Wanna hear an official proof that summer’s here? That is definetly Pony Pony Run Run’s new tune: Hey You. France gives us the best mood-setters for summer on the indie-electro wave. After Phoenix’s album, PPRR will be the audience’s reminder of that. With this track PPRR is still going strong after previous Kunk-guest, Anoraak left them. It was a year ago that Kunk was totally absorbed in their Boy/Girl Surrender’s summer edit. We even selected it for a French summer-blog-playlist at Streetkiss! It’s safe to say that PPRR is definetly a summer-vibe act. Hey You is elegant and fun, it’s subtle and energetic. Of course, it has a hint of grief for youth and love. Check the video below and see for yourself the summer-smoothness in Asia.

As for sayCet, I don’t think we have to introduce him to Kunk-readers. This time he brings a remix of Hey You (PPRR made a remix competiton out of it, ran by Fairtilizer) which is a really fit transformation of the original sound and mood. sayCet has the talent to make something very different look like that it could’ve been the original, if you know what I mean. His fingerprint epic-melancholy makes the remix a great pair for the original: we could like label the original ‘day/happy/dusk mix’ and the sayCet ‘night/sad/dawn mix’ or something like that. (The whole matter is not that simple, both versions are full of ambiguity but both are playing on the smiling sadness, sad smiles scale.) Echoes and jingling synths make up this unique rework which ends in sorrowful silence. Amazing.

Pony Pony Run Run - Hey You [mediafire] // [ysi]

Pony Pony Run Run - Hey You (sayCet remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

No, really, I just can’t. Fitting pair again this time: as you’re aware, there’s a Bloc Party remix album out there. They even have a remix contest. My new favourite, sayCet took Signs and made it even more haunting than the original. Overlapping vocals and disturbing jingling synths. The whole remix is full of life and beauty.

“I see sings now all the time

That you’re not dead, you’re sleeping

I believe in anything

That brings you back home to me”

Bloc Party - Signs (sayCet remix) [zshare] // [ysi]

After his Anoraak remix, I was blown away by sayCet. Now his management found us with his new stuff, a remix of Panda Bear and Phoenix’s 1901. Interesting choices, one being a blog-favourite and the other a Pitchfork kinda altbro track. Nevertheless, I still believe that a good producer has to narrate his/her own story of influences with the remixes and other ways of using the tracks of others. sayCet is, with this criteria, still mindblowing. Beautiful soundscapes, dream-like atmosphere of foggy cotton candy planets floating alone in space. Both mixes are short and they deliver a subtle hit in during short time. And this is a great achievement, considering the huge difference between musical styles, and a power-demonstration: he can force his will upon any material he gets. You really have to watch sayCet this year.

Phoenix - 1901 (sayCet remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Panda Bear - I’m Not (sayCet remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

This is time for WTF reactions. BRMC came out with an album full of instrumental, ambient works. Ok, ok, this happened as a ’statement’ or something: this is their first independent release and is only available only. This can be seen as a reaction, same as Radiohead’s or NIN’s but it’s BRMC. They don’t have 10 albums behind their backs and they are not legends…yet. I know that this kind of move has two typical effects on those who listened to the album: 1. they like how the rock band has a ‘deep’ ‘vision’ about ‘art’ and ‘the human soul’ not only a rock band with guitars and drums, 2. they hate it because it seems a forced attempt at making something irrelevant and unnecessary. I think I belong in the second group. I mean I really adore BRMC and all of the albums but this one is just a collection of annoying sounds ‘from the road’. And oh wow it came out on 27th of October and exactly at 3:33am! WOW! Ok, sorry, I don’t wanna be categorical…listen to the opening one down here and buy the album here. I’m just disappointed because, you know, you don’t need to make symbolic statements about the music industry and prove that you are ‘more’ than a rock band if you’re a rock band…why is this frustration there? Is it just me or anyone else sees this symptom with more bands who try to be artists instead of making ‘only’ rock or pop music?

BRMC -  The Effects of 333 [zshare] // [ysi]