Something different

Lists are by their definition an act in redundancy, except when they break from the norm. So I've been thinking, people make far too few lists concerning their favorite remixes (that might be a total fallacy but, yeah), so that's what I'll do. I won't list the remixes that make for the greatest floor burners, but rather a list of the remixes that are able to lend something completely new to a really good song, making it a great track in it's own right. It won't be a top 20 list, like last time, and it won't be a top 10 neither, and damn it, it won't be a top 5 either. I'll be going with a top 6, because I like to be different.

#1 Björk - Wanderlust (Ratatat Remix)

Every man who says that he's not in some small way in love with Björk is a liar, simply put. The intermingling of the world's coolest person (that's Björk) and Ratatat's glorious sound makes for just about the greatest remix I've ever heard.

#2 Florence and the Machine - You've Got the Love (The xx Remix)

Everything The XX does seems to be golden at a very high level. Pristine, if you will. Same goes for this remix. The love is so totally, unmistakably mine.

#3 Pantha Du Prince - Welt Am Draht (Animal Collective Remix)

It could not have gone anyone by that I'm a huge fan of Animal Collective. But this is really the only remix of theirs that I've ever come by. By the hammer of Thor, they're certainly no worse off in this respect.

#4 Friendly Fires - Kiss of Life (Spiral Into the Storm Remix)

Lunging it's way on for 9 minutes of Frindly Fires goodness, this track just can't, shan't, won't be missed. It's good stuff.

#5 Tunes United - Celestial ("Molested" by Unarmed Enemies)

This might be the song I've listened the most too, in my entire life. And that's saying something. It's just always been there, from the day that I got my first iPod, onto todays supercomputer/phone/pornographic imgage distributor that's reffered to as an iPhone. To me it's synonomous with love, life and apples. Apples most of all.

#6 Telex - Moskow Diskow (Carl Craig Remix)

"Moskow Diskow, Miskow Doskow". If that's not the best songwriting ever, well I'll be a son of a gun. I just very recently heard this remix, though I can safely say that it's at least as good an alternative as it's original mix for that exclusive soup buffé that you invite all your friends over for. It's slower and more ponderous than the original. I like.

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On a slight sidenote, The opera produced by The Knife is just fantastic.

The reason to multiply.

I feel reinvigorated to some degree. Which can only conclude in the hilariously defective act of tribulating you all with a blog post. Oh, and the summer winds sway. Sway you closer, closer to me.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the new caretaker of one of my many Celebrity crushes. Or should I say, actor crushes? I'd like to say that I attribute my feelings to his acting prowess, which is why I need the title, if only to regress any form of self delusion.

How then, is it that I deify this person to such an extent that I would divulge my deviant sexuality, you ask?

Ah, that question is mighty easy to answer. It is with utmost reverance I present one of the greatest productions of indie short film comedy, ever to grace my dear eyesockets.

It is on the collaboratory site, Hitrecord.org, that our most regular of Joe's proposes his creative ideas, and the ideas of others to be coupled together into a fine mish mash of, visual and audial, craftsmanship. There the users are welcomed to be creative with what others have made and uploaded. Then when Joe, or one of his partners sees an opportunity to produce the material into a money making product, they jump in to do so with their substantial financial backing. And when the final product is done they give everyone who worked on it a part of the earnings. Sounds like a pretty neat idea to me.

To make matter's even better, here's a song by Animal Collective.

They are simply that good.

Animal Collective - Peacebone