STREAM: Tom Williams & The Boat - Get Older (Golau Glau's Voice Of Man Remix)

Terrifying!  After their shimmery pretty Christmas album Golau Glau have produced this remix of Tom Williams & the Boat track Get Older.  The grizzled storytelling Tom Waits reference is there for the taking; Menlo Park were another band that did that recently and they were pretty good at it too.  This remix annihilates the original in a grim pall of electronic mist, pitching down the vocals, stretching thema little to make them loom larger and darker over the crackling bones of what's left of the guitar, a leathery thump all that remains of the drums; echoing piano and squaling noises set off creepier chills. The reverberating sample over the top makes it into a Hammer Horror radio short; excellent recontextualisation. Something totally different.





On top of that Golau Glau have their very own new track called Tiny Satellites, freshly posted onto Soundcloud which you can play, repeatedly to yourself glorying in the intimate beauty of it. The kind of sound you really want to keep to yourself so no one else dirties it.

Twin Shadow - Castles In The Snow (Com Truise Remix)

This is the best Twin Shadow remix I've heard yet, retaining everything about the original that makes it sublime and simply adorning it with a complimentary array of glittering accessories; twittering filters, scented trails of phaser, stuttering glitch, and ripped beats, that send it spiralling off into slightly altered dimensions of the hybrid 80's / nostalgia / electro / funk it started off as. 

Errors - A Rumour In Africa (Gold Panda Remix)

This is really cool. Awesome dance rock/electronics band Errors remixed by the equally excellent and intriguing Gold Panda - a man with subtle skills behind his laptop, some people taking time to fall under his spell, others getting their jaw dropped instantly.  Here's a combination of the two, from the Drownedinsoundcloud

Errors -  A Rumour In Africa (Gold Panda Remix) by drownedinsound

Glasser - Glad (Delorean Remix)

I'm slowly coming round to Glasser; in almost the same way as it took me time to get into School of Seven Bells, which she reminds me of  a vocally - a dreamy lilting lullaby kind of voice that swoons over every word. Maybe because it's getting colder and I'm feeling a bit cosier I can wrap up in this kind of sound more.  Spanish dance troupe Delorean have been around for a while, making balaeric beats with varying degrees of success, but it all comes together on this remix - both the Glaser vocal and Delorean's liquified remelding of the music.

The Ozmotron Remix Project

A very good friend of NFR - China based blogger Weejay, aka haonowshaokao (aka Food Tube) - is putting together a remix album of a record by two more mutual friends. I've pretty much lifted his blog post/open invitation for remixes, at his request.   I've made mine:

Why Doesn't The World Spin Up? (Meatbreak's Dr▲g Sub▼ersion Rescrub)

Ten years ago Simon and Eddie stayed up all night with a roomful of instruments and a 4-track machine and made an album called 'Ozmotron'. Nobody who has heard it can ever forget it (I think that mostly applies to the strange noises in Sandpants - permanent damage, rather than fond memories).

It's all here for download. Charging money for it seems a little unrealistic.

Track 1 - Sandpants
Track 2 - Why Doesn't The World Spin Up?
Track 3 - Monkey
Track 4 - Feet
Track 5 - Pink Elephant

So, anyway, as it's the tenth anniversary, Weejay's putting together a completely unnecessary Ozmotron remix album and is looking for contributions. This is the list of tracks, all download linked, that he's received so far:

Dave! - Sandpants Remix
c_kick - Fee Remix
Meatbreak - Why Doesn't The World Spin Up? (Meatbreak's Dr▲g Sub▼ersion Rescrub)
Rygo - Why Doesn't The World Spin Up Remix
Mr Pineapple - Pink Elephant (Pink Elephant Juice Remix)




I'm enquiring with you, all my NFR blog readers, to see if any of you would be up for reshaping these lowest of the lo-fi tracks into any form you please.  Mine is a totally beatless textural degrading, Mr Pineapple's is a subtly nuanced sophisticated folktronic kind of thing. There's also electro and speedcore - and whatever you come up with.

You can get in touch with Weejay at his blog, or Last.fm. Or send them to me and I'll pass them on.