It’s been a big few weeks for Bertie Blackman. First she won Breakthrough Independent Artist of the Year at the Australian Independent Record Label Association Awards (a.k.a. the acronym defying ‘AIR Awards’. It’s sponsored by Jagermeister. Perhaps they just forgot some of their name). Then she won Best Independent Release at the Australian Recording Industry Association Awards (a.k.a. the far more semantically legitimate ‘ARIA Awards’). And now her next single ‘Black Cats’ has been remixed by Perth prodigy Shazam (previously seen here, here and here) and Sydney based party-starters Calling in Sick. I know which one I’d be more excited about. The ARIA. But the remixes are pretty rad too. Even better, we have them for you not one, not two, not even four, but FIVE days before their broad release.

That’s right, dear readers. You have yourselves an EXCLOOSIV. Stunning, I know.

Bertie by herself is an endearingly rambunctious indie-pop proposition with an edge of grit. With Shazam she’s a lazy afternoon assortment of arpeggiated sunshine synths. And with Calling in Sick she makes you feel like banging 2007 electro never ended. And with me, she’d be totally awesome, but she won’t respond to my very, very nice and in no way weird or intimidating sequence of love letters written in naught but Tolkein’s Elvish and magazine cut-outs. Bitch.

But the remixes are pretty rad too. Enjoy:

Bertie Blackman – Black Cats (Shazam Remix)

Bertie Blackman – Black Cats (CIS Remix)

-luke