Hold up the crazy train and lock up your pets and the fragile elderly, because the Bag Raiders are coming and they are a, um, menace to, uh, pets… and the fragile elderly…

When I began that sentence I thought that I’d come up with a better way to finish it. I really did.

Sigh.

The Bag Raiders! Mighty scions of Australian electro! Purveyors of pounding house music! Potential petty thieves! Since 2006 the Bag Raiders have gone from being iconic early adopters of the Australian electro scene to being the remixers de jure of 2007 blog house to being Modular signed, national radio played, internationally touring dance party kings. It’s been a solid few years, really.

Most recently though, they’ve taken a break from remixing in order to drop their new single, and first release for Modular, the gentle, sunny and oh so Cut Copy ‘Shooting Stars’. It’s a fair cry from their usual balls-to-the-wall electro stylings (see, for example, previous singles ‘Turbo Love’ and, of course, ‘Fun Punch’), but it’s a lovely, Balearic piece of pop nonetheless and is being well rewarded with radio play from, well, pretty much everywhere. In support of the release they’re touring all around the country and, most pressingly for our purposes, find themselves at Roxanne this Friday, ripping the club apart with none other than the mighty Ajax. The DJ, not the cleaning product. It probably goes without saying though that this party will be rather massive.

Tickets are $20 from Moshtix, BUT we here at Electrorash have a double ticket to give away to one lucky reader who can tell us in five words or less what the best thing they’ve ever raided is. Answers to music@electrorash.com with the subject line Bag Raiders. Natch.

But if you need further temptation, then here’s Kris Menace’s remix of Shooting Stars, which pretty much just picks up the sun-drenched vibe of the original and takes it to its logical, sunset-at-the-beach-with-all-your-friends conclusion. Really lovely.

Bag Raiders – Shooting Stars (Kris Menace Remix)

Although I’ll always remember the Bag Raiders, because they were responsible for one of the first pieces of music I ever picked up from the early music blog scene, their funky but cryptic 8-bit rendering of LCD Soundsystem’s ‘Daft Punk is Playing at My House’, which was named, aptly enough, ‘Daft Punk is Playing on My Nintendo’. It’s hard to know how many people ever actually heard it, so I’m including it here for curiosities sake, but I’m sure we can all agree they’ve gone on to bigger and better things…

Bag Raiders – Daft Punk is Playing on My Nintendo

Yes, curious…

-luke