The LAZRtag boys have done it again!
Two super-solid remixes for UK dance-rockers The Ting Tings and German electro-house kings Digitalism… enjoy if ya haven’t already!
MP3: The Ting Tings- Shut Up and Let Me Go (LAZRtag Remix)
MP3: Digitalism- I want I want (LAZRtag Remix)
More LAZRtag in our archives.
Jumping off the shoulders of the last post, we’ve got more brand new heat from Rochester’s Kill The Noise in the form of a remix of London-town R&B diva Estelle’s ‘American Boy’ with raps from Chicago’s finest Kanye West.
Chances are you’ve heard the original, seen the video on MTV or YouTube. Well, kill that noise and give this a spin:
MP3: Estelle - American Boy (feat. Kanye West) (Kill The Noise Remix)
This track has been mixed down a dozen times over. Compare that with these and make the call what you wanna throw down. Remixes from L.A. up-and-comers LAZRtag, the collaborative forces of Bmore hero Dave Nada and VA club kid Matt Nordstrom as Nadastorm, and Sydney’s Tenzin, who’s ‘American Boy’ remix made it to the #1 spot on Hype Machine via Hot Biscuits.
MP3: Estelle - American Boy (feat. Kanye West) (LAZRtag Remix)
MP3: Estelle - American Boy (feat. Kanye West) (Nadastrom Remix)
MP3: Estelle - American Boy (feat. Kanye West) (Tenzin Remix)
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L.A.’s LAZRtag whom we introduced last month have taken on R&B pop superstar Rhianna for some hot remix love. This is where top 40 meets bottom frequency.
I love this track because it taps into a history of music: One of borrowing, sampling, reusing, reinterpreting—’Don’t Stop the Music’ employs Michael Jackson’s famous chant from his ‘Thriller‘ album 1983 single, ‘Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’‘, which was in turn was nicked from Manu Dibango’s 1972 track, ‘Soul Makossa‘, widely regarded as the first (or among the first) disco record ever. This track is a snapshot of music culture today: LAZRtag recomposing a contemporary pop-princess’ track, who borrowed from the ’80s king of pop, who borrowed from the roots of disco, using Manu Dibango’s jazz and traditional Cameroonian music soil. How far we’ve come:
MP3: Rihanna - Don’t Stop the Music (LAZRtag Remix) (2008)
MP3: Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa (Original Long Version) (1972)
Woah!
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Design credit: Electrik SuicideE’rybodys favorite electro thrashers, Crystal Castles, are hitting So. Cal. before taking an aeroplane to tour Europe. All this partying to promote their recent self-titled debut release. We’re stoked to have some some recent Crystal Castles tracks and remixes from L.A.’s LAZRtag (which is one part Luvtek, of ‘Do It At The Disco‘ mixtape fame and one part StellarDRV). LAZRtag have done nice ‘lectro’d up work of ‘Crimewave’, a track that can be fully credited to HEALTH and Crystal Castles as mash-up/remix, now remixed once again.
MP3: Crystal Castles - Crimewave (LAZRtag Remix)
And for the DJs (that’s everybody nowadays, right?), a friendly edit from N.Y.’s FITFORUSE (of ‘That’s Corny!’ mixtape fame).
MP3: Crystal Castles - Good Times (FITFORUSE Edit)
Sample this album cut, ‘Courtship Dating’, a track that we controversially linked to Timbaland’s ‘AYO Technology’ last September. I guess that’s old news by now, so we’ve brought that post back (no longer contraband, we hope). What do you think?
MP3: Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
Buy Crystal Castles debut album on CD or digital download via Amazon.
L.A., come see Crystal Castles tonight, Saturday, April 12th with Guns’n'Bombs and others (as mentioned earlier) at the Local Heroes Warehouse Party. Or check them in Riverside on Sunday April 13th, at the Missingtoof sponsored Era Disco party. Europe, see if they visit your ‘hood on CC’s MySpace tour calendar. Good times, indeed.
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Much, much more Crystal Castles in our archives.
