Composed of 2/9ths Ex-Protectors, 2/9ths(?) Ex-Ernest Ellis band, VEEN is showy, cosmic synth-pop that gives a wink and a nod to early Crystal Castles. Brand new Sydney music, see what you make of it:

M I N D V I R U S by V E E N

8 B I T L E O P A R D by V E E N

xMandu

Kyle Stewart, our bro from Hot Biscuits, has just dropped a mix for the Chicagoist series.
It’s deep and driving through UK Funky and tropical house n’ techno.
Download her below:

Chicagoist Mix #11 Kyle Stewart (Aug. '11) by Chicagoist

Tracklist

ITFW – Big Girl
LOL Boys – Bang Them
Joy O & Boddika – Swims (Alt)
J. Phlip – Bootyberg
Pearson Sound – Stifle
Beastie Respond – Syncopy (Blawan’s Tragt Mekanik)
Mosca – Bax
Roska – Abrupt
Cooly G – Oi Dirty (feat. DVA)
Cooly G – Cali
French Fries – Yo Vogue
Girl Unit – Wut (Claude Vonstroke’s Butt Naked Mix)
Karizma – Outta Control
French Fries – What To Do 2011
Hypno – War Demons (Julio Bashmore Remix)
Darling Farah – Varsity
Chaos In The CBD – Ima Do It Right
J Phlip – Drop Bombz on Your Momz

xMandu

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Brush up your retro house sets with vicious cuts from Paul Woolford, the man between the epically aggressive techno of last year’s Bloodline EP on Intimacy, has set free a raft of personal edits of classic house cuts.

Download them for a limited time here:

Classic Re-Edits Volume 1 / Downloadable by Paul Woolford

While on the PW tip, enjoy this long vinyl odyssey recorded at Planet E’s birthday bash at Berghain earlier this year:

Paul Woolford 20 Years Of Planet E @ Berghain / Vinyl Only / March 2011 by Paul Woolford

-Mandu

Emergency post!
Epic bang0r!

Download immediately to bang0rize your day! Sounds like Jokers of the Scene via old school D.I.M. Catastrophic, morbid and crunchy calamity wrapped in your favourite Three ‘n Twenty Bytes and Spices.

Lillica Libertine – Pentagram (original mix)

A few choice jams collated into a vaguely cohesive package of streams and downloads.
I’m having a real electro-pop resurgence this week, so pardon while I indulge and think about sunsets and soft top sports cars.

So Pacific! has written a neo-pop ballet based on the story of Narcissus, this is the first single ‘Unspoken’ as remixed by Valerie’s pin-up boy Anoraak:

Pacific! Unspoken (Anoraak Remix) by Vulture Music

Look a bit further and you’ll see a Moonlight Matters mix in the pack, Seba of course being one half of the (now defunct?) electro/disco power-duo from Belgium, Villa. Cue frantic car-chase and mammoth stair runs:

Pacific! feat. El Perro Del Mar – Unspoken (Moonlight Matters remix) by Moonlight Matters

Pacific!’s new release is out on Vulture right now

And those crazy Australian critters from Kids at Midnight are representing too:

Kids at Midnight – The Chase (Original Mix) by Vulture Music

Bam – enjoi.

-Mandu

I don’t know who Expensive Looks are/is – some guy called Alec from NYC who releases cassettes (hip) and makes psychedelic electronica (hipper) from his bedroom (hippest), but he’s made Gold Field’s track Treehouse very good lookin’ indeed. Driving disco shoegaze! Or is that disco shoegaze to drive to..?

Treehouse (Expensive Looks Remix) by Expensive Looks

Download it, it’s really nice. More gushing on Gold Fields here
And while you’re at it, listen to some Expensive Looks! Tell em’ Mandu sent you and you’ve got a 15% off groupon coupon for the bistro menu.

This one is most excellent:
Be My Own by Expensive Looks

This spin of DOM’s track Living In America is even MORE excellenter:

Living In America (Expensive Looks Remix) by Expensive Looks

-Mandu

Good lookin’ interview over at RA on Night Slugs, plus an amazing mix tape.

Download here

Tracklist below.

Particularly loving this jam which heads out the mix.. coming out very soon on Night Slugs.

Congrats to the boys Bok and Lvis who are both shredding it this year.
-Mandu

Tracklist
Girl Unit – Shade On
L-Vis 1990 – Forever You Dub
Egyptrixx – Liberation Front
Mosca – Square One VIP
Kingdom – Bust Broke
Girl Unit – IRL (Bok Bok Remix)
Jam City – Magic Drops
Lil Silva – Golds 2 Get
L-Vis 1990 – Reprise
Jam City – Arpjam
Velour – The Scent of Romance
Jacques Greene – (Baby I Don’t Know) What You Want
Optimum – Broken Embrace
Girl Unit – Wut

Your boys STEEP here again, we’ve taken another incongruous collection of tracks and asked ‘will they blend’?

They did, and the result is as superlatively ridiculous as you would imagine.

Swedish House Mafia vs. Robin S vs. Douster – Show Me The King Of One Love (STEEP Bootleg) by STEEP

Download here

I’ve been promised more proper Steep remixes very soon… very excited about that prospect.

Steep’s SUMMER FESTIVAL MIX 2010 – now with added incline.
Tracklist below.

-Mandu

So Sabi (Gregor Salto Edit) w/ Moby – JLTF (Chuckie Remix) (STEEP Mash-Up)
Will Bailey & Punk Rolla – Kata (Original Mix)
Squeeze – Doop (Club Mix)
The Squatters – On Fire (Original Mix)
The Partysquad vs. Afrojack vs. Crystal Fighters – Pull Up London (STEEP Bootleg)
Christina Aguilera – Not Myself Tonight (Laidback Luke Remix)
Deadmau5 vs. Benny Benassi – The Reward Is Some Satisfying Chords (STEEP Bootleg)
Afrojack – Pacha On Acid (Original Mix)
Lazy Rich – Discofukkr (Calvertron’s HCI Mix)
Freddy Stalker – Hey Bitch! (Chuckie Remix)
Adrian Lux – Teenage Crime (Axwell & Henrik B Remode)
Mark Knight & Wolfgang Gartner – Concindo (Original Mix)
Imogen Heap – Hide & Seek (Otto Knows Remix w/ Afrojack Remix)
Swedish House Mafia vs. Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through One (Keven Le Fonque Bootleg)
Chuckie – We Can’t Hear Anybody Out There (Original Mix) w/ Daddys Groove & Little Mark – Shorebreak (Magic Island Original Mix) (STEEP Extended Mix)
Albin Myers – Jump (Dabruck Klein Remix) w/ Bingo Players – When I Dip (Original Mix) (STEEP Mash Up)
Wynter Gordon – Dirty Talk (Laidback Luke Remix)
Artistic Soul – Sgueeze The Beat (Original Mix)
Gypsy & The Cat – Time To Wander (STEEP Remix)

Ignore the derivative, En Zed made video clip. This song from New Zealand’s ‘Computers Want Me Dead‘ is amazing:

Someone sign them and force them to change their name stat.

-Mandu

As you could probably tell from this post, I had no end of love for Fuck Button’s ‘Tarot Sport’ last year, and even went so far as to crown it my Album of the Year to anyone who’d listen. And I’ll tell you something for nothing, sure it can be kinda tough to pin them to the ground, but once you do, septuagenarians make for great listeners. They loved my lists. The album itself was almost unimpeachably brilliant, but the demands of the modern music world mean singles must be released, so a few weeks back the Buttons put out the fourth track, ‘Olympians’, on super pretty coloured 12″, replete with band designed Magic Eye cover art. Oooooh. Ahhhh. The track itself is 11 minutes of soaring, cascading, almost overwhelming electronica, so it’s not really the most “radio friendly single” on the planet, although the release does include a sub-4 minute edit just in case an adventurous radio station feels like butchering what is a really quite remarkable piece of sonic art for the demands of the audio broadcast format. NOOOO! MAKE THEM LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THING, YOU FOOLS!

There’s also a couple of obligatory reworks included, the most notable of which is a gorgeously understated and almost antithetical take on the piece by J. Spaceman of British shoegaze demigods Spiritualized. It’s a quiet, guileless and warming song, although the latter of those might just be because of the included fireplace crackles. Either way, a more different aural experience to ‘Olympians’ it is hard to imagine, but perhaps because of that it feels like a perfect and necessary counterpoint to the relentless assault of the original. Music for the long, hungover drive home, or for a silent moment with a new lover. Both of which really, really could not be said about ‘Tarot Sport’.

Fuck Buttons – Olympians (Spaceman vs. The Olympians Remix)

And just because it’s a) an incredible piece of dance music; and b) a fairly succinct symbol of how much influence the mighty Andrew Weatherall had on Tarot Sport, here’s his remix of ‘Sweet Love for Planet Earth’, off the ‘Colours Move’ single taken from their debut album ‘Street Horrrsing’. In a word: epic. In another, less real word: awse.

Fuck Buttons – Sweet Love For Planet Earth (Andrew Weatherall Remix)

The single is out through ATP Records, and can be purchased in 12″ and digital formats.

So, when are they coming to Australia then?