Know who’s the fucking man? FELIX CARTAL, all caps, is the fucking man.

Cartal is a child of France but his affinity for his second home, Canada is strong. In his newest work, Felix Cartal pays homage to the city where he lived and partied and was undoubtedly inspired. The track is ‘Vancouver’, which bookends his previous track, ‘Montreal Dreams’.

MP3: Felix Cartal - Vancouver

By Sea, Land, and Air, (and Dance Music) We Prosper (Vancover’s new and improved motto).

Our friends at Trash Menagerie have an interview with Felix Cartal where you can pick up ‘Montreal Dreams’ at 96kbps. If you’re thirsty for more info, there’s an earlier interview at Floukids.

Felix’s catalog between his 2006 debut and now is small but immense. The most recent favorite here at Missingtoof, is the B-side to Moving Units recent ‘Crash ‘N’ Burn Victims’ single on So Sweet Records, which we put up a while back.

So what other remixes has Felix laced? Try on MSTRKRFT, Dragonette, and a surprising very (very) favorite remix of Ashlee Simpson. Now, as Felix notes in the aforementioned interview, he does have a thing for female pop vocals, so his Britney Spears remix was an apt follow up.

What to do when you love them all and can’t decide? All or nothing, baby.

MP3: MSTRKRFT - The Looks (Felix Cartal Remix)

MP3: Dragonette - Take It Like a Man (Felix Cartal Remix)

MP3: Ashlee Simpson - L.O.V.E (Felix Cartal Remix)

MP3: Britney Spears - Outrageous (Felix Cartal Remix)

Oh man, that’s fresh. Let’s go overkill and pile on the Felix Cartal. Dude should be all caps at all times. This is large. From oldest to newest, let’s indulge further:

MP3: Felix Cartal - Distrosex

MP3: Felix Cartal - Decadanse

MP3: Felix Cartal - Moss vs. Tree

MP3: Felix Cartal - Drugs

MP3: Felix Cartal - Parisienne

MP3: Felix Cartal - Drugs (Hostage Remix)

Which reminds me, how sick is Scotland’s Hostage? Felix Cartal, in his globetrotting, has recently settled in Scotland and clicked up with his electro-fied kindred spirit. A remix is a beautiful thing.

Also see All Night Dance Party, if you’re observant you’ll figure out why (Also see our All Night Dance Party archive).

Felix Cartal on MySpace.
Even more that’s not here in our Felix Cartal archive.

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At this point you should be no stranger to L.A.’s Royal Rumble gang—the three-man no-holds-barred tag-team party posse.

I was having dinner with Dan Rumble, of RR fame, the other night when he told me he had the goods—a DJ friendly edit of Soulwax’s ‘Miserable Girl’ that takes the hypest elements of ‘Miserable girl’ and prolongs that feeling of electro-euphoria.

MP3: Soulwax - Miserable Girl (Royal Rumble Edit)

And ’cause this track was melodic and perfect to begin with, a rip from the original, the brilliant, Soulwax ‘Nite Versions’ 12″:

MP3: Soulwax - Miserable Girl

And lastly, something we’ve posted before, but damn if it doesn’t deserve one more go around—the Rumble’s remix of ‘Damn Girl’ by Kid Sister. Shit is dialtone, son! (’Cause it’s off the hook!).

MP3: Kid Sister - Damn Girl (Royal Rumble Hall of Fame Remix)

Royal Rumble throws down the club bangers like suplexes tonight at the grand opening of GET LOW, L.A.’s newest Wednesday weekly at the massive dance club, Crash Mansion L.A.. It happens alongside other friends Paul V. (archive), Luvtek (archive), and Classixx (formerly known as Young Americans).

Can’t make it to GET LOW tonight? Try catching Royal Rumble, Justice, Peaches, Uberzone, Whitey and more at Hard NYE festival in Downtown LA this New Years Eve. Guaranteed good times.

Visit Royal Rumble at MySpace.
Send love notes to Soulwax at MySpace or their official Soulwax.com.

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Villains have officially taken over the blogger’nets. Starting with yrs truly, the villany spread to Good Weather for Airstirkes, BlocParty.net and on down the line.

As promised in the introduction earlier this month, more Villains coming at you. Today we have their first mix, ‘Vol. 1′ for your speakers. So, crank ‘em up and get an earful of this electro set that the Villains “can almost call … a ‘classic’ mix wrapping up what was hot for 2007″.

This mix is atypical for an electro set for two reasons: First, it has an emcee, LA’s own D’n'B champ, Whiskey Pete, who spikes the beat-punch with a few shots of party raps. Second, the Villains can cut a mean record and they bring that turntabilsm to the table—or pair of turntables as it were.

‘Vol. 1′ is also one of the few places you’ll hear the mastered version of the Justice’s ‘DVNO’, LA Riots remix—that will be appearing on an upcoming Ed Banger EP.

Tracklist

1. Justice ft. Simian Mobile Disco - We Are Your Friends
2. Villains - Thrilla
3. Kraak & Smaak - Money In The Bag (Sharam Jey Remix)
4. Blamma! Blamma! - Carry Me Home
5. Micha Moor - Music Is Dope
6. Sneaky Sound System - Pictures (Tonite Only Remix)
7. Stanton Warriors ft. The Beatnuts - Shake it Up
8. Does it Offend You, Yeah? - We Are Rockstars
9. Mystery Jets - Diamonds in the Dark (LA Riots Remix)
10. Wolfmother - Woman (MSTRKRFT Remix) [tease]
11. Villains - Rock It
12. Justice - D.V.N.O. (LA Riots Remix)
13. SebastiAn - Ross, Ross, Ross
14. Le Castle Vania - Trouble in Daylight (LA Riots Remix)
15. Digitalism - Idealistic (Original Mix)
16. Bloc Party - Hunting for Witches (Villains Electro Banger Remix)
17. Daft Punk - Harder Faster Stronger (Deadmau5 Edit)
18. Chicken Lips - He Not In (Vandalism Club Mix)
19. MSTRKRFT - Street Justice [tease]
20. Superbass - Don’t Be Silent (Workidz Remix)
21. Subsource - This Town (Hook & Sling Remix)
22. N’fa - Get Doh (Frew Remix)
23. Aquasky Ft. Acafool - Have a Good Time (Original Mix)
24. Noisia - Gutterpump (Original Mix)
25. Sgt Slick, Pitch Dark - Automatic Machine (Vandalism Remix)
26. Micha Moor - Space (Klass Club Remix)
27. Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (Original Mix) [tease]
28. Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name (SebastiAn’s Late Night Laptop Edit)

MP3: Villains - Vol. 1 [47:38 / 73MB]

Superman is dead! Long live Villains!

Because I love these other tracks so much, you get them again! Download, listen, love & share. The Bloc Party remix is the best thing evarrr.

MP3: Bloc Party - Hunting for Witches (Villains Electro-Banger Remix)

MP3: Villains - Thrilla

MP3: Villains - Rock It

LA/OC, join the darkside! See Villains at Trust on Saturday, Dec. 8th (located at Proof Bar in Santa Ana) alongside their partners in crime, LA Riots and Atlanta’s party-captain Treasure Fingers.

Check even more Villains dates on their calendar at Villains’ MySpace.

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The Under The Covers column returns! We’ve slowly been collecting more cover songs that run the gamut from awesome to odd to awful. All varieties are worth hearing! Listen in awe or disdainful laughter.

30 Seconds to Mars covers Kanye West’s ‘Stronger’ live on BBC Radio 1. This falls into the laughable category even though frontman Jared Leto delivers the vocals so earnestly. They saved the Daft Punk vocals, so don’t expect any. I’d be rolling if they tried.

MP3: 30 Seconds to Mars - Stronger (Kayne West cover)

Ontario’s hardcore rockers Fucked Up covering Justice’s ‘Stress’ a few months back. Fucking awesome.

MP3: Fucked Up - Stress (Justice cover)

File this under fantastic, I first heard do this Pink Floyd cover at last month’s Vegoose festival and was very impressed. Not many groups can come close to a classic, but the The Shins do.

MP3: The Shins - Breathe (Pink Floyd Cover)

The Lemonheads folk-rock version of Misfits‘ Danzig-era punk classic ‘Skulls’. Fucking ‘ardcore!

MP3: The Lemonheads - Skulls (Misfits cover)

And in that same vein, this Zwan (Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame’s 2001-2003 project) cover of Metal gods Iron Maiden on ‘Mark of the Beast’. Probably one of my favorite covers comes at you from the Spun soundtrack.

MP3: Zwan - Number of the Beast (Iron Maiden cover)

Next up, Lightspeed Champion covering The Beatles immortal John Lennon. Lightspeed Champion is Devonte Hynes or just “Dev”, formerly of thrash-rap-punk group Test Icicles. Test Icicles remains one of my favorite things ever. I seriously moaned and writhed while morning the death of the Test Icicles last year. But the musicians live on! Dev maintains a blog at TheWorldForgot.com, there he puts up a great many home recordings—quite different from Test Icicles, but great in a whole new way:

MP3: Lightspeed Champion - Better Off Dead (Elton John cover)

Ladytron getting sexy R’n'B’d out covering Tweet’s slut-anthem ‘Oops (Oh My)’. Y’all remember this original? With the Timbaland beat and Missy Elliot doin’ backup vocals? This cover appeared as a b-side on their ‘Evil’ single:

MP3: Ladytron - Oops (Oh My) (Tweet cover)

And, perhaps, saving the best for last, three Radiohead covers of The Smiths, New Order, and Björk in a recent live webcast on their Dead Air Space promoting their newest LP, In Rainbows:

MP3: Radiohead - The Headmaster Ritual (The Smiths cover)

MP3: Radiohead - Ceremony (New Order cover)

MP3: Radiohead - Unravel (Bjork cover)

The covers are king sized! We got covers for days so expect more ‘Under the Covers’ posts soon.

You want more now?! Peep our archive for the tag-word ‘Cover’.

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London kids, Dead Kids are absolutely one of our favorite indie rock acts out now, and it doesn’t hurt that they’re having some top-shelf remixes done to their most popular, ‘Fear and Fluoride’, which is slated for release this upcoming Monday, November 19th on Salvia:

MP3: Dead Kids - Fear and Fluoride

A strong showing of remixes have been churned out by some of our favorite peoples including Shy Child who you can read up on in our Shy Child archive, the oft-mentioned Lillica Libertine who we can’t post enough of, and some new favorites, Prague producers Re:ply!, French producers We Are Not Ghetto Kids and a mysterious ‘Rio Remix’ that I just can’t place.

MP3: Dead Kids - Fear and Fluoride (Shy Child Remix)

MP3: Dead Kids - Fear and Fluoride (Lillica Libertine’s Tried and Tested Remix)

MP3: Dead Kids - Fear and Fluoride (Re:ply! Ruff Remix)

MP3: Dead Kids - Fear and Fluoride (We Are Not Ghetto Kids Remix)

MP3: Dead Kids - Fear and Fluoride (Rio Remix)

Wow. Monster remixes!

The government’s been putting that mind-control fluoride in the water for years. It’s how they get us to willingly pay parking tickets and watch FOX News. We’ve never been afraid of losing a tooth or five, but we are afraid of mind-control! Listen to the songs above and don’t drink the water!

Let me leave you with one more original that shows what other tricks the Dead Kids can pull off:

MP3: Dead Kids - Wires

Visit Dead Kids on MySpace.

Pre-order the ‘Fear and Fluoride’ on Rough Trade.

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