M83 & DatA
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008It’s been quite a while since the new album of M83 came out. I really like M83 but I haven’t written about it so now, with the DatA remix of the new single, Kim and Jessie, I have a reason.
The fourt studio album Saturdays = Youth 
came out on 15th April. Anthony Gonzalez from France always made beautiful melancholic music from coming from behind the veil that separates us from the other world. The overture You Appearing is one of his best songs ever. According to Gonzalez, the album is about the 80s, the wasted youth, teenagers. Hip themes. Buy it here.
The next single will be out July 21. Kim and Jessie in the original is a weird pop song with extraordinary waves of instruments. Great stuff and no compromises, the catchy sound is a product of post-rock and shoegazing aesthetics. My Bloody Valentine jumps to my mind. He got remix-attention from hip acts like Yuksek for the previous single, for this, the DatA edit really fits. It strengthens the original otherworldly feeling but gives it a La Boum-esqe twist. DatA is a great guy btw, his remixes of Big Face, Tepr and Chromeo could rule the dancefloor. France at its best.
M83 - You Appearing [zshare] // M83 - You Appearing [ysi]
M83 - Kim and Jessie (DatA remix) [zshare] // M83 - Kim and Jessie (DatA remix) [ysi]
