Ok, that title’s really just a lazy way of justifying the inclusion of Fake Blood and Hervé in the same post, but you get the idea. Fake Blood is awesome, mysterious and has a highly anticipated single soon to be released on Cheap Thrills. Hervé is pseudonymous, prolific and runs the Cheap Thrills label with Sinden. And thus the link appears…

The reliable, if irregular Put The Needle On The Record just posted up a full version of the ‘Fake Blood Theme’, and it’s everything we could have hoped for from the man who nobody knows anything about (except for the fact that he is definitely not Boy 8-Bit). There’s always the worry that when remixers extraordinaire set down to solo production work the bareness of their ideas will be laid open to the world (MSTRKRFT anybody?). But this proves what we’d all suspected about Fake Blood: the tunes he was remixing were almost incidental to the brilliance of the final product. Here you’ll find plenty of squelchy, 8-bit fidget bass lines and messy rave breakbeats, overlaid, of course, by the ‘Fake Blood’ vocal sample. If this sets the scene for the rest of his output, then it is going to be a very good year for Mr Blood (although maybe he’s actually a woman… how very presumptuous of me) and, by extension, us. In the meantime, keep your eyes peeled for the single, because from all reports ‘Mars’ blows this tune out of the water.

And now to Hervé, who is perhaps my favourite (or at least the most consistent) of all the fidget-house crew. He’s just put out a remix single of ‘Bloodlines’ for Danish electro-rockers Dúné, and it’s a corker. Hervé’s remixing genius lies in his ability to preserve the personality of the original track while still filling it with his distinctive brand of fidgety mayhem. This is probably one of his more accessible remixes to date though, filled with plenty of the original’s guitars and vocals, and a break down taken straight from the ‘Bloodlines’ chorus. It’s out through Big Star Records and is available exclusively through Beatport in remix, instrumental and edit form. Get onto it.

Dúné – Bloodlines (Hervé Loves Messed Up Remix)

-luke