Oh man, The Kills are just the perfect band for nearly anything. Like from garage-rock to dance and disco… Insane stuff (posts). Everyone in blog-world seems to know this so I’m gonna move on. This time James Rutledge from the UK was nice enough to send us his remix for Last Day of Magic. You might remember him cause he did some pretty cool edits a while ago. Like the over remixed MGMT and Electric Feel. Ok, this song had a Justice re-work but I would go with the Rutledge one, it’s more alive. And he also remixed The Whip and Dntel. In addition the weirdest thing ever: he made a 240 (!!!) minute remix for Radiohead’s Videotape which was issued on super-limited VHS (!!!). WTF? I adore these kind of ideas. I mean I’m not sure if it’s a great listen or whatever but it’s like pushing the boundaries of electronic music, industry, etc… But back to The Kills remix. This one does justice (no, not like that haha but like normally) to the original and to the title. Twisted and sterile, it sounds like a duet from a psychiatry institute and a crazy white-lighted room with four threathening walls. Monotonous but has gentle variations and it’s not too long. The tension just rises but never resolved. Awesome freaky disco track with even a Sonic Youth-feel to it. Download NOW!

The Kills - Last Day of Magic (James Rutledge remix) [zshare] // [ysi]

Vega aka Jay Vega out of Brooklyn has been popping up in a few spots and is sounding smooth to our ears thus far. Sure it’s the umpteenth billion Justice remix but why the hell not if you can deliver the goods. We pair it up with a track from the The Kills: one of those bands that cry out for more remixes, not because the originals are bad — on the contrary — but just that they tend to be ’sparse’. Black Balloon gets a nice widening out from this edit.

Take a gander at his so far pretty virginal myspace page and friend him up.  A self proclaimed product of too much TV and not enough jesus. Ha… lord knows aren’t we all?!

Justice - Valentine (Vega Remix) [zshare] //Justice - Valentine (Vega Remix) [ysi]

The Kills - Black Balloon (Vega Remix) [zshare] //The Kills - Black Balloon (Vega Remix) [ysi]

Oh wow. I love The Kills album. So fucking amazing. I mean like it’s really like dirty old garage rock with some added freakiness and phobias. Still, it’s not only that it isn’t outdated, it feels perfectly relevant. Sexy and dark, Midnight Boom is exactly what its title says. They had made an average album in 2003 when this kind of stuff was popular. Now that it’s not so much, they made an awesome record.

There are many things I like about Ed Banger’s SebastiAn. Ok, he’s hyped and everyone knows the RATM re-edit and Motor and maybe the Fool for Love remix too. However, he’s a guy from the banger crew who is constantly pushing boundaries. Seems like blessed with a cool taste he chooses music to chop-chop that is good. Like rock music and stuff. Not remixing a remix of a remix of a cover. And Dog for example is one electro-grindcore noise that can piss off a lot of people who are waiting for another perfectly beatmixed techno track on the dancefloor. I like it and that’s why I adore this remix of Cheap and Cheerful very much. Compare it to the Nite Cells edit who are like ok but they fucked it up. Or The Bloody Beetroots? Although I’m into them this one sucks. The Mathematikal rerub or The Videoband re-distortion don’t even deserve to be mentioned. SebastiAn had the taste to keep the hot rocking side of the song and twist it with his own sick disco. The breakdown at the end is brilliant.

The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful (SebastiAn remix) [zshare] // The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful (SebastiAn remix) [fileden]

The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful (Nite Cells Bored Robot remix) [zshare] // The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful (Nite Cells Bored Robot remix) [fileden]

The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful (The Bloody Beetroots remix) [zshare] // The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful (The Bloody Beetroots remix) [fileden]

The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful [zshare] // The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful [fileden]