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.

SXNE

Things are looking up, speaking in a strictly topographical manner, of course (pun damn well intended). Groovy things are happening a' plenty. Such as the release of Ratatat's fourth (that's 4) studio album, in early june. Well, that's about it, really. But what's to say we shouldn't stay uppy? There have been plenty pseudo interesting things going on as well, like that weird Kronofonika project, with those two freakishly untalented (topographically speaking, that is) individuals taking turns to deliver tracks each and every day. Juggling that with study and work, well hey, that can't be difficult at all. I strenuously imagine them working like feverish little ants in front of their computers to piece everything together. And that fantasy leads me to the scene in Oldboy where the leading actress has visions of loneliness embodied by riding a subway with only a single ant, peering sideways at the obscene structure. One of my favorite scenes out of a movie, ever, I think.

Korean cinema really is booming, in terms of creativity. Right now I'd say it's the very most edgy moviemaking industry in that aspect. Even though Korean movies usually are amazingly violent and bloody affairs, it is never without a sense of satirical or deeper purpose that a knife is plunged into someones chest. And never has stupid-villain syndrome ever touched the minds of Korean filmmakers, "thank" fuckin' "christ" for that.

Korean music, though, I don't know much about. I think the guys over at Kronofonika generally are more interesting when you touch on that particular subject.

Kolthrast and 253, are the pseudonym's of Kronofonika's resident master cooks of audial delight. They might come off as a tad pretentious, when they're able to cram down a single beat into a 2 hour track, expecting us to listen to all of it. But they're nice people, though. No, really. Leading them off into our topogaphic sunset, will be their own musical works. Take it away!

253 - Yamaha Handy Sound HS-200 First Session

Kolthrast - Sunday Roast