This track is super old in blog terms, but care we not, we love the straight-outta-London hooded pair and Aeon is on the mark. Normally super hard and super heavy (for example on their remixes of Trash, and Space and the Woods), South Central have lightened the mood and come out soaring this one… a bit akin to the track by We Plants Are Happy Plants, which we blawgged about last week. Don’t get me wrong — homeboys are still spooky — but based on this track i expect we’ll see a good variety of styles on their upcoming album/collection of tracks, The Owl of Minerva.

SC will rip up the UK alongside Does It Offend You, Yeah? during the month of October. It pains me a bit to miss those shows — being located here on the continent and all that. But, usual drill, I haven’t a doubt that will change before long.

South Central - Aeon [zshare] // [ysi]

…is the name of a hungarian party which used to be drumnbass, now I have no idea what kinda music is on there cause it’s so annoying. On the other hand, Rewind is an awesome project of Buffet Libre DJs. They ask cool artists to cover and remix songs from the 80s. The first part of the project includes Dragonette, Moulinex, The Cloud Room, Frankmusik, Xinobi, CSK OK, Mono4, etc. And our beloved guest Anoraak did a cover of The Romantics. Jump over to Buffet Libre’s site, you can find a long list of artists and interesting q&a with them. Can’t wait for the second part, unbeatable stuff.

I chose to share South Central’s cover. Right, it’s a cover and not a remix. My two main reasons why I chose them were that the song they had chosen to cover is by Big Black which is fucking cool. Secondly the cover is like wow. It’s cruel and evil. Kerosene is a song from 1986, the debut album titled Atomizer. Actually, I - among many others - prefer their second one Songs About Fucking. Big Black was an experimental punk-noise band from the US. Experimental musically and in attitude. Provocative in every way. As South Central puts it: “Big Black were one of the early Punk/new Wave acts to mix electronic beats with Guitars and they had a cool DIY ethic, so it was a logical or natural choice for us.” And since SC would love Kraftwerk to do a version of one of their songs here’s a version of Kraftwerk’s The Model by Big Black. Btw Steve Albini, frontman of Big Black still rocks in Shellac.

South Central - Kerosene (Big Black cover) [zshare] South Central - Kerosene (Big Black cover) [ysi]

Big Black - The Model (Kraftwerk cover) [zshare] Big Black - The Model (Kraftwerk cover) [ysi]

The Wombats are a recent indie band from Liverpool, UK. They have their album out which is really cool and refreshing in the endless ocean of MTV2 bands. They have some hit singles and they climb the charts every time they produce a new one. And btw they are playing the Sziget on the 17th of August.

Backfire at the Disco is just going to backfire now. We like South Central, they made an awsome remix for The Whip and now they take the new - I think reissued - single from The Wombats and give it a heavy rave edge, it pulls like hell. Siren-esqe effects are definetly a signature. South Central = red alert. Vocals are nicely distorted and there’s even a melancholic guitar-slowdown part in the middle. This stuff was done with a lot of taste.

The Wombats - Backfire at the Disco (South Central remix) (zshare)

The Wombats - Backfire at the Disco (South Central remix) (y. s. i.)

South Central attacked the hit of The Whip. We’ve already posted about The Whip and now they have their full lenght out entitled ‘X Marks Destination’. They have a lot of attention from everyone.

South Central are a great act from Brighton, UK. They are not newcomers, they remixed Klaxons, Shy Child and Late of the Pier among others. They have a buzz on the blogs every time the produce something new either a remix or a song of their own.

This particular remix has the power of the original, modified vocals are insane and the added sirens are fucking awesome. I can imagine a dancefloor with red lights and an evacuation order in place that everyone ignores. Hardcore.

The Whip - Trash (South Central remix)