For a minute, Buy Now was my secret weapon. Swedish house heavyweights Sebastian Ingrosso & Steve Angello, collectively know as Buy Now are masters of their niché. Their ‘For Sale’ is the perfect blend of progression, synth and the all-important cowbell. Well now let’s open up the arsenal and get all NRA with it! For a track first surfacing in 2005, this one sounds like it was made tomorrow. Secret weapon declassified:

MP3: Buy Now - For Sale

But that’s not all—2007 saw a couple heavyweight remixes by Chicago houser Felix da Housecat and a collaboration between Swede housers Henrik B & Plec (who also does metal—undoubtedly the one who threw down the heavy guitars)

MP3: Buy Now - For Sale (Felix Da Housecat Remix)

MP3: Buy Now - For Sale (Henrik B and Plec Remix)

In 2006, Buy Now put out a “bookend-style” track called ‘Sold’. Which is better: ‘For Sale’ or ‘Sold’. I dunno, you tell us!

MP3: Buy Now - Sold (Original Mix Edit)

Ok, coolness tracks right? But maybe you’re wondering “why now?” Well, Buy Now are back with a new track, ‘Body Crash’ slated for an early ‘08 release. And just today, our boy Flufftronix took the as-yet-unreleased Buy Now single and beefed up the drums. It’s charmingly bootleg to the core—produced from a radio rip (un-released! duh!). But, do you know what? The levels sound pretty damned good; I guess when you’re a Low-Bee board Ol’ Head, you can do that kind of wacky audio alchemy:

MP3: Buy Now - Body Crash (Flufftronix Bootleg Edit)

I won’t post ‘Body Crash’ original until a legit version shows itself—however—I will point you in the direction of the zShare link to hear the rip from Pete Tong’s Radio 1 program.

Want some records? Juno’s got a grip on these fellas.

Remember, Buy Now is Sebastian Ingrosso & Steve Angello.
Visit Sebastian Ingrosso on MySpace.
Visit Steve Angello on MySpace.

OK! The Teenagers finally have something full length in the world! It is ‘The World is Not Fair EP’ on Rallye / Klee for the Japanese market. It’s available here. The Site is in Japanese and to tell you the truth, I don’t know if they ship int’l. Yo, Japan snap one up for us!

So what can you absolutely get your mitts on right now? We have some crisp, new & official remixes by some fellow Frenchies: First, brilliant work from Les Petits Pilous and another brilliant colab. between Yuksek & Brodinski.

MP3: The Teenagers - Starlett Johansson (Les Petits Pilous Remix)

MP3: The Teenagers - Homecoming (Yuksek & Brodinski Remix)

Also, a new CFCF remix that’s hot as shit, but we can’t share it because of teh labelz don’t wants it.

But, don’t fret too much. Here’s some other commissioned Teenz remixes we’ve impatiently been sitting on for a long time due to more label shenanigans. Now The Teenz gave us a thumbs up, so please enjoy! One remix for one of our very favorite Aussies, Van She and another for recently mentioned electro-indie L.A. hipsters Shiny Toy Guns:

MP3: Van She - Sex City (The Teenagers Remix)

MP3: Shiny Toy Guns - Don’t Cry Out (The Teenagers Remix)

Lastly, Japanese producer Narctrax put this bootleg remix together and, I’m feeling pretty much everything this dude is doing. Check ‘em out now and know we’ve got more coming down the internet tubes.

MP3: The Teenagers - Starlett Johansson (Narctrax Remix)

Visit the The Teeangers on MySpace.
More teenagers tracks, info and tour dates in The Teenagers archive.

Pimp C, or Chad Butler—one half of the classic Texas rap duo UGK, died at the age of 33 in his Mondrian Hotel room in Hollywood this morning. Just three days after what was to be his final show with Too $hort at the House of Blues. The pair were also at work on an album together.

Pimp C and his long standing partner and friend Bun B formed UGK made their first major noise with ‘Something Good’, on Jive Records (back when it was still a legitimate rap label).

MP3: UGK - Something Good (1992)

UGK has been a staple of Hip Hop since, but with Pimp C’s untimely death this morning, UGK has ostensibly come to its end. But looking back to better days, my favorite UGK track is the ‘93 single ‘Pocket Full of Stones’, which is heard on the Menace II Society soundtrack. Pimp C was the producer of many UGK tracks including ‘Pocket Full of Stones’, and produced several additional remixes, including this very appropriate one that, tonight, sounds like a eulogy:

MP3: UGK - Pocket Full of Stones (1993)

MP3: UGK - Pocket Full of Stones (Pimp C Remix) (1993)

Pimp C is most known for his appearances on Jay-Z’s 2000 single ‘Big Pimpin” and Three 6 Mafia’s 2000 single ‘Sippin’ On Da Syrup’ (aka ‘Sizzurp’). But, Pimp C has collaborated with many artists, most interestingly, UGK collaborated with UK Grime’s highest superstar Dizzee Rascal on his most recent ‘Maths + English’ album. UGK sounds at home on the track:

MP3: Dizzee Rascal - Where’s Da G’s (feat. Bun B & Pimp C) (2007)

I grew up a hip hop head and on a steam of UGK on cassette tapes. Free Pimp C… Pimp C is now free.

If you’re a Hip Hop fan, get your library right with the ‘Best of’ UGK album that came out a while back. It’s solid and it’s on Amazon.

Visit Pimp C’s MySpace page and leave your messages of support.