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This is straight from Waste unedited — remixers grab your Abletons and get ready.
To celebrate this week’s single release (we still have those in England) Radiohead have broken up the song ‘Nude’ into pieces for you to remix.
For those of you who enjoy this sort of thing, you can buy the separate components or ’stems’ (bass, voice, guitar, strings/FX and drums) and remix your own version of the song. You can do this by adding your own beats and instrumentation or just remixing the original parts. More information here: http://www.radioheadremix.com/information/
You can buy the stems here: http://www.radioheadremix.com/buy/
You can upload your finished mixes here http://www.radioheadremix.com and be judged and even voted on by ‘the public’.
You can also create a widget allowing votes from your own website, Facebook or MySpace page to be sent through too.
Hope you enjoy it
For those of you who aren’t that way inclined, Nude is also available in its entirety on CD and 7 inch (UK release) at the usual retail outlets.
If you know about the various houses left in the wake of this bloke named Jack, you must have been to the house Mark Farina built. His Mushroom Jazz series is the stuff of legend, but on the tremendously promising new effort Fabric 40: Mark Farina, we see Farina elegantly returning to the house he started building at his core — the one built during his early residency at famed Chicago underage hotspot Medusa; the years digging for vinyl at Gramaphone, all the while rubbing elbows with masters of the Chicago house music scene — Derrick Carter, Ralphie Rosario, J Dub, DJ Heather.
Farina’s charisma behind the turntables lies in his ability to integrate styles that aren’t always inherently cohesive. His version of house music blends his famed huge party soundscapes with the intimate “back room” grooves he loves so much. “When making the mix,” Farina says, “I played a sort of fictitious set at fabric on a night that doesn’t exist. Musically, I tried to capture the techy, jackin’ Chicago/SF side of the house spectrum - dubby, chunky tracks. I picked a good variation of underground goodies, a lot of which are unreleased or hopefully not on any other compilations. Tracks that have a good ’shelf life’ but that aren’t proven hits; hidden gems that might go over looked in this fast paced music era.”
Fabric 40: Mark Farina adds another worthwhile chapter to the ongoing legacies of both Fabric and Farina. Attention must be paid.
Frank Solano - The Blues Line (Tommy Largo Remix)
Fabric 40: Mark Farina can be pre-ordered from Amazon By Clicking Here.
Guess what, readers? I’m about to break my own rule and copy/paste a press release! But, it’s because I’m headed off to GRAMMY Career Day. Regardless, enjoy this remix from Cassettes Wont Listen (which in this remix, reminds me a lot of The Postal Service..), I did.
Cassettes Wont Listen - Paper Float (Styrofoam X911 Remix)
Cassettes Won’t Listen’s “Paper Float” Gets Remixed By Styrofoam, Mad Decent (Diplo and DJA), Blockhead, Maker, Aarron LaCrate, Scott Thorough & More
Small-Time Machine EP Due March 11th 2008 / One Alternative Free EP Up To
10,000 Downloads Out Now On www.cassetteswontlisten.com
Tomorrow At Club Europa in Greenpoint Brooklyn 11 PM
Cassettes Won’t Listen is giving away one remix a week for the next month. First is by German Producer, Styrofoam (The Notwist, Lali Puna, Ben Gibbard, American Analog Set, and more) and there will be a new remix posted each week via his myspace page. Upcoming remixes are from Mad Decent (Diplo and DJA), Blockhead, Maker, Aaron LaCrate, Scott Thorough, and more.
When Jason Drake isn’t writing his electronic pop gems as Cassettes Won’t Listen, he can be found in the Def Jux offices where he is the Director of Marketing. Jason has been involved with the leading indie hip hop label since 2001, just as Aesop Rock’s Labor Days was hitting record store shelves. While Cassettes Won’t Listen is informed by hip hop, the lyrics and voice of Jason are transcendent.
And on March 11th, Cassettes Wont Listen’s will release Small-Time Machine, his first ever physical release. Entirely written, played and produced by Jason Drake, Small-Time Machine deals with many of the themes that touch us all, including: love, betrayal, hope, disappointment and the quest to find what’s missing in each of our lives. Small-Time Machine is the next chapter in the career of one of the true new voices of the 21st Century.
Cassettes Won’t Listen has had two digital-only releases, the EP Nobody’s Moving and the instrumental LP The Quiet Trial. Both records have received a lot of attention, including radio tastemakers WOXY and KEXP, SPIN, the NY Press, the notorious Perez Hilton as well as landing an exclusive front page feature on Myspace.com and being named one of Urb’s Next 100 for 2007.
In the wake of these releases, a wide range of artists, commissioned countless Cassettes Won’t Listen remixes, including El-P, (featuring Trent Reznor), Midlake, Asobi Seksu, The Postmarks, Dr. Octagon, Pela, Dirty on Purpose, Mr. Lif, and Morcheeba, amongst others.
Cassettes Won’t Listen embodies an otherworldly and distinctive blend of electronica and indie rock, with comparisons being drawn to the Postal Service, Beck, Hot Chip, The Notwist, and DJ Shadow. His live show blasts at a frantic pace with Jason hopping from turntables to guitar to keys and vocals as a true one-man band. Small-Time Machine is the sum of all these parts.
The free One Alternative covers EP of great 90’s tunes from Cassettes Won’t Listen is up to 7,500 downloads and still going strong. Tracklist includes songs by Pavement, Butter 08, Blind Melon, Liz Phair, and Sebadoh, and as an added bonus it features full instrumentals and acapellas so you can get your 90’s love remix thing on.
Small-Time Machine Tracklisting:
1. Metronomes
2. Large Radio
3. Paper Float
4. Freeze and Explode
5. The Broadcast
6. Two Kids
7. The Finish Line
