Jaffinson, one of three finalists in the Birdy Nam Nam remix competition. This one is really dark, and I love the echo synth thingy, which Donovan used in the Sebastian Tellier remix aswell and more famously Timbaland on the JT track.. Whatever that sound is called. Timbaland prolly stole from a Polish police-officer who made it in his basement trying to express his creativity anyway.. So.. Fuck you Timbaland.

And I do believe it’s time to change the layout of this blog, it has felt half-done from the start. Not the graphics, but the whole sha-bom.

Birdy Nam Nam – THE PARACHUTE ENDING (Jaffinson Remix)

And Mustard Pimp made a real banger again of the Dem Franchize Boys, holy mother.

Dem Franchize Boyz – I Think They Like Me (Mustard Pimp Remix)

I’m a bit behind on my emails, but I’ll try to go thru them all and listen. Gonna take a long time.

Here we have two remixes by Fredrick Carlsson, who made one of my favourite remixes this year, which was the Hammarin & Robin one. Awesome, I danced and cried to that one. Almost. Should’ve shat, pissed and bled aswell and it’ve would’ve been epic. ^^

It’s fresh to hear lyrics in Swedish on the Jonathan Johansson track. I feel so distant to Sweden since I moved to Helsinki, I used to listen to Swedish music and travel to Sweden several times a year. Anyway, I love Fredrick Carlssons remixes and what he does with them. It feels a bit club technoy but holds it down, so it doesn’t get too unpersonal. It’s really beautiful what he does.

Jonathan Johansson – En hand i himlen (En fot i graven remix av Fredrick Carlsson)

They Live By Night – Ctrl+Alt+Del My Heart (Fredrick Carlsson Remix)

Golau Glau is a British act that are fond of cats. She’s (I think it’s only one person) new on the scene and sent me over a track called Summer Games. And true, I can imagine people (Like myself) sitting down on a patch of grass after a festival and feeling deep and listening to this. It’s Indie, a bit Folkish and a bit Electro.. And a bit weird. And we like weird.. Always.

She’s got a blog and a Myspace. Cool.

Golau Glau – Summer Games

Woo! Love great music! I really do. Seb is a london-based singer and producer making electro-pop with a hint of soul, think Daft Punk, George Michael and Everything But The Girl.

This remix of his track News For You is done by Stockholm Syndrome and it’s dancy, arppegiatory and sweet. Take a listen.

And I would like to tell y’all that Alan Wilkis, who made the awesome Phoenix remix, has a album of his own out now. He’s been working on it like crazy and got in some awesome guest-artists on it, like Asobi Seksu, TV On The Radio and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Seriously.. I’m about to listen to his album, ’cause that Phoenix remix was the best I’ve heard in ages. Fucking genious I tell you. Buy it here, and be one of the first to support this prodigy.

Seb – News For You (Stockholm Syndrome Remix)

WOW! I’m impressed by No Device, I don’t know wether to cry or dance!? Once in a while I get really fascinated by tracks I get sent to me, this is one of them. The spacious sound I would best explain as emotional electro with so many influences (if any) it’s making my head spin. This is truly great music. Please readers, check this band out and weld their name stuck to your musical memory, ’cause this will be epic.

No Device have made remixes.. Most recently one of Hungry Kids from Hungary, but concentrates most on their own stuff. And I salute your for that No Device. One more track close to this stature and I’ll personally knight you to Sirs No Device, Kings Of Epic Tracks.

No Device – We Were Lions

What a lovely surprise I came home to. I’ll explain. I called my handy-man before I left on my 2 week vacation and said “there some water dripping down from the ceiling in the bathroom, it’s not much but it might be some pipe lose or something”.. He answered “Yes. I’ll check it out and call you if there’s something wrong”

And when I opened my door up to my flat, a big fucking container blocked up the whole hallway, my jackets dirty from dust.. And the floor, the toilet, ceiling and the walls removed in the bathroom. A.k.a my whole bathroom crushed and removed and on top of that the water was turned off. So I couldn’t take a shit or piss.

But the worst of it was that they didn’t even bother to call me or anything. Good work. I’m getting used to bad luck now, it seems as if it has followed me thru my life. Shit happens a lot to me. Above average anyway, I’m can find happiness in knowing that I don’t have any horrible decease. But with my luck I prolly already have Aids and Cancer.

Burns has this great original track, I wonder if the guitars are sampled from some old classic?! Housey and a lovely bassline to make a great summer track.

And and.. I would like to have you attention on one thing. I get a lot of mail from different people wanting their “thing” promoted and what-nots. But Gogoyoko actually seems like a good thing, and the more people using it the merrier for everyone. It’s meant to wipe out the middleman, aka the one grabbing the money from the artists themselves. Ooooh, I’m shivering just thinking of big companies like Sony, Virgin and BMG going out of business because people have a choice now. The range of music and it’s diversity are so vast now, God bless teh internetz.

*gogoyoko is social music marketplace, where you can buy your music
directly from the artists.*

gogoyoko provides signed and unsigned artists with the opportunity to
access the worldwide music market – without having to go through a
middleman.

    * Artists set the price for their music, get *100%* *of the sales
      profit*, plus extra revenue based on streaming of their music.
    * Artists a provided with a tool to connect with their fans -
      promote, distribute and sell their releases & live shows all over
      the world.
    * Record labels, and therefore signed artists, are provided with the
      same deal.

Burns – Heartbeats (Extended Mix)

White Lies – Death (Burns Remix)

SMOKED SALMONZ! I’m back. You know, if someone told you to walk a dog everyday for 2 years straight, you would at some point want a break from walking it right? You love the dog to death and hug it and shit. But some times that love need a break. Which I did with this blog. It’s much like a relation between a family dog and the person taking care of it. You get the simile I’m getting at right?

Anyway, I had a blast with my family and friends. Until the creeping angst came a’crawling up my spine like a bad fever, grabbing my core and holding my passions and love down in a strangehold down on the floor, crushing my dreams.. Comparing my soul to the ones beside me in the club, forcing me to become one with the concrete, the grey “in-between”. Crushing every sense to the limit, making me listen to 2pac’s California Love and Alice Cooper.. And Pras’ Ghetto Superstar when I wanted atleast Human League or Pet Shop Boys.

And concerning my club-nights I organized, I’ll give you a saying which I told my aunt.. “It’s hard to a revive one that has been dead for years”. I enjoyed myself and succeeded somewhat what I came to do. The performers and those who helped were awesome. A big thank you to them. The biggest compliments came from the oldest punk in hometown (who hates electro) and a artist, which I don’t know the name of. They were both drunk. But I felt what they were saying. They truly appreciated what I was trying to accomplish. But what can we blame in the end? the festival that was organized on the same dates? Or the apathy in people?

Punks or electro-fags.. Really, there’s not that a big of a difference. I come from a background in punk/hardcore.. Same shit went down there, we (or I) wanted to create a feeling, a experience that is different from the world outside the venue-doors, a fantasy-world.. Or what I perceive to be the real world. A world were spontaneity is key, were passion can flourish. Anyway..

Maybe I’m taking this a bit too seriously. But then again, I’m a dreamer. Someone that wants more. Thank you, Elvis has left the building.

Afghan Raiders bitches. Best shit ever.

Afghan Raiders – Admiralss Doorbell

Afghan Raiders – Morphine Dream

I’m on my “Vacation”, since I’m the only one working on this blog, there won’t be any regular posts until after midsummer. Enjoy these tracks for now, they’ll keep you happy for a while ^^. Thank you Binary, Nightwaves and Snow Picnic.

NightWaves – Invincible

NightWaves – Invincible (Snow Picnic Remix)

Aaaaah! I’m screaming like a little girl!!! I’m still pissed of for missing Fukkk Offf here in Helsinki a few months back. Was I hungover again? Might have been.

Anyway, Fukkk Offf debutalbum will be/or is released now/or in a near future. It’s called Love Me Hate Me Kiss Me Kill Me.

Here’s two tracks from the album. Thank you Coco Machete, you are the bomb. Here’s the album on beatport.

Fukkk Offf – LMHMKSKM

Fukkk Offf – More Than Friends

When was the last time we ever heard anything sung in German? Was it Nena’s 99 Luftballons? The Hoff?

Strandhotel Markus‘ Disco! Disco! is no disco I would want to visit, it’s Indie, it’s Swizz, it’s a bit gloomy and noizy. But it’s interesting, I’ll give you that. Youth took Strandhotel Markus’ track and made it perfect for my blog-house ears. It’s laid-back and romantic. Sweet.

Strandhotel Markus – Disco! Disco! (Youth Remix)