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]

Warning! Coolness alert! We’ve already posted about GRUM a couple times but I think we haven’t mentioned Le Castle Vania yet. I first heard about Dylan Eiland when he remixed Kill the Noise’s Hey You and that was some amazing gasoline on the fire. Umm…he was remixed by The Toxic Avanger and LA Riots so the hipness-o-meter is just rising and rising exponentially. And of course, opening for Steve Aoki can never hurt for a successful dj-career. Dj Dylan remixed Snowden, 120 Days and the newest stuff is this GRUM song. Thanks to DiscoDust.

GRUM - Go Back (Le Castle Vania remix) (zshare) // GRUM - Go Back (Le Castle Vania remix) (y. s. i.)

This tune bangs and everything. Not better than the original, maybe it’s just fitted for a bit more dancefloor-madness. The sad thing is that I can’t not like it. Why wouldn’t I want to? Take a look at this photo:

Now take a look at this one:

Am I the only one who thinks that there’s something wrong with the universe? First I thought this is a joke. I mean WHAT THE FUCK? And it’s not just about looks. Or it is only about that. I must say that I would choose darkness. The whole thing is so artificially cheesy, it gives me the creeps to think about the future celebrity events, by then everyone will have a button on his hand to trigger a electronic orgasm…Burroughs-style. BiBaBiDi was so right: “Hack DJs clutter out clubs pretending to be the voices of a generation, but have no idea what the hell their generation is, who don’t give a rat’s, and haven’t an iota of a clue as to how to become relevant. Let’s just mosh in the meantime, right? Next time you consider checking out Le Castle Vania or Steve Aoki or Guns ‘n Bombs, resolve to staying home and watching Jeopardy at 3 AM. It’s better than walking into a club, immersing yourself in the noise and confusion, and fooling yourself into thinking it’s music.”

So yeah, you can download this one and bang it with superbass (which is okay, I do it sometimes) or jump a post backwards for the Hammer of Gods track.

Before mykunk got started, if you would’ve shown me a list of artist I would’ve blogged about and asked me to rank them in order of likelihood to appear — Arman van Helden would’ve been sorted somewhere near Nickelback…. that is: NOT VERY FUCKING LIKELY. But all that changed upon hearing the fuzzy/glitchy/electro version of You Don’t Know Me dropped by our faves, Grum. Thanks to him, the New York housemeister suddenly got all 2008 on our ass! And now i’m officially totally confused on how to behave when hearing the track. If muscle memory has a counterpart for music which exists in the brain, that part is flashing red when the first few strains arrive — “get off dance floor! incoming bros flashing belt buckles alert! order whisky and hide in corner and snicker!” … but the part in my brain appreciating the re-edit is like “wait, this is allright…i like this… don’t hide.” Do i like or not, am i alive or dead, it is the Schroedinger’s Cat of remix responses.

Arman Van Helden - You Don’t Know Me (GRUM Remix) [zshare] // Arman Van Helden - You Don’t Know Me (GRUM Remix) [yousendit]

We don’t really know too many bands from Switzerland. Now, with the awesome name of Love Motel, something caught our attention. They received quite nice remix treatment from the likes of Grum, Cryptonites, Baxter Bees and so on. Their name is not just for fun. They actually evoke a conceit with the dirty implications set in the 80s. They had their debut albums in 2005, now for their second they returned entitling it ‘Mind the Void.’ (Was out last year.) Check their remix myspace. In case you wanna download my two favourites, it’s below.

Love Motel - Mind the Void (Baxter Bees edit)
(y. s. i.)

Love Motel - Je Pleure (Cryptonites remix)
(y. s. i.)

Continuing our series of absolutely sick remixes from the UK. Revolte is a French duo (famous among other things for remixing Voyager by Daft Punk and being on a Kitsuné compilation). According to DiscoDust they rarely work face to face together, they do the stuff through the internet, and the two of them have completely different approaches to music. GRUM is a producer guy from the UK who had started with 80s funk stuff a while ago. So now the strangely named GRUM (after mixing Late of the Pier, Armand van Helden, Kings of Leon, Love Motel) took this already cool track and created a hybrid of dancefloor-filling electro and weird sounds, synths, chopped vocals, etc (kinda feels like a twisted SebastiAn rework). Check GRUM’s own tracks as well and the We Are Terrorists remix of the same Revolte track too.

Revolte - Ironical Sexism (GRUM remix) (zshare)

Revolte - Ironical Sexism (GRUM remix) (y. s. i.)