Despite the whole fading of Ed Banger’s glory, Kavinsky’s new EP is already under pretty heavy rain of hype. The heavyweights of French house are collaborating to make Pacific Coast Highway a super-product: mixed by SebastiAn, Nightcall produced by half of The Daft Punks…so it’s hardcore. If we add that this track even features CSS’s Lovefoxxx with vocals then no one should be surprised about the hype. The original is dark, La Boum disco-esque French house. First comparison might be Danger.
I wouldn’t personally give a shit about all of the above but since one of our favourite German producers sent us his remix of Nightcall, I decided to write a post. MMMatthias grabs the track, enhances the darkness, makes the whole into a heavier rolling experimental dream-disco anthem. Sounds much more original than the original itself. Love the chopped-up feel and vocalwork is perfect. It just drives me crazy what the synth melody which comes to the forefront at 0.56 reminds me of.
Btw Australia, catch MMMatthias on tour between 9th to the 19th of April with Trashbagskids. And you can pick up his James EP here.
Brandon is my witness, I can be quite a purist when it comes to remixing and covering classics. This doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate the taste and the effort, I just think it’s really hard to adequately touch a classic. On the other hand, I’m all for pop and easygoing stuff, still, it’s hard to be easygoing. Binary’s Short Circuit went for a huge fish with an attempt at remixing Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”. Binary’s dreamwave ‘brand’ pays off here: “Beat It” sounds weird and energizing at the same time. The synths are freshly retro and the whole disco pulse goes very well with the vocals that are among the most amazing of all times. So I’m quite happy to be happy with this remix. Since “Beat It” is a song I’ve been loving since I was 6 and even played out when I was djing for the first time, I could’ve been full of preconceptions and could’ve raised the bar impossibly high. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that The King would’ve loved this remix but it is certain that in a strange way it’d be a nice soundtrack for some heavenly moonwalking.
We’ve done quite a few previous posts on We Plants Are Happy Plants, and understandably so: first, as he’s producing soaring electro dance-ish tracks that are quite easy on our ears; and second, because he’s a Hungarian, sharing a home base with the Kunkers. Twilight of the Dawn builds up with a trance-hazed pastoral landscape, and sends you out to memory bliss, before gently nudging you back into moment with a splattering of autotune and a fluctuating beat. It never transforms into banger material, but that’s okay — think Mediterranean coast and sunrise.
The song is part of a 13-track collection of his music from the last 3 years (UITC), serving as the definitive summary of his work so far. He plans to take a departure from this style in the coming months — we’re eager to hear the result!
Our cut below is a choice one, but only 160 kbps. Pick UITC up in full 320 glory on iTunes or Amazon.
Not that his battery was ever low, but Aussie-land’s epic-synth magician returns with two such remixes that are superheavyweight dancefloor-destroyers. The older one is Barretso’s “We Won’t Stop” which - as everyone notices - is synth car-race in the Russ Chimes-esque vein. Redial here adds his heavy drumming and own synth-banging to make it a great instance of post-banger grandeur. The newer one was exlusively premiered on also at - where else? - Trashbagskids a couple days ago, and I hope they won’t mind me sharing it, I felt compelled since this remix of Miike Snow’s “Silvia” is so undeniably epic that a dictionary could feature a sound sample as an illustration next to the definition. The Swedish band were remixed by huge names like Fake Blood, Passion Pit and Crookers but so far this is my favourite. The minimalistic keys-vocals parts are substituted with the ultra-heavy synth-banging right after the tension is sufficiently built-up. Huge fucking explosion. One could argue that it’s cheesy, well, whatever, it got me. Expect it to appear in every Kunk set from now on. And watch out, Euro-land, Redial is on tour here from March. Also, tomorrow catch a preview of Redial’s new EP on Trashbags.
So in a couple days Kunk’s next edition is coming up, where we’ll have the brilliant Justin Faust aus München als Gast. Please be sure to RSVP at our Facebook event if you haven’t already done so and if you’re in Hungary. Of course, who’d be better to support the elegant disco-energy of Mr. Faust than Kunk’s favourite and chosen protegé, We Plants Are Happy Plants. WPAHP is our resident support guest for many many reasons. Everyone should probably have noticed by now that we are hardcore suckers for nu-sentimental synth originality and epic electronic creations. WPAHP delivers just that, every track tries to tell a tale, swimming on the synth sounds that evoke an ocean on another planet far far away. As many Kunk nights are witnesses, his live sets are perfect applications of his producing aesthetics to the dancefloor. Epic nu-disco night coming up, folks, epic. Just check out this CRJ remix, the tension escalates towards the stars, and in the end it breaks down in a fitting manner. Also, he has an official video and he donated a track to Buffet Libre’s & Amnesty International’s PEACE project. Check it out. Moreover, he has a compilation on Amazon/Itunes, popular tracks, unreleased stuff and new edits. Definetly worth your money and time.
After the brilliant Russ Chimes remix of the newest UK-star singstress Ellie’s “Starry Eyed”, the Italian fashionista, Monsieur Adi gave it a go and dropped it in our inbox. As much as this track is remixed, you really need to find the standout stuff and this is exactly of that sort. The remix is powerful and emotional. Besides the dancey parts, it has a nice dynamics of rises and falls which btw exactly fits the original cute-vulnerable vocals. Monsieur Adi seems to aim for tears under discoballs and on dancfloors.
I decided it was time to get back in the blogging game and who else is better for this purpose than one of Kunk’s favourite producers, CFCF of Canada. CFCF, to use a very forced stylistic description, represents the chillwave of electro. Also, he’s one of the few who can turn an rnb track into a dreamy synth-trip. One example of this is the remix Kingdom’s “Mindreader” which while keeping the original cheesy-dance spirit contains the fingerprint of CFCF. Another new remix takes Fabio Lendrum’s “Trouble”. CFCF already has an EP and an LP out and it is safe to say he’s established his own sound which is very characteristic and its atmospheric electro is one of the few electronic stuff that’s worth listening to throughout a whole album. This manifests in the “Trouble” remix as well, it’s laid-back and beautifully supports the Depeche Mode-esque vocals. All hail, CFCF! Thanks for the tracks to Bigstereo and Trashbagskids.
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
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.
One of Kunk’s favourite German producers, MMMatthias just sent us some tracks. One original and two remixes. His own track, Lies, is an awesome broken/sliced/chopped-up weird post-disco tune, following the Ed Bangerists like Justice and SebastiAn. Of course, Ed Banger is kinda under the radar now, not nearly as cool as it was 2 years ago but a comparison still can’t hurt and MMM’s track is from late 2007 anyway. Still sound fresh and new. Newer stuff includes a remix for a track on Boys Noize’s Power. Haven’t heard the original yet cause never was a big fan of BN but the remix is really surprising. It’s abstract spacey stuff. I mean, it’s not surprising because of MMM cause he can do things like this but wondering how is he able to transform the basically banging industrial electro of BN. As a result, it made me curious about Power. Third track is a remix of NightWaves which is on Binary’s LA Lights compilation that you can buy anywhere on the net now. Fascination is the weirdest of the 3 tracks I’m sharing now. It sounds even a bit tribal with the congas and the undecipherable vocals and has these strange otherworldy synth emerging from stellar dust. Actually, I could imagine this track for a Spore soundtrack. So all hail MMMatthias, he deserves it, this is truly unique and exciting production.
Btw. if any of you are interested in a good spot for tonight in Budapest, tonight is the night of the Room magazine’s release party @ Merlin. It’s an anniversary, we’re going to celebrate the 10th issue. Music-wise, DJs include Waxman, Zagar, Cécile Togni (FR), and our humble selves, Kunk. Flyer below.
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Nightcall produced by half of The Daft Punks…so it’s hardcore. If we add that this track even features CSS’s Lovefoxxx with vocals then no one should be surprised about the hype. The original is dark, La Boum disco-esque French house. First comparison might be Danger.
Kavinsky - Nightcall (MMMatthias remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]
one of the few who can turn an rnb track into a dreamy synth-trip. One example of this is the remix 
