So I don’t think our love, or most others’ love for le Castles de Crystal need to be expressed to any greater extent… that is until Lazrtag’s re-work of Crimewave hit bloggaland. Lazrtag hail from Hollywood and their taste for remixes originals shows it: Britney Spears and Rihanna among others have been given brushwork by the lads’ laptops. The Crimewave edit is tops — gives it just the punch it needs for another ciruit on the dancefloors — or you can be sure on our dancefloors at least.

The CC album as a whole is on sale at your favorite local record store and even more conveniently on itunes, so hit them up and give support. My favorite of the lot that hasn’t been given so much attention is Reckless. Worth a listen, and more.

Crystal Castles vs. Health - Crimewave (Lazrtag Remix) [zshare] // Crystal Castles vs. Health - Crimewave (Lazrtag Remix) [yousendit]

Crystal Castles - Reckless [zshare] // Crystal Castles - Reckless [yousendit]

CFCF is a guy from Canada called Michael Silver. I knew that we would have to watch out for him in 2008 after he’d done the brilliant remix of HEALTH’s Triceratops. He has the taste to choose songs. For hipsters, the remixes of Crystal Castles and Justice are the most interesting stuff. However, now I’m gonna post two remixes that are newer and more surprising. The first one is Sunset Beach by The Teenagers and the other is an interpretation of a classic soulful disco hit from the 70s: Midas Touch by Midnight Star (video) Perfect music for tired moments of the day like dawn and dusk when nothing is clear, no strict lines, everything is blurry, and you only have feelings that you can’t put to words because you’re too tired but it’s all about half-smiles and melancholy.

The Teenagers - Sunset Beach (CFCF remix) (zshare)

The Teenagers - Sunset Beach (CFCF remix) (y.s.i.)

Midnight Star - Midas Touch (CFCF remix) (zshare)

Mindnight Star - Midas Touch (CFCF remix) (y.s.i.)

“You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can’t disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.”

“The idea is to turn it back on itself, it is in this fashion that reality is demolished. In the opinonatedness of Ubu, our will, importance, faith, all the things that are carried to paroxysm where we perceive quite naturally that they are made up of breaths from our flatulence, from meat which we make the candles and ashes, from bone with which we make false ivory and false universes. It is not ridicule. It’s an inflation, the brusque passage into an empty space, which is the thought of no one, cause there is not pataphysical thought, there is only pataphysical acid which sours and embaums like milk, swollen like a drowning victim et deflragrer like a greenish-blue truffle of the brains of Palotin. Pataphysics: philosophy of the gaseous state. It can only be defined in a new undiscovered language because too obvious: tautology. Better: it can only define itself by its own term, thus: it doesn’t exist. It turns around and around and rehashes the same half-assed incongruence, smiling stupidly, from girolles and decayed dreams.”

HEALTH - Triceratops (CFCF remix)