Top 10 Remixes Of 2008!

[Intro Goes Here + Bla Bla Bla & More Bla Bla]... Now Without Further Ado, I Present You My Personal Top 10 Remixes Of 2008. All Disagreements Are Welcomed; Don't Hesitate To Share Your Thoughts On What's Hawt & What's Nawt Off The List. Let's Get Rollin'.

#10 Digitalism - Echoes (Siriusmo Remix)
I don't think we've witnessed many 'Simple Yet Effective' edits this year, as far as I can remember the only one that comes to my mind is the Lifelike of Van She's Kelly from last month, which suffered from hatred for not being an obvious remix, although i do admit Lifelike took the term 'Simple' a bit wee too far with it; on the other hand the Siriusmo [Remix] 'Simple Yet Effective' edit towel dried the sweaty original, drowned it in a swamp of liquid green cotton candy & performed exorcism on it to get the digital robot ghost out of it & prepare it to softly voyager Daft Punk (when being smooth) style.

Have you scientifically witnessed the genetic birth of the milky way?


#9 M83 - Kim & Jessie (Montag Remix)
If there's any name that would make sense next to M83 then it definitely is Montag & this remix further more proves the success of this combination. If the church of Sci-Fi virgins existed then you'd likely hear this gospel on a Sunday played by a full orchestra that goes by the name 'The Cosmics'; that is if this is your thing.

A silky ballad laminated by Montag with additional layers of synth, ambient, star exfoliation, sparkles & delicate melodies from galaxies far away.

Lots of people still think M83 is a band, probably because of the fitting-to-the-music-style cherubic teens portrait on the cover of the latest album; Truth is, M83 is just one guy.


#8 Studio - West Side (Klumpfisk Remix)
Here's a bit of a surprise, a remix by a Swedish nobody-to-bloggers making its way into the top 10 remixes list when believe it or not this is his first remix he ever made!

All i can say is, hold your breathe until the 3:23 mark because few seconds from there you'll be experiencing an orgasmic head rush where possibly the greatest breakdown in a remix this year lies within. Never in my life, I ever thought once that a Studio track could be DJ'd on a wild weekend night... let alone be danced to like its the #1 hit on the dance charts....It makes Mr. President's Coco Jumbo sound like a lullaby - can't believe it's unofficial


#7 Friendly Fires - Paris (ft. Au Revoir Simone) (Aeroplane Remix)
It is safe to say that Aeroplane are the big remixing surprise of 2008, the blogs' fondness initiated near the beginning of the year & slowly turned into an obsession as the months progressed, guaranteeing the duo a spot on the Hypem popular list for every remix dropped into the blog ring.

Turning electro & indie tunes to lux cloudy disco anthems is their signature sound & what were rejected remixes of Cut Copy/Grace Jones eventually demanded for a commercial release after the masses repeated the question "What the hell is wrong with the label?"; The magic peaked in my vision when they bravely erased out the original Friendly Fires vocals & replaced them with the healing glycerin like vocals of NYC chanteuses Au Revoir Simone that not only renewed my love for the track but made it a necessity for the original album version to be re-released with the new vocals as a stand alone production... unfortunately that doesn't happen often in this copyright & cash driven life.

This remix puts the original to shame.


#6 Goldfrapp - A&E (Gui Boratto Remix)/Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
Two bookmark songs that will for years ahead resurrect (probably nostalgic) feelings & memories from 08, both conveniently addressing human intimacy; the folk former projects it through reality & the disco house latter underhandedly celebrates hedonistic pleasures - In a way the combination cries out "I'm a damaged animal & I want to be loved".

While both are bulked with volume on the remix, Gui Borrato ascends the grim dimension of the original to the surface with a doomed nuclear reactor like helicopter distorted bass that alongside Alison Goldfrapp's vocals gives me flashes of the most beautiful airbrushed apocalypse scenes.

On the contrary Blind got tailored by Frankie Knuckles in a fashionable house manner to enhance it for a lounging experience by smoothing out the sharp peaks & shattered beats of the original & emphasizes on piano pieces, midi tongue lashes & breeze carrying steady beats making it the suitable soundtrack for my every sunny Friday brunch.


#5 Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down (Duke Dumont Reconstruction)
If only I can direct every thriller scenario i envisioned in my head while listening to this in the dark, i would've won tons of awards by now. Dark, ominous & vague are three accurate words to describe this reconstruction - you know how in some horror/thriller independent art movies about schizophrenic people committing crimes against their loved ones, not realizing its actually themselves doing it & the whole time nothing makes sense until the ending comes, and reveals what really happened in intense disturbing slow motion artistic flashes; accompanied by weird fitting piece of music where you see the murderer unconsciously preparing for his crime, committing it, getting rid of the evidence so his other personality wouldn't find out & then eventually the best bit of the movie arrives where that person realizes what happened & it all gets amazingly too much & for a few seconds there you'd put yourself in that person's shoes & realize how scary & confusing it is.

This is what the last scene & post realization few seconds sound like.


#4 MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Remix)/MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice Remix)
I don't even want to go there.

I think every single person on this planet that knows what Hypem is have already downloaded these 2; they both made it into every single blog i know good or bad (except for a few that avoided posting them for all the right reasons). It still gives me a headache thinking of the process it took to finally have them in real 320kbps. It was hell but I admit, in the end it was all worth it.

Aggressive heavy machinery monsters.


#3 The Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)
Where do i start, where do i start.. The Whitest Boy Alive are my glass of warm milk, jasmine soap bar, log of white chocolate, shards of egg shells, clouds of coconut powder & tight hugging white briefs; It's all about the essence rather than the color. Erlend Oye is my diluted music version of Andy Warhol & his deep pop & voice makes me wanna cry my eyes out sometimes. In this remix Fred Falke took his rainbow chapstic and rubbed its creamy trance balm head all over the secret warehouse studio product to turn it into an epic anthem with foamy baselines & heart melting vocoded ricochets.

Fred Falke made some horrendous credibility shaking decisions this year when he obviously for the paycheck remixed some seriously underwhelming tracks, but knowing that he gave us this gem makes it all easy to forget and forgive. I have nothing but amazing memories to go with it, every time time i hear it I fall in love with myself more & more & there's absolutely nothing wrong about it.


#2 The B-52's - Funplex (Scissor Sisters Witches At The Wet Seal Instrumental)
On a Blogger scale, Erol Alkan (Mustapha 3000/Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve) is my Frank Sinatra in legend density & gets me weak in the knees like a Beatles fan who just discovered an unreleased album at a used records store (whenever a [remix] rework surface). - Just like DFA (Tim Goldsworthy) likes his remixes to be rich and extensive, Alkan's reworks averagely hit the 8 minutes mark and showcases a flawless work only can be done with hands of a brain surgeon. It's not remixes as much as atmospheric higher budget remakes of what is already a good tune & succeeded in bring formulated into a further more substantial piece of art that simulates a movie score adapted by the shapes of the original. Always magnificent never average to say the least.

Ohh! Crapp... wait... this is a Scissor Sisters rework!? (PUN INTENDED)


#1 Dragonette - I Get Around (Ratcliffe Remix)
1) To be honest I never was that crazy about Dragonette, sure i love a few of their songs, the remix packages were always tasteful & packed with quality remixes but in general, as a band (for some reason) they never hacked their way into my system.
2) I have no idea who the hell is Ratcliffe!

You may ask "why would you rank it as #1 when you're not that into the band or the remixer?"

The answer is very simple, this is by far the best remix of the year because it stands for everything that lured (saved) me from the ugly paws of mainstream & delivered me into the of electro in the first place when i used to call it "Arcade Music", It's the Blip, Beep, Bleep, Ping, Pong, Chirp, Clunk, Ding, Dong, Tink, Plink, Plank, Plonk, Twinkle, Tingle, Cling, Clang, Chew, Pew, Brrr, Durrr, Tsssk, Tak, Teet, Tweet & Toot.

A Tom & Jerry brawl in the twilight zone reinterpreted from visual to audio.

This is pure bliss on big speakers.

Ps. 'I Get Around' was released in my region in January 08 - If you think the Dragonette remix is unqualified then the next remix becomes #1 and so on.