Aussie shoegazers, part-time remixers and Modular people, Van She have a return to form with ‘Strangers’, the latest track leaked from their forthcoming debut full-length, ‘V’, slated for an August release. This follows up the first single ‘Cat and the Eye’.

Van She is unique in that they are their own best canidate for a remix. Not many can pull off being rockstars who also produce jawdropping club remixes. That club membership card is held by, perhaps, by Van She and Ghent’s Soulwax alone. The evidence is below. Club dues are paid in full.

MP3: Van She - Strangers
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MP3: Van She - Strangers (Van She Tech Remix)
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MP3: Van She - Cat and the Eye (Van She Tech Remix)

Save the Feist ‘1234′ remix, which is so good it’s untouchable, this 2006 remix for London electro-poppers I Am Finn is probably my long standing favorite and doesn’t leave my queue.

MP3: I Am Finn - I Love You (Van She Tech Remix)

Van She will be touring the country that is also a continent in June. Austraila, support these guys they’re hometown heroes.

Visit Van She on MySpace or the official site, Vanshe.com.

Much more Van She and Van She Technologic in the Missingtoof archive.

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.

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Surkin is the fucking man. Reppin’ Parisian label-crew Institubes, Surkin released his latest ‘Next of Kin’ EP on April 7th. Get set for three original tracks and one remix by New Jersey electronica-head, Todd Edwards. That’s four tracks of dancefloor fire, but you only get one from me—I’ve opted to share not the title-track, but instead to run with ‘White Knight Two’, a disco house track flipped with some stuttering vocal effects. The beginning has kind of a Bizarre Inc. ‘I’m Gonna Get You’ vibe—I’m a total sucker for it.

MP3: Surkin - White Knight Two

Always striving for moar! Here are a pair from last years remix album, ‘Fireworks Refired’, including a self-remix and another from versatile label-mate Tacteel. Also, one Surkin remix from German electro-god Boys Noize recently released ‘Oi Oi Oi Remixed’ remix album.

MP3: Surkin - Radio Fireworks (Surkin 909 Edit)

MP3: Surkin - Kiss and Fly (Tacteel Remix Edit)

MP3: Boys Noize - Don’t Believe the Hype (Surkin Mix no.2)

Buy ‘Next of Kin’ EP, as well as other Surkin, Institubes & Boys Noize release digitally on Beatport.com.

Surkin is touring Europe currently, but will be jettsetting out to Cali for Saturday, April 26th’s installment of Coachella Music Festival (alongside Para One, Orgasmic, Curses!, and, um, Prince, among others). Surkin is also making a stop in SF at Blasthaus. Europe, peep the full tour schedule on MySpace.

Visit Surkin on MySpace.

More Surkin in our archives.

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E’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.

Visit Crystal Castles on MySpace.

Much, much more Crystal Castles in our archives.