I’m sure I’m not the only one that has found Hot Chip’s The Warning to be my favourite album of last year, and boy have they beena busy bunch doing remixes for loads of other bands and artists. This is the reason for this post - putting together a good few of the Hot Chip remixes to demonstrates the wonders they can do for some songs. Oooh the electronic goodness.

Update - All tracks removed on request of EMI Records

Hot Chip [Homepage] [MySpace] [Last.fm] [Wikipedia]

Hot Chip - The Remixes
01. Jim Noir - My Patch
02. Adem - Launch Yourself
03. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
04. Gorillaz - Kids With Guns
05. Lo-Fi-Fnk - Steppin’ Out
06. Rolling Stones - I’m Free
07. Booka Shade - Darko
08. Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama Out
09. Architecture in Helsinki - Do The Whirlwind
10. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
11. Plan B - Who Needs Actions
12. The Boggs - Arm In Arm

You can also download the whole mix as a zip file:
Hot Chip - The Remixes

Hot Chip - The Remixed
01. Hot Chip - Careful (Careful Version)
02. Hot Chip - Colours (DFA Remix)
03. Hot Chip - Colours (Fred Falke Remix)
04. Hot Chip - Over And Over (Diplo Mix)
05. Hot Chip - Over And Over (Maurice Fulton Remix)
06. Hot Chip - Over And Over (Naum Gabo Remix)
07. Hot Chip - Just Like We Breakdown (DFA Remix)
08. Hot Chip - Just Like We Breakdown (Brooka Shade)
09. Hot Chip - No Fit State (Audion Remix)
10. Hot Chip - Boy From School (Hot Chip Re-Work)
11. Hot Chip - Boy From School (Acoustic Version)

You can also download the whole mix as a zip file:
Hot Chip - The Remixed

Here is your latest dose of weekly goodness of music that has been running through my veins recently. I also added one of my favourite tracks by the soul master that was James Brown (RIP).

Snazzy As Fuck Vol.2
01. Datarock - Computer Camp Love
[Buy] [Homepage] [MySpace]
02. CSS - Music Is My Hot Hot Sex
[Buy] [Homepage] [MySpace]
03. The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control (Soulwax Nite Version)
[Buy] [Homepage] [MySpace]
04. The Rogers Sisters - Why Won’t You?
[Buy] [Homepage] [MySpace]
05. Klaxons - Magick
[Buy] [Homepage] [MySpace]
06. James Brown - Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag
[Buy] [Homepage] [Obituary]

You can also download the whole mix as a zip file:
Snazzy As Fuck Vol.2

Enjoy

-Tim

I wrote and prepared this the same time as I did my Christmas Mix, but thought I would save it for a Christmas present to you all.
Although I have focused primarily on indie this year, that is not the total of my taste as this list should show. As with the Christmas Mix, each song is linked to the relevant album or single for purchase. The songs aren’t in any particular order of favouritism (in fact I think Hot Chip was my band of the year), just in an order that I think play well as a mix.

01. The Spinto Band - Oh Mandy [Buy]
02. GoodBooks - Walk With Me [Website]
03. Princeton - The Indifference Cult [Buy]
04. Ambulance ltd. - New English [Buy]
05. The Blow - Parentheses [Buy]
06. Voxtrot - Trouble [Buy]
07. Band of Horses - Monsters [Buy]
08. Jamie T - Sheila [Buy]
09. Placebo - Running Up That Hill [Buy]
10. The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger [Buy]
11. Larrikin Love - Happy As Annie [Buy]
12. The View - Wasted Little DJs [Buy]
13. TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me [Buy]
14. Oh No! Oh My! - I Have No Sister [Buy]
15. Hot Chip - Over And Over [Buy]
16. Justice Vs Simian - We Are Your Friends [Buy]

Or of course you can download the whole mix including artwork
Best of 2006 Mix

-Tim

Over here in the UK, being at the Univeristy of Edinburgh I am also part of something called the Student Panel, where I express my opinions on various topics as part of what could be described as a focus group on things from politics to pop culture. Anyway, their latest results are in on UK Students are in and it seems I’m not alone.

The most popular Christmas song is:
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York [Buy]

The least popular song is:
Cliff Richard - Mistletoe and Wine [Buy]

-Tim

Leaks are getting pretty much a certainty these days for hotly awaited albums and Jamie T is the latest artist to have this happen with his album Panic Prevention. All I can say is that the album is everything I had hoped it would be and will definitely be one of the albums of 2007. Brand New Bass Guitar is fantastic!
As with the other leaks I won’t be posting any leaks here, but the albums are available from the usual suspects (and please don’t ask me where to find it) and comes out officially in mid January, when I am getting it straight of Amazon UK.

Jamie T - Demos and Live Recordings
(Some people hate Savefile so I’ve re-uploaded them elsewhere

Jamie T - A New England
Jamie T - Alicia Keys
Jamie T - Back in the Game (Culture Show)
Jamie T - Brand New Bass Guitar (live)
Jamie T - Calm Down Dearest (BBC Collective)
Jamie T - Dance
Jamie T - Do You Have The Time
Jamie T - Down To The Subway
Jamie T - Dry Off Your Cheeks
Jamie T - Feel Me
Jamie T - Ike and Tina
Jamie T - Interlude
Jamie T - Livin With Betty
Jamie T - Northern Line
Jamie T - NWA
Jamie T - Oh My Girl
Jamie T - On Holiday
Jamie T - Pacemaker
Jamie T - Salvador
Jamie T - Salvador (Xfm Session)
Jamie T - Sheila
Jamie T - Sheila (Instrumental)
Jamie T - Sheila (live)
Jamie T - So Lonely was the Ballad (live)

You can also download all Jamie’s demos as a zip file:
Jamie T - Demos

And here are all the currently released music videos on Youtube:

Jamie T - Sheila
Jamie T - If You’ve Got The Money
Jamie T - Salvador

-Tim

Due to the success of the Blue Walrus Christmas Mix (aka Blue Christmas), I’ve decided to start was is hopefully going to a fortnightly occassion of a new series of mixes named delightfully “Snazzy as Fuck” due to a resurgence of that phrase recently. As per the other mix, each song will be available individually as well as the whole mix with (hopefully) album art. My “Best of 2006 Mix” has been compiled too and will be available to download after Christmas.
Edit (30/12/2006) - Mika’s Grace Kelly is being released in a week, so it has been taken down and replaced by a different song by him.

On with the music.

Snazzy as Fuck Vol. 1
01. Mika - Relax [Homepage]
02. RJD2 - Beyond The Beyond [Homepage]
03. Subtle - The Mercury Craze [Homepage]
04. The Royal We - All The Rage [MySpace]
05. The Shakes - Shine [Homepage]
06. Bat for Lashes - Trophy [Homepage]

You can also download the whole mix as a zip file:
Snazzy as Fuck Vol. 1

Stay tuned for the best of 2006 mix next week

-Tim