London’s The Black Ghosts are what’s right with music today. We are excited to be collaborating with The Black Ghosts and IAMSOUND Records to bring to you, a series of music videos featuring The Black Ghosts music, made by talented filmmakers. Get your stream on!

Over the next two months, Missingtoof and our bigger bro, Big Stereo, will be debuting new videos from The Black Ghosts every Monday (alternating between our site and theirs). This will be building up to The Black Ghosts debut self-titled release on July 8th! I know I’m excited. Will the record be this generation’s “The Sounds of Silence” with a bassline? Perhaps! I’m very optimistic.

We typically avoid using press-release information verbatim, but the sentence explaining the video above can’t be improved on: “An ordinary day in the life of a gay couple of thieves with relationship problems.” The video is directed by young Brazilian film maker, Paulinho Caruso.

The next video, for the single, ‘Anyway You Choose To Give It’, will be premiered next Monday, May 12th, on Big Stereo (it alternates, get it?).

More to whet yr chops, here’s The Black Ghosts, ‘Mixtape’ mixtape. Courtesy of IAMSOUND & Southern Fried Records.

Tracklisting:

1. Boy 8-bit – The Suspense is Killing Me
2. Armand Van Helden - Je T’aime (Switch Mix)
3. SMD - Cliktrak
4. Ben Westbeech - Hang Around (Karisma’s Kaytronic Dub)
5. The Black Ghosts - Something New (Live Re-version)
6. Rustie - Pendulum
7. Frankmusik - Three Little Words (The Black Ghosts Mix)
8. Boy 8bit - Fog Bank
9. Trabant - The One (Black Ghosts Mix)
10. Siriusmo - Discosau
11. Proper Villians - Trick Baby
12. Lord Skywave - Something
13. Alter Ego - Fuckingham Palace
14. The Gossip - Listen Up (The Black Ghosts Remix)
15. The Black Ghosts – I want nothing (Extended Mix)
16. Fil Ok - Wink wink (Touché Mix)
17. The Black Ghosts - Some Way Through This (The Replicants Mix)
18. Bonde do Role - Marina Gasolina (Fake Blood Mix)
19. Fake Blood - Mars
20. The Black Ghosts - Face (Switch Mix)
21. The Whip - Muzzle #1 (The Black Ghosts Mix)
22. The Black Ghosts - Anyway You Chose to Give It (Extended Mix)
23. The Black Ghosts - Anyway you choose to give it (Fake Blood Mix)

MP3: The Black Ghosts - Mixtape (63:40 | 108MB)

Currently on tour through the US with Thunderheist, as part of the Colt 45/VICE Tour, The Black Ghosts whirlwind through Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City all this week (RSVP here!) before returning to shows in Europe and Japan. Full tour information on The Black Ghosts MySpace tour page.

Visit The Black Ghosts on MySpace or their official site, Theblackghosts.co.uk.

More from The Black Ghosts in the Missingtoof archive.

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!

Visit LAZRtag on MySpace.

L.A.’s After Midnight are coming out throwin’ ‘bows on their first remix release for San Francisco’s The Frail. You may remember After Midnight is one-half DJ Farron and one-half Philthy B, formerly of the Villains, whom we introduced you to last month with his ‘It May B Durty but Luv the Jurny‘ mixtape.

The Frail, who’s 2007 EP, ‘Count on This’ has been building steam and accolades on its own, are ready for another level. The level is the cluuuub. Travel teh levelz. ZOMG! Original and the remix:

MP3: The Frail - Addiction (After Midnight Remix)

MP3: The Frail - Addiction (Pre-studio version)

Hot sauce! Here’s more sauce from Leeds-based producer DoBERMAN, and Parisian electro-madman The Toxic Avenger.

MP3: The Frail - Count On This (DoBERMAN Remix)

MP3: The Frail - The Lights (Toxic Avenger vs. The Frail)

After Midnight can be seen in Hollywood at their residencies: Friday night at Vanguard and Saturday’s at Republic.

Visit After Midnight on MySpace.
Visit The Frail on MySpace.

N.Y.’s Designer Drugs are the dopest (pun intended). Designer Drugs have been steady racking up a discog of club bangin’ remixes and for their efforts have earned hella blog and mixtape love (the evidence). The two live crew dropped off this brand new remix of Vancouver BC’s Fake Shark Real Zombie!—an indie-hardcore-dance-rock band who’s 2007 album, ‘Zebra Zebra’ has been filling the void in my life that was put there by the untimely death of their contemporaries, UK’s Test Icicles. ‘Zebra Zebra’ happens to feature a song named ‘Designer Drugs’. Designer Drugs remixes ‘Designer Drugs’? This was meant to be:

MP3: Fake Shark Real Zombie! - Designer Drugs (Designer Drugs Remix)

DJs need oven mitts these club-biscuits are so hot! Keep the dance party going with the these delicious remixes from Designer Drugs bakery (it’s not really a bakery, it’s not even a mob controlled money laundering bakery-front for drugs, it’s probably more of a bedroom studio, but the former sounds more fun and I digress). Enjoy remixes of French synth-rockers FLOU, Philly Indie kids Hail Social, New England indie kids Protokoll, Melbourne indie darlings Midnight Juggernaut, & UK electronica act, QUEENOFWAR. Dig in.

MP3: FLOU - Les Gens Pour Ce Quils Sont (Designer Drugs Remix)

MP3: Hail Social - Heaven (Designer Drugs Remix)

MP3: Protokoll - Moving Forward (Designer Drugs Remix)

MP3: Midnight Juggernauts - Tombstone (Designer Drugs Belated Re-Edit)

MP3: QUEENOFWAR - Sex Up My Brain (Designer Drugs Remix)

Through May and June, Designer Drugs are coming through Los Angeles, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Atlanta, Philly, DC, Charlotte & Las Vegas. See what’s up with these and future tour dates on Designer Drugs tour schedule.

Visit Designer Drugs on MySpace.