This is track three on Sam Paganini's new 'Cobra EP' - currently available exclusively on Beatport http://www.beatport.com/#release/cobra-ep/688687 - this is 'Phantom'... Enjoy!



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SummersRadio™ Delay Trees!

SummersRadio™ Delay Trees - 'Gold' Try as I may, of course no one can always be one of the first to hear about every great new band or song - it's not mathematically possible! Sometimes music drifts your way at it's own pace - perhaps when the timing is just right. Such is the case with Finland's Delay Trees - they released their self titled debut full length album here in North America on the Friendly Fire Recordings label in May - but I've only recently discovered them.

You can learn more about Delay Trees from their official website here: http://www.delaytrees.com/
and/ or on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/delaytrees?sk=app_178091127385#!/delaytrees

'Gold' is the first track of ten on their album - it's a beautiful song featuring some wonderful wall of sound style production and great lyrics to match:

GOLD
Gold come in
Take over and lift up my arms
Change my name
The pain slowly pouring into the night
I walk in
Darling, you said something in me wasn't right
Light comes clear through sky
And for years I know I've been blind

This is Delay Trees - 'Gold'... Enjoy!




             

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