We Kunkers certainly think so. But seriously, before you chastise us for YET ANOTHER post on our faves from that country to the North of Spain and to the SouthEast of the UK, we plead forgiveness as in just two nights (Thursday), homeboy is here spinning at Corvinteto with ourselves and TCC party mates. In case somehow you have yet to get the flavor of the sound that has had us unnervingly hooked since last year, below is a fairly comprehensive wrap-up of Anoraak remixes and originals.

Pick them up below but first have a perusal of the snazzy flyer… the venue will have the Euro 2008 match on the big screen on the roof, so you can get your sport and party on in one convenient locale!

And, by the way, don’t let anyone knock Alizee we dig that gal…

Anoraak - Nightdrive With You (Adeyhawke Remix) [zshare] // Anoraak - Nightdrive With You (Adeyhawke Remix) [ysi]

Anoraak - Nightdrive With You (GRUM Remix) [zshare] // Anoraak - Nightdrive With You (GRUM Remix) [ysi]

College - Teenage Color (Anoraak Remix) [zshare] // College - Teenage Color (Anoraak Remix) [ysi]

Hail Social - Heaven (Anoraak Remix) [zshare] // Hail Social - Heaven (Anoraak Remix) [ysi]

The Outrunners - Cool Feeling (Anoraak Remix) [zshare] // The Outrunners - Cool Feeling (Anoraak Remix) [ysi]

Alizee - Moi Lolita [zshare] // Alizee - Moi Lolita [ysi]

Pretty much everything Grum puts out these days makes its way immediately to these pages, and the fact that his latest touches upon our faves from the French West coast — Anoraak — guarantees a continuing of the trend. Add to this fact that Anoraak will be partying with yours trulies here in a couple weeks… passing up this track is no longer an option even if you’ve already seen it around blawg-land in the past few days. Nightdrive with You has been re-edited by quite a few peeps but I think this particular take gives it exactly what it needs for the summer — and, hell, the original *already* is the perfect sound for the summer. Enjoy the track and love it live in a couple of weeks!

Anoraak - Nightdrive With You (GRUM’s New Wave Remix) [zshare] // Anoraak - Nightdrive With You (GRUM’s New Wave Remix) [ysi]

And a dolphin is just a gay shark, right? Or at least i’ve heard rumours. So, we included a mention of this track on our most recent podcast [podcast blog link, or direct download], but it’s so wave your hands in the air with closed eyes awesome that we think you deserve the full monty, rather than a version with 60 seconds of our blather on the top of it.

Pony Pony Run Run is another of the Western France scene, a love child, or perhaps godparent of, both Error Love and Anoraak — the latter of which, did we mention? (oh, only once or 15 times)… will be here next month at a Kunk/TCC party.

Boy/Girl Surrender is a synth-y summer-y happy fest that hopefully can blow up around some festivals this season. Someone bottle us some water from Nantes cos we here in Budapest can’t get enough of that smoothness.

Pony Pony Run Run - Boy/Girl Surrender (summer edit) [zshare] // Pony Pony Run Run - Boy/Girl Surrender (summer edit) [ysi]

That soft summertime pulse. Sandy blonde hair, slightly feathered, slightly… just messy. Lost in a mishmash of 8-lane highways. Having a vague plan to go “somewhere near Santa Monica.” Anoraak taps into that seemingly inbred French ability to consume, digest, reformulate, and spit back out sonically brilliant amalgamations of Southern California life in the early 1980s. Seriously, I’ve given up trying to understand how they do it. I guess Baywatch was good for something right?

You’ve probably already picked up this track floating around somewhere. It’s the harbinger of what I can only surmise will be a smooth-as-silk EP or album in the coming months. A tinge of the Knife at the front end, and a tinge of bang at the back, this track should satisfy the spectrum of your synth dance impulses.

Anoraak is hitting some various Western European parties in the coming months, so go check him out… if you’re in the neighborhood.

Anoraak - Nightdrive with You [yousendit]