Archive for the 'hercules & love affair' Category

Cut Copy’s Far Away Remixed

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Well, maybe the title is enough but a few words. Everyone knows Cut Copy, the Aussie cut copyband that made one of the best albums of the year and all summers. New single Far Away is gonna be available in digital format and in the UK and on 24th of November. Of course, Modular. As you can expect, there’ll be quite a few noteworthy remixes on the single: Aeroplane (with Hearts on Fire), Hercules & Love Affair, Damn Arms, Knightlife… Fucking great release. Down below I’m gonna share with you the Hercules & Love Affair remix (thanks to Waves at Night) and a non-official Hundreds and Thousands (thanks to them for sending us). We’ve been posting about both of them, obviously, Hercules is the bigger name but the Hundreds and Thousands one should’ve made it onto the release. With it’s cool ‘authentic disco’ feel and awesome synths underneath, this fits perfectly to the melancholic Cut Copy-sound. As you can expect, the Hercules one is pretty weird (kinda the Television and Talking Heads weirdness)  but brings the funky bass and the original is smoothly transformed into the unique Hercules-atmosphere.

mp3Cut Copy - Far Away (Hundreds and Thousands remix) [zshare] // [ysi]

mp3Cut Copy - Far Away (Hercules & Love Affair remix) [zshare] // [ysi]

Riton has a love affair with Hercules

Monday, March 31st, 2008

It wasn’t so long ago that we directed you to a fine pair of tracks put out by Hercules and Love Affair (DFA records). But we couldn’t pass up showing some love to Riton’s rub job on You Belong. The longtime London dj fave does a great job keeping the feeling of the original while injecting just the right level of energy. The result is a happy and bouncy tribute that is refreshingly mindless… in a good a way as that can be. H & LA have jumped the pond and are now playing some dates in the UK along with a selection of euro-festival dates. Could we see the sziget added to that? Hope.

Hercules and Love Affair - You Belong (Riton Remix) [zshare] // Hercules and Love Affair (Riton Remix) [yousendit]

It should be pointed out however that Kunk’s all time favorite Riton edit remains his stellar work on the Mystery Jets a couple years back.  Likewise we think it’s about time homeboy comes ’round Budapest for a guest set.

Mystery Jets - The Boy Who Ran Away (Riton Rerub) [zshare] // Mystery Jets - The Boy Who Ran Away (Riton Rerub) [yousendit]

A Herculean Effort

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Kunk had a gay old time throwing down the music last night’s Hungarian young designer shows at Godor Club. Our only regret is that we weren’t able to keep the packed house rocking afterward, but alas, we don’t write the rules. Big shout out to Room Mag for the hook up, we love ya girl. Cigi shown enjoying his beer as we anticipate the 8pm show.

Speaking of a gay old time, for the USE portion we picked out some Hercules action. The outfit which has permanently cornered the “Fabulous!” section of the DFA Records shelf.

Hercules & Love Affair - Athene

Hercules & Love Affair - Blind