Amtrac

Amtrac released a MONSTER remix on Friday. The tune is a nu disco romp, with a Barry Manilow twist. The rework of Everything’s Gunna Be Alright will melt your panties off. He recently did a remix for the Chromatics(From my hometown, Portland WATTTUPPP), their song Birds of Paradise gets a chill disco treatment from the Kentucky native. It rocks. Now, we are seeing Treasure Fingers in two weeks, and Amtrac has one of the finest remixes around. His take on the classic It’s Love is a feel-good disco track. It’s quickly becoming my favorite remix of the track. SOOOO many good songs! it’s hard to stop adding to this post, Fear is an EPIC oldschool disco house track. It retains an oldschool beat feel, while getting an update for the times. It’s an awesome song. One more! Canadian indie rockers Metric get the rework treatment. The result is a chill downtempo twist on their track Blindness. By the way, Metric plays the Ogden October 4th, get your tix here.

Enjoy!

-Ames.

Remix Artist Collective

First, a warning. This post is going to be long. Very Long….

So I get asked to play this song ALL THE TIME. Pretty much anytime i’m messing around on decks, “Play Hollywood,” they say (you know who you are 🙂 ). Every. Time.  RAC released this awesome nu disco collaboration with Penguin Prison as a teaser to their upcoming debut album 3 months ago. If ANY of the other tracks on the album come close to this one…. well lets just say my entire set will be RAC requests  I’ll put Hollywood (along with SUPERB remixes from The Magician and Felix da Housecat) at the bottom of this post. All three are available for free download, and I suggest you put them on your playlists. They are all MASSIVE.

Now that we’ve got that elephant out of the room, lets spotlight some of the Remix Artist Collective’s more obscure work. With so much material on their soundcloud, developing the tracklist for this post was a real treat. They rework Gossip’s Perfect World very well. RAC has a special way of letting the original track shine, while still adding a unique touch. Too many artists call it a “remix” when really they just made a generic house track and sampled the original tracks hook. Compare their take on the Fixers Iron Deer Dream to almost any other remix out there. RAC’s sounds the purest. It’s not as if they can’t do up pop stuff either…. they DOMINATE Lana Del Rey’s flash hit Blue Jeans. They lay a bubbly synth over the top of Foster the People’s Houdini. Their rework of Zero by the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s is unbelievable summer music, the bassline will have you movin’ for sure. They take dark indie rockers Phantogram’s track When I’m Small and work MAGIC. This one takes a grim dark turn, and appeals on a deeeeeep level. I’ll leave with another Penguin Prison track, this time its an original remixed by RAC. Worse it Gets makes it into most of my sets, and it yet another shining example of RAC’s potential when given an indie track.

These guys have really remixed everyone under the sun… I beg you to explore their soundcloud. It really comes down to what indie band you prefer, because RAC has done them all.

Enjoy!

-Ames.

Yuksek

Yuksek. This dude has been involved in various nu disco projects since 2005, and collaborations with heavyweights The Magician and Aeroplane have yielded several top notch releases. I featured his collab with The Magician in an earlier post, Memory is an epic unforgettable nu disco journey. His newest release is an EP entitled “The Edge,” and it is straight GROOVY. Released earlier today, the EP features 4 remixes in addition to the superb original. Aeroplane’s remix is the highlight, it bangs along with that signature uplifting synth that we know and love. Barney force fed me the remix of Gossip’s hit Heavy Cross a while back, and I ate it up. This track BANGS, beginning soft, listeners are kept unaware of the funk fest waiting up ahead. He again shows his remixing prowess in the complete rework of Stuck in the Sound’s track Brother. The original is a grungy indie-rock tune, and his funkified electro redo will make you question whether it’s even the same stems. Finally, Tonight gets a great disco refresh from Andre Anjos AKA RAC. Hailing from my hometown of Portland OR, this guy gives the Frenchman’s track a upbeat kick/snare and it rides along beautifully, with lasers. Always with lasers.

Enjoy!

-Ames.