Kunks not dead! Seriously though, we’re alive and kicking and happy. Bloggy not so much. But back in the game again, we shall be. To prove our sincerity we’ve blended up a summer mix for y’all. Chock full of tunes that are rocking our world these days.
Hope you enjoy. Full tracklist after the jump!
As many of you are well aware, The Sounds have returned with a third album (get it here). I have two favourite tracks from it, one is
No One Sleeps When I’m Awake, the other is Beatbox. Both are high powered fighting-marching songs, that’s what I like about them. Especially the latter, it got me associating to Wagner combined with Rocky movie soundtrack. That’s the new wave rock part of the summer atmosphere. Chicago’s Hey Champ guys made a remix for this one. Now the remix is summer smoothness. I’m very surprised about the direction they made this song go. I mean, it’s such a perfect fit with a totally different soundscape. It’s relaxing, a bit funky, some Prince, even MJ (who’s alive btw), bit of soul and rnb… How is that possible? Hey Champ guys know the answer but if I were them, I’d keep the secret to myself. Going to follow them from now on, they are up in our alley with their synthy electro and indie. I kinda like these summer tracks. Summer in itself is sweat, the gas-smelled heat of the city, headaches, ugly people barely dressed and other wonders. These tracks make it look cool. I mean they are constructing the summer everyone wishes for and they conjure up tween memories which are romanticized and unreal to begin with. This is the fantasy summer and it only exists in the songs, books, etc.
The Sounds - Beatbox [mediafire] // [ysi]
The Sounds - Beatbox (Hey Champ remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]
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]
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