CFCF is a guy from Canada called Michael Silver. I knew that we would have to watch out for him in 2008 after he’d done the brilliant remix of HEALTH’s Triceratops. He has the taste to choose songs. For hipsters, the remixes of Crystal Castles and Justice are the most interesting stuff. However, now I’m gonna post two remixes that are newer and more surprising. The first one is Sunset Beach by The Teenagers and the other is an interpretation of a classic soulful disco hit from the 70s: Midas Touch by Midnight Star (video) Perfect music for tired moments of the day like dawn and dusk when nothing is clear, no strict lines, everything is blurry, and you only have feelings that you can’t put to words because you’re too tired but it’s all about half-smiles and melancholy.

The Teenagers - Sunset Beach (CFCF remix) (zshare)

The Teenagers - Sunset Beach (CFCF remix) (y.s.i.)

Midnight Star - Midas Touch (CFCF remix) (zshare)

Mindnight Star - Midas Touch (CFCF remix) (y.s.i.)

Yes. It has finally happened. Tired of spending the past several years duking it out across thousands of miles using ‘airwaves’ and ‘the internets’, and riding the clarion call of Pnau’s Come Together, France and Australia have decided to cut loose from their tectonic plate positions and, er… come together… “in a warm region, roughly halfway between our respective musical ass-kicking nations,” according to an anonymous Ed Banger staffer.

Indeed, according to the latest satellite images, it now appears that France and Australia have picked up, left, and are close to merging off the African coast. The bold move emerged upon the back of Pnau’s latest blog/club hit, which successfully fused the happy ‘down under synth’ — elsewhere employed by fellow Aussie bands such as Cut Copy and Muscles — together with French Justice’s D.A.N.C.E. kiddie chorus. No word yet on whether the two countries will choose to adopt a third name, like Austench or Frail, to represent the new amalgamation.

A spokesman for Modular Records [Australia] elaborated: “This map reshaping makes perfect sense. For every life-changing, blog-quaking outfit the Frenchies can throw at the world, we have our own Southern Hemisphere equivalent. Sure, they’ve got the Teenagers. What-ever. We’ve got the Teenagers in Tokyo. And everybody knows that teenagers in Tokyo are the coolest teenagers in the world. They put on make-up and walk around Harajuku and stuff like that. What do plain old teenagers do? I’ll tell you: pop zits. And for God’s sake, Poney Poney. Are you kidding me? We have the New Young Pony Club. [UK band signed to Modular] That’s right, we have the club that all the poneys have to line up outside for, hoping to get admittance!”

He continued, “…and Justice thinks they changed the world by having kids singing? Come on, Pnau just handed that concept back to them on a platter. And there’s a lot more where that came from. We’re going to up the ante — with infants.” The spokesman then shed light on Australia’s plans to assemble the world’s first infant chorus. The 12-month-olds will be brought together “to record a variety of background gurgles and proto-language squeals that will be archived and made available for all of Australia’s recording artists to choose from for future song choruses.”

The Ed Banger staffer was more magnanimous: “…our Aussie brothers have talent, we’ll admit, but that’s why we wanted to undertake the move and attach our countries. This will give us the chance to outshine them right from their own backyard.” Adding, however, that “there may be some interbreeding.”

Ed. note: Oh yeah, the song kicks ass. Bring on the infants!

Pnau - Come Together (zshare) // Pnau - Come Together (YSi)

Blamma! Blamma! are an electronic duo from London. They are extremely talented remixers and seems their own sounds are great as well. Much more exciting than lot of the djs/whatevers from France or Germany. Fresh noise in an electronic scene that will witness a small fall of a small empire soon.

Blammas had a hit song that was never out on a record properly. Now in April they are gonna make up for that and have their first EP released. Meanwhile they have killer remixes of great tracks. They are not traditional, actually, they kinda destroy songs but it is exciting and will make a huge impact on the dancefloor. Oh, sorry, I didn’t mention it? We invited them to play a set here.

Here’s a lot of stuff from them. You might wanna start with the Rival Joustas remix cause then you’ll listen to everything else by them.

Rival Joustas - Clarity (Blamma! Blamma! Clear as Mud mix)

Blamma! Blamma! vs Maximo Park - Terminal Velocity

The Teenagers - Starlett Johansson (Blamma! Blamma! Scared of Spiders mix)

Blood Red Shoes - It’s Getting Boring By The Sea (Blamma! Red Shoes mix)

Scanners - Raw (Blamma! Blamma! Scanner! mix)

Headland - Dodging Sisters (Blamma! Blamma! remix)

Headland - Love/Hate (Blamma! Blamma! Morgasm mix)

Blamma! Blamma! vs Jay-Z - Merry X-mas Jigga Man

Their own song:

Blamma! Blamma! - Carry Me Home

And lastly, here’s their appearance mix from XFm:

The Re:mix, Friday February 2, 2007 (Blog entry with tracklist.)

Super-hyped band The Teenagers finally released their debut album entitled ‘Reality Check’ only in digital format and the real thing follows in March. Okay, everyone reported this, but nevermind. This had to be posted.

After a couple of listens the album is great. Not full of surprises though. More or less it’s the same sound you could anticipate from the singles. However, the concept is awesome. I think The Teenagers managed to get so huge cause of their imagery. Teen girls and boys, movies, music, drinking vodka, etc. It of course has the twist of ironic nostalgia. This perfectly fits the lo-fi sound, the stupidly simple electronica and spoken, monotonous vocals. This is the reason to love it. It’s elegant, innocent and dirty at the same time, funny and self-aware. The cover of the album, the title, the song titles, everything’s in its right place. It’s perfect for one shot but it’ll be boring on the next if they’ll do the same.

I chose a song that is the most surprising on the record: it’s the last one. It’s a sad one. It reminds me of something totally different. Like a song from a totally different genre or age. It’s fucking annoying that I can’t remember. Someone help me what is it?

The Teenagers - End of the Road

Everyone’s favourites, The Teenagers, have a new single and video out. Two remixes accompany it. One made by Blamma! Blamma! hip electro act from London, the other by Connan and the Mockasins. The first is too long and can easily get boring so though I’ve never heard of the latter but I’d prefer theirs cause it’s still cute and funny. Not just the vocals but the whole sound is so monotonous and ironic that it must be loved. It’s like a retarded boy singing. So stupid yet I can’t do anything but relate to it and be jealous of Josh Hartnett. It drags me along. Being in love makes you retarded.

ps. FUCK YOU, Josh!

The Teenagers - Scarlett Johansson (Blamma! Blamma! Scared of Spiders mix)

The Teenagers - Scarlett Johansson (Connan and the Mockasins remix)