Wanna hear an official proof that summer’s here? That is definetly Pony Pony Run Run‘s new tune: Hey You. France gives us the best mood-setters for summer on the indie-electro wave. After Phoenix’s album, PPRR will be the audience’s reminder of that. With this track PPRR is still going strong after previous Kunk-guest, Anoraak left them. It was a year ago that Kunk was totally absorbed in their Boy/Girl Surrender‘s summer edit. We even selected it for a French summer-blog-playlist at Streetkiss! It’s safe to say that PPRR is definetly a summer-vibe act. Hey You is elegant and fun, it’s subtle and energetic. Of course, it has a hint of grief for youth and love. Check the video below and see for yourself the summer-smoothness in Asia.

As for sayCet, I don’t think we have to introduce him to Kunk-readers. This time he brings a remix of Hey You (PPRR made a remix competiton out of it, ran by Fairtilizer) which is a really fit transformation of the original sound and mood. sayCet has the talent to make something very different look like that it could’ve been the original, if you know what I mean. His fingerprint epic-melancholy makes the remix a great pair for the original: we could like label the original ‘day/happy/dusk mix’ and the sayCet ‘night/sad/dawn mix’ or something like that. (The whole matter is not that simple, both versions are full of ambiguity but both are playing on the smiling sadness, sad smiles scale.) Echoes and jingling synths make up this unique rework which ends in sorrowful silence. Amazing.

Pony Pony Run Run – Hey You [mediafire] // [ysi]

Pony Pony Run Run – Hey You (sayCet remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

No, really, I just can’t. Fitting pair again this time: as you’re aware, there’s a Bloc Party remix album out there. They even have a remix contest. My new favourite, sayCet took Signs and made it even more haunting than the original. Overlapping vocals and disturbing jingling synths. The whole remix is full of life and beauty.

“I see sings now all the time

That you’re not dead, you’re sleeping

I believe in anything

That brings you back home to me”

Bloc Party – Signs (sayCet remix) [zshare] // [ysi]

After his Anoraak remix, I was blown away by sayCet. Now his management found us with his new stuff, a remix of Panda Bear and Phoenix‘s 1901. Interesting choices, one being a blog-favourite and the other a Pitchfork kinda altbro track. Nevertheless, I still believe that a good producer has to narrate his/her own story of influences with the remixes and other ways of using the tracks of others. sayCet is, with this criteria, still mindblowing. Beautiful soundscapes, dream-like atmosphere of foggy cotton candy planets floating alone in space. Both mixes are short and they deliver a subtle hit in during short time. And this is a great achievement, considering the huge difference between musical styles, and a power-demonstration: he can force his will upon any material he gets. You really have to watch sayCet this year.

Phoenix – 1901 (sayCet remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Panda Bear – I’m Not (sayCet remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

Oh, yes. My love for Anoraak just got renewed and I found a new love, the project called sayCeT. Jesus, the remix of Nightdrive with You is just mindblowing. For one, it manages to captures the essence of the original, the vocals and the sound. For two, it’s sooo different. Really, like a different track. This stuff should be impossible. The work on the vocal is amazing. The whole atmosphere got a epic, M83-esque edge. Confusing and sad, the melancholic aspect of the song was pretty much blown up in an intense dream narrative. The original song is about an actual drive at night. The remix is about a dream: a drive on the shore of the ocean, your reflection in the water, shifting between the waves that crash on the rocks, the blurred image on the same two-dimensional space as the sky and the stars. If the GRUM remix is the best for dancefloors, this one is destined to attract the sitting-at-home artistic part of your soul. sayCeT is Pierre Lefeuvre, a composer from Paris who is not obsessed with dance-sounds but the more artistic electro of, for example, Boards of Canada. He works with a VJ and a vocalist to create his production. Check out the original tracks and the Radiohead remix too!

Anoraak – Nightdrive with You (sayCeT remix) [zshare] // [ysi]