New Poney Poney remix and MSTRKRFT single.

Neither requires to many words. First one is from Poney Poney (our post about them). New single Cross the Fader produced by Justice guy Xavier is out on an EP with two awesome remixes. One by Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya and one by Headman. I’m gonna post the latter cause I like it more. I think Headman catches the original more (against the fact that BBYYY already did a remix for the Poneys).

Poney Poney - Cross the Fader (Headman mix) (zshare)

Poney Poney - Cross the Fader (Headman mix) (y. s. i.)

Second song is from MSTRKRFT. Even less words are needed to explain. Their EP entitled Bounce is gonna come out on Dim Mak (awesome label) on the 1st of April. There’s a “b-side” on the EP, Vuvuvu, which actually sounds like its title. Reminds me of a SebastiAn thing I heard called Motor. Seems like new electro sounds these days take engeneering metaphors to define themselves. I’m gonna post the radio edit of the new track which took me 3-4 listens to like it but I think it grows on me. I’m not really into the rapping stuff (provided by N.O.R.E.) but whatever, I’m sure it’s gonna be sold out really fast and will be played in every club.

MSTRKRFT - Bounce (feat N.O.R.E. - radio version)*

*taken down according to request. you can buy it here: RCRD LBL

Yes. It has finally happened. Tired of spending the past several years duking it out across thousands of miles using ‘airwaves’ and ‘the internets’, and riding the clarion call of Pnau’s Come Together, France and Australia have decided to cut loose from their tectonic plate positions and, er… come together… “in a warm region, roughly halfway between our respective musical ass-kicking nations,” according to an anonymous Ed Banger staffer.

Indeed, according to the latest satellite images, it now appears that France and Australia have picked up, left, and are close to merging off the African coast. The bold move emerged upon the back of Pnau’s latest blog/club hit, which successfully fused the happy ‘down under synth’ — elsewhere employed by fellow Aussie bands such as Cut Copy and Muscles — together with French Justice’s D.A.N.C.E. kiddie chorus. No word yet on whether the two countries will choose to adopt a third name, like Austench or Frail, to represent the new amalgamation.

A spokesman for Modular Records [Australia] elaborated: “This map reshaping makes perfect sense. For every life-changing, blog-quaking outfit the Frenchies can throw at the world, we have our own Southern Hemisphere equivalent. Sure, they’ve got the Teenagers. What-ever. We’ve got the Teenagers in Tokyo. And everybody knows that teenagers in Tokyo are the coolest teenagers in the world. They put on make-up and walk around Harajuku and stuff like that. What do plain old teenagers do? I’ll tell you: pop zits. And for God’s sake, Poney Poney. Are you kidding me? We have the New Young Pony Club. [UK band signed to Modular] That’s right, we have the club that all the poneys have to line up outside for, hoping to get admittance!”

He continued, “…and Justice thinks they changed the world by having kids singing? Come on, Pnau just handed that concept back to them on a platter. And there’s a lot more where that came from. We’re going to up the ante — with infants.” The spokesman then shed light on Australia’s plans to assemble the world’s first infant chorus. The 12-month-olds will be brought together “to record a variety of background gurgles and proto-language squeals that will be archived and made available for all of Australia’s recording artists to choose from for future song choruses.”

The Ed Banger staffer was more magnanimous: “…our Aussie brothers have talent, we’ll admit, but that’s why we wanted to undertake the move and attach our countries. This will give us the chance to outshine them right from their own backyard.” Adding, however, that “there may be some interbreeding.”

Ed. note: Oh yeah, the song kicks ass. Bring on the infants!

Pnau - Come Together (zshare) // Pnau - Come Together (YSi)

AM radio. Backseat. Father’s car. Early 80’s. Southern California. That is: my upbringing.

How is it that the French seem to grasp the concept of that era better than Americans? I guess it’s that whole ‘perspective’ thang. I remember the Air video for All I Need blowing me away on how crazy accurate it was. Fast forward 10 years and Poney Poney are pumping out cassette deck rock as good as any Yank. I’m not even sure they’re doing it intentionally — but whatever — the result is sublime. A syrupy beautiful nostalgic dream for Brandon involves having a hazy lazy afternoon spent at the US festival (which I was too young to attend in reality), making out with some acne-faced girl, trying to touch her in inappropriate places, and totally getting rejected for that, and totally not caring, because Poney x2 was playing in the background (even though they weren’t alive yet).

She Began Telling Me Secrets is an amp raiser, and loving it that way.

And Genesis totally should’ve played the US festival… Woz, how could you deny them?!?

Poney Poney - She Began Telling Me Secrets (demo)

Genesis - Throwing it All Away