Hey guys, so Kunk decided to play around with some mixing tools and crafted this little tape for your pleasure or pain. Please, give it a listen, write a couple comments, whatever suits you. Tracklist and links below.

bloc party - one more chance (alex metric remix)
dragonettes - fixin to thrill (villains remix)
redial - 45 overdrive
delphic - this momentary (le matos remix)
burns - teknique
hadouken! - m. a. d.
digitalism - taken away (reflex rave remix)
jump jump dance dance - show me the night (grum remix)
visitor - los feeling (clockwork remix)
men - simultaneously (tete a tete remix)
elle goulding - starry eyed (russ chimes remix)
yeah yeah yeahs - heads will roll (a-trak remix)
xinobi - bmx (moulinex remix)
grum - heartbeats

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I decided to post some of the best songs of the albums I’ve been listening to recently. Still not prepared to write a full post and it’s still cold out there, snowing like the next ice age is gonna come.

New Hot Chip is amazing. Their melancholic, slower tracks are more and more elegant. I Feel Better is beautiful and love the nu-disco romance that explodes from it after the intro.

Hot Chip - I Feel Better [mediafire] // [ysi]

Xiu Xiu’s Dear God, I Hate Myself is brilliant. The whole record takes you down a road to damnation. Opening track Gray Death grabs you like a whirlwind with the soft, tortured vocals and experimental theatricality.

Xiu Xiu - Gray Death [mediafire] // [ysi]

Russian Circles play the kind of instrumental metal that is one of the few metal genres I can tolerate. Geneva is an awesome example of heaviness and density. The horsemen of apocalypse are getting closer.

Russian Circles - Geneva [mediafire] // [ysi]

Los Campesinos! are a British indie pop band, and though I couldn’t mention any super-original features, their album is the only output of the typical NME-British indie rock scene that could grab my attention. I don’t know, it’s honest and powerful.

Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring [mediafire] // [ysi]

The Flaming Lips and I go way back. Ok, not so waaaaay back since I was 4 when they had their debut out but still. And that’s my point: after more than 20 years, to make an album like Embryonic, you have to be a genius of some sort.

The Flaming Lips - The Ego’s Last Stand [mediafire] // [ysi]

I don’t know too much about Freelance Whales. I just love the acoustic sensitivity combined with the Peter Pan-never-wanna-grow-up attitude and the sweet nostalgia for an innocence that never was.

Freelance Whales - Broken Horse [mediafire] // [ysi]

We’re very happy to point your attention to a brand new track by fave’s of Kunk, Thieves Like Us. Never Known Love nicely extends upon the feeling you know them for — thoughtful and melodic with a touch of the forlorn, but not at all unspirited. This track in particular fittingly conjures up thoughts of a sound related to early 1980s-era New Order. I’ll just assume you know why i used the word fittingly in the last sentence.

Never a band to shy away from having awesome accompanying videos to their tracks — TLU once again works that angle quite nicely.

The trio is currently spread around Europe but that’s not slowed them at all from a steady stream of gigs in the continent and beyond. Don’t miss ‘em if you get the opportunity — we certainly didn’t in Budapest in late 2008. Stay tuned for the new album, “Again and Again”, later this year.

Thieves Like Us - Never Known Love [mediafire] // [ysi]

We are pretty sure that regular bloginess will happen in due time. But, life is life. We’re slow and stuff. Paleolithic, one might argue. But don’t let our sedimentary nature fool you into thinking we aren’t all up in the grill of synth-flavored disco. Na-ah. Twitter to the hand, girl, please.

Below are three tracks we’re sure you all have seen on your various favorite internet destinations. They also happen to be faves of ours. Two of the three remixers (Anoraak, Russ Chimes) were here together last november for a night of insanity (pics or it didn’t happen, i know, i know)… and the third, Justin Faust, will grace the shores of Kunk next February 27. How’s that for rawk?!

All three mixes are wicked in their own way, and per usual have been getting megalove across bloggaland. Btw, don’t forget to give some love to the italians, since they do it better and everything, makers of the original track which Faust mixed: Fare Soldi!

Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed (Russ Chimes Remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Fare Soldi - Tutto Tutti Sempre Subito (Justin Faust Remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Mika - Blame It On the Girls (Anoraak Remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

I’m sure you all remember Laura Branigan. She’s dead. In her wake she left some pretty awesome songs in the catalog. Back in the living years, Italian guy named Raf (Raffaele Riefoli) sorta covered one of those hits, namely “Self Control”. Actually he was the co-writer of the song and released it a bit earlier, however Branigan’s was the one which received more attention. It’s another one of our italo party night research finds, and — with no disrespect meant to those not here with us — i’m loving this version more than the popularized one.

You’d be remiss if you didn’t check out the video as well. It has some video screen technologies which you will undoubtedly enjoy.

We should also note that the breakdown which occupies the last 2 minutes of this track adds a ‘funky’ kick which just might make your day.

RAF - Self Control [mediafire] // [ysi]

Kunkers recently held a so-called ‘bad-italo’ themed dive bar party which was a total hoot. In doing some research for the gig I stumbled across Laserdance. For me they were an (awesome) novelty. But as i’ve been told by some of my european buddies, they along with other italo- and euro-dance favorites of the 80s, were FM rock staples. So basically what Journey and REO Speedwagon were for me in the US of A, Laserdance and Ken Laszlo were for Euros. No wonder i moved to this continent.

Whether my leg was being pulled or not, “Power Run” is a classic call to, er, power running, right from the laser-y & space-y source. Laserdance was (is?) a pair of Dutch dudes in the late 80s, who then releasd the album Future Generation, with this track along with several tasty others.

You can hear sounds similar to this in countless mini-niches these days, and there is an unsurprising relating sound to later Dutch producers such as Alden Tyrell.

Laserdance - Power Run [mediafire] // [ysi]

So this time, still suffering from the mind-blowing awesomeness of The Twelves last night, I’d like to invite everyone to listen to and the Budapesters to attend the gig of this new band. The second edition of the ‘My Friend’ series is about Adi. Adi is one of the guitarists of The Moog. Actually, he started to play covers (haha yeah, HIM, Muse, Placebo, to list a few) with Tonyo, the singer, before The Moog was called as it is now and even before it had a drummer. I’d love to get my hand on the cassettes they are hiding. But this post is not about The Moog but about a…umm…’side-project’ under the heavy name of Haunebu. Nazi UFO’s anyone? They must go on a tour with Oneida. Just imagine all the heavy sounds in ‘Oneida and Haunebu on tour’. Adi is one of the hearts of Haunebu’s sound. He represents something of rock and roll that didn’t become a joke by the 21st century. Something of the heaviness and the ‘fuck you’ that doesn’t come from the show or the show is a show of sincerity. This gives edge to Haunebu’s grungey-stoner-garage stuff and Adi’s uncompromising attitude is interconnected with the music’s one time hypnotic, another time deep dirty feel. The songwriting seems a bit rough at first but on second thought, it is responsible for much of the charm and beauty. There is a fine line that band-in-making has to strike between freshness and craftsmanship. Thanks to the driving force and the anxieties of the guys tearing up their instruments, each of them his own, they make the guitar scream, the drum roll, etc as honestly as they can within the boundaries of the songs. Adi here, as well as elsewhere, stands for much more than the oh-so-many-times-opprobriated leather jacket and skinny jeans, Haunebu, far from being ‘complete’ can seem like a jaggernaut on the horizon. I don’t mean to be nostalgic for some imaginery era when rock music was so very real, no, but I think I can easily appreciate anyone who doesn’t give a fuck about make-up, glamour, etc and spits to the ground after drinking a shot.

Haunebu - Bones [mediafire] // [ysi]

Yeah yeah, we know. Are blogging has been, let’s say, less than prolific of late. No excuses in particular other than the usuals. Day jobs, night jobs, hand jobs, etc. However, just cos our post count is down, doesn’t mean our mojo is. In fact, quite the opposite! To wit, tomorrow, mega-excited about 12.12 with The Twelves, Kunk’n it down. Those in Budapest know there’ll be no other place to be. Support sets by yours trulies, Brandon and Cigi, plus local soaring-electro wunderkid, We Plants Are Happy Plants. It’ll be a whale of a time. And speaking of whales, we gots us a few 12s remixes below to put us all in the mood.

By the way, we recently fired up a Kunk facebook fan page cos our facebook group was feeling droopy and sad like a tired dog. Come by and fan us, the water’s warm! (hopefully not yellow): http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kunk/153402970925

We’re uploading our party photos there and other good stuff.

The Virgins - Rich Girls (The Twelves Remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Terri Poison - Comme Ci Comme Ca (The Twelves Remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Noah & The Whale - Blue Skies (The Twelves Remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Previous Kunk-guests of the marvellous Valerie crew, Anoraak from France and Russ Chimes from London, return together to Budapest, after their huge tours in the USA and Australia. Bring your dance and bring your romance to Mappa Club this Saturday night because we present the magic and dreams of the pseudo-80s nu-disco synth-revolution. Lovers and misanthropes will both be blown away. RSVP on Facebook!

DETAILS
What: Kunk presents Anoraak + Russ Chimes (Valerie, FR/UK)
When: Saturday, November 21, 2009; 10pm - 4am
Where: Mappa Club (former Trafo Bar Tango), Lilliom u. 41, IX Budapest
DJs: Anoraak, Russ Chimes, Kunk
Entry: 1200 HUF
Special: Girls free before 11pm!

Anoraak - Nightdrive With You (Grum New Wave remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Anoraak - Nightdrive With You (Fear of Tigers remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Russ Chimes - Afterburner [mediafire] // [ysi]

Steed Lord - Remember Me (Russ Chimes remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Hi. Kunk is very busy preparing some stuff, so blogging, unfortunately, again had to wait. This is not a super unique post either and I’m usually not doing it like this but now I’m just gonna share some remixes I really liked in the past couple weeks. Kinda trying to set stuff to the winter-mood we have here. You know, fog and rain and colder than fall should be. I’m in between dancefloor-exploding hotness that melts the coming snow and the ice-queen coolness and beauty that has its home in the clouds around the mountaintops. So my choices are: Yeah Yeah Yeahs remixed by A-Trak. This one is huge, I know, I’m surprised I like it because I never liked A-Trak but this mix kills it. Another one is by Treasure Fingers who entered the remix contest for Little Boots‘ Earthquake. Epicwave remix indeed. Talking about dancefloor-killers, the brilliant Russ Chimes did it again with Marina and the Diamonds. Closer to the coldness, Siriusmo’s laid-back mix of Chromeo’s new single is an awesome ’summer is dead’ tune. The XX would be definetely cool background music for a winter video, probably fashion-y kids holding hands and trying to make things work in a ski camp or something. Rory Phillips‘ mix stays on the XX mood and makes it an abstract dance track. Au Revoir Simone and Neon Indian is a great pair, the latter’s remix of Another Likely Story bears a beautiful dream-like quality. Thanks for the tracks to various blogs around.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-Track remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Little Boots - Earthquake (Treasure Fingers’ Epicwave mix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Marina and the Diamonds - Mowgli’s Road (Russ Chimes remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Chromeo - Night by Night (Siriusmo remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

The XX - Crystalised (Rory Phillips remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Au Revoir Simone - Another Likely Story (Neon Indian remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]