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Sébastien Tellier – L’Amour et la Violence (Acid Washed Land of Daktari Remix)

Shinichi Osawa & team up to create this monster of a track – bang it out loud. They take parts of Shinichi’s remix of Cazals’ “Poor Innocent Boys” which samples that falling noisy synth from Human Resources’ “Dominator” and throw in a little breakdown from Shinichi’s cover of “Star Guitar” – and presto – a banger of a track.

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Shinichi Osawa & Nima Tahmasebi – Kyouki

You know the drill. Nighty Max = awesome. Download, play, dance, repeat.

I love the sample and when it kicks in Nighty mixes it up and throws you off just a bit but in a totally good way.

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Nighty Max – Beach Hut

Tyondai is channeling his Leonard Bernstein on this tune – love it.

I’m only a fan of Metronomy remixes, like the Breakbot and the Diskjokke remixes. Joakim revises Metronomy’s new track “Not Made for Love” – he is quite bold by starting the track off upbeat and slowing it down – I feel like that is a ballsy and blasphemous thing to do with a dance track, but he pulls it off. I’m a big fan of what Joakim has been doing lately – looking forward to more stuff.

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Metronomy – Not Made for Live (Joakim Remix)

Cheers, 20 Jazz Funk Greats

Here is a live unreleased track from Phoenix that they played at the Southside festival in 2005, Jetplane. It was slated to be on It’s Never Been Like That but didn’t make the cut. It is definitely a different vibe for them and a b-side sounding track. Thomas Hedlund (drums) channels his Steward Copeland at some points in the tune to give it a very Police-y sound. Thoughts?

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Phoenix – Jetplane (Unreleased – Live @ Southside 2005)

Cheers, Nightmagnets

When is Das Pop releasing their album?! We shall never know. Until then enjoy this demo version of the first single off the album “Never Get Enough”. A 7″ of the single will be out sometime in October. Das good.

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Das Pop – Never Get Enough (Demo)

Music video after the jump.

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Fake Blood works his production magic on The Gossip – I love the reverse piano, dark stuff.

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The Gossip – Love Long Distance (Fake Blood Remix)

Warp20 keeps getting better and better – Jamie Lidell has been added as the surprise guest at Le Poisson Rouge and free performances by Hudson Mohawke and Clark. I cannot wait! 🙂

Sam, the official Asian Dan intern was able to wrangle Australia’s own, Gloves to put together this 25 min minimix for the b-log as well as answer a few short questions. I sure do love me my Australian bands and producer/DJs.

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Download: Asian Dan Presents Gloves “House of Octavia Minimix”

Asian Dan Interview: GLOVES

1. Who is GLOVES? How would you describe your music?

Gloves is me, Yama Indra. I also have wealth of talented friends that I collaborate on tracks with sometimes. A lot of the originals I have coming up feature contributions from friends. Up until now it’s been almost all disco & house orientated dance music, I have some new material I’ll be releasing later in the year though, there’ll be more dance music but there’s also some pop, soundtrack & RnB influenced tracks.

2. What are your influences, musical or otherwise? What are your first
musical memories?

Musically I have been into just about every genre at one time or another. Over the last year I’ve been listening to mainly RnB (old & new), 70’s Jazz, 70’s Psych & as always a lot of disco & house music. \
Other influences? Well I love giallo films, good food, playing tennis on Wednesday’s with Melbourne’s pop/disco/house mafia, traveling, thunderstorms, swimming, adventure & of course hanging tough with my
girlfriend & pals. The very first musical memory I can recall involved my sisters & I performing a dance & karaoke routine to Madonna ‘Material Girl’ in for our parents & their friends on a camping trip. I think we also did Poison’s ‘Nothing but a good Time’ & Michael Jackson’s ‘BAD’. Pretty lame huh. That & spending endless hours learning classical pieces on the family piano.

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