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Win VIP tickets to see Bent
After two years away, Bent return with a new best of compilation and a special album launch show next month. 'The Best Of Bent' will be released on 20 Jul, and on 22 Jul they will take to the stage at newly re-opened Garage in London to celebrate. Support will come from Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and there will be DJ sets from Sister Bliss and Mighty Mouse.
We have three pairs of VIP tickets, which get you access to a VIP lounge and a £10 drinks voucher, to give away. All you need to do is email competitions@remixupdate.co.uk by 6 Jul to be in with a chance of getting your hands on them.
Early bird tickets are available now for just £8. Click here to buy them.
My festival diary
Oh what a lovely time we had. The threat of a monsoon never materialised, and Glastonbury 09 will go down as one of the best I think. Looking back at it, it's a really shit huge festival, with a LOVELY little festival tagged onto the bottom right hand corner.
Regrets? Certainly. Plans always vaporise at that place because of the size. Missing Enter Shikari, who have won me over with 'Juggernauts', and not getting to see Bat For Lashes and Blur was all very disappointing.
Triumphs? Certainly, and you can read them as they unfolded below, as rather than give you a précis, I thought it would be more interesting to just show all the Tweets I sent while I scoured the festival to my small circle of followers on Twitter. Technology is amazing. On the one hand there were people following me onsite, and on the other, people at home reacting to what they were seeing on the telly... it's incredible. Those clever Victorian inventors would be so in awe of all this.
The only thing I'll add to the Tweets below is that Hideous Wheel Invention texted me after seeing Pendulum on Saturday night. He's been to every Glastonbury since the 1980s and in his words: "I've NEVER seen anything like that on this stage". The weekend belonged to Pendulum, and to Florence And The Machine. Right there, that encapsulates it... the new Metallica... and the new Tori Amos, in the same place, almost at the same time.
Oh and one random thing I thought but didn't get round to Tweeting: Why are there no dogs at Glastonbury? That's one thing I love about Secret Garden, those doggies, often in fancy dress. And it made me think: that lovely little festival tagged onto the big shit one... the WHOLE of Secret Garden Party is like that. I think they're going to sell out this week, so I'd get your skates on with getting your tickets if you haven't done already.
26 Jun
12.19pm: Glastopacking: I've found that awesome battery powered air pump for the lilo but where the f**k did I put my sleeping bag?! Gah!
12.23pm: A spare tent? Where did that come from?? I just need a chuffing sleeping bag... where IS it!?
12.43pm: Thanks Rose Bruford Ball for booking me tonight, so by the time I get to Glasto, no queues to notice I have my son's Spiderman sleeping bag.
27 Jun
9.07pm: Saw a bit of Dub Pistols at sunset - nice - but Florence + Machine: wow. Never seen a better Glasto turn than that.
9.28pm: Pendulum on the other stage. God they deliver. Massive crowd, great sound, feels like the whole festival is here. It's like a rocket up Glastonbury's arse.
9.49pm: It has to be The Boss on Pyramid stage next, but my gosh he's got a tough act to follow after Pendulum.
10.52pm: Bruce was light on hits and got boring, now seeing a very slick Ed Byrne in the Cabaret tent. I remember him from MTV days, lovely, funny man.
11.20pm: Seeing a tight and utterly charming Wonderstuff at Avalon. Gareth Pendulum wants to hook up, that boy is trouble.
28 Jun
12.46am: Missed Alex Metric, gah! Freeland at Arcadia now. This place is insane, it's like flaming Mordor!
2.44am: Favourite random sign, hand held: 'SHIT CAMERAS £1'
3.01am: Drag Strip is rocking, Ebony Bones is really good. That's Andy from Primary 1 on keyboards. I'm about to go on. Pumped.
4.57am: Wow that was fun. Just staggered out the tent to that slightly depressing Ibiza feeling of daylight when you least expect it.
4.58am: Right. Which way to the Stone Circle? 'Follow the sound of the bongos...'
12.32pm: God it's so hot in this tent. I feel like I'm in a Turkish wrestler's jockstrap.
12.37pm: I need something's juice.
1.30pm: Don't be tempted by the 'All Day Breakfast in a Giant Yorkshire Pud or Breadie' its like being given brekky in someone's hat.
2.46pm: A man juggling ping pong balls... in his mouth. Awesome. Six balls in the air. This man is better than Bruce Springsteen.
4.26pm: Ew. it's the Sunday turd lottery. What will we find behind *this* random door?
5.03pm: From afar, I thought the lead singer of Enter Shikari looks really gay... turns out it's Karen O. Damn. How were they?
5.34pm: Ran into Scroobius Pip and noticed, in the sunlight, how *beautiful* he is. Without the comedy beard I think he could have been a model.
5.35pm: More beardy models please.
7.26pm: Breaking camp. Worst bit. Have to head home. Gutted to miss Blur.
29 Jun
11.18am: It's such a lovely day but I still feel like a stunned mullet.
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Remix All-nighter
We reckon two months is about long enough to recover from the last Remix All-nighter. Those of you who haven't recovered by then will just have to soldier on through it, because we're doing it anyway. Eddy has come up with another amazing line-up, which this time features live music from Ladytron and Japanese Popstars, plus DJ sets from Orbital's Phil Hartnoll, Alex Metric, Punks Jump Up and Matrix & Futurebound. What's more, if you book tickets now, you'll get in for just a fiver!
Date: 17 Jul
Venue: Matter, The O2 Arena, London
Entry: £5 adv / £10 door
More info: www.matterlondon.com
Buy tickets here
FWD>> vs Rinse
Rinse FM and dubstep night FWD>> will be taking over Matter to celebrate the former's 15th birthday on 31 Jul. And they've got quite a line-up to come and soundtrack the party. Just take a look at this: Skream vs Benga, Ms Dynamite, Kode9, Geeneus, Magnetic Man, Caspa, Boy Better Know feat. Skepta, JME, Frisco & Maximum (Live), Crazy Cousinz, Marcus Nasty, N-Type v Youngsta, Newham Generals (Live), Katy B (Live), Chef, Spiro vs Silencer vs Vectra, Zinc, Circle, and Slimzee. Awesome.
Date: 31 Jul
Venue: Matter, The O2 Arena, London
Entry: £15 adv
More info: www.matterlondon.com
Buy tickets here
44 presents King Cannibal
Watch out Cumbria, things are about to get dark. King Cannibal is coming your way. The King Of Darkness will be headline 44 at the Roxy basement bar in Ulverston on 7 Aug. Also in attendance will be Akira Kitechi, Mister Sushi, Shengi and Jaim. For our more northerly Remix fans, this will be a real treat.
Date: 7 Aug
Venue: Roxy Basement Bar
Entry: £6 adv/£8 door
More: www.myspace.com/44breaks
Get Loaded Dim Mak stage
Dim Mak Records are hosting a stage at this year's Get Loaded In The Park festival on Clapham Common in London in August. With them they are bringing The Count & Sinden, Felix Da Housecat, Crookers, Junior Sanchez, who will all perform live, as well as Dim Mak main man Steve Aoki and The Bloody Beetroots, who will provide a DJ set.
Venue: Clapham Common
Date: 30 Aug
Entry: £35 + booking fee
More info: www.getloadedinthepark.com
Eddy's upcoming DJ/live dates
10 Jul: Razzmatazz, Barcelona (Losers live)
17 Jul: Glade Festival (Losers live)
17 Jul: Remix All-nighter at Matter, London [tickets]
18 Jul: Bug Jam Festival (Losers live)
26 Jul: Secret Garden Party
2 Aug: Standon Calling
14 Aug: Sugarbeat at Brixton Jamm, London
22 Aug: V Festival
30 Aug: Get Loaded In The Park, Clapham Common
6 Sep: Judgement Sunday at Eden Ibiza, San Antonio
18 Sep: Remix All-nighter at Matter, London
24 Oct: Elastico, Madrid
13 Nov: Remix All-nighter at Matter, London
14 Nov: Godskitchen, Birmingham
20 Nov: Remix Arena at Big Reunion, Skegness
21 Nov: Big Reunion main stage, Skegness
27 Nov: Remix Arena at Big Reunion, Skegness
28 Nov: Big Reunion main stage, Skegness
4 Dec: Remix Arena at Big Reunion, Skegness
5 Dec: Big Reunion main stage, Skegness
autoKratz
So, this week autoKratz crammed together ten minutes of tunes for us. The brilliant tracklist (which also featured snippets of their own 'Pardon Garcon' between tracks) can be seen below. Eddy also interviewed David from the duo. Be sure to listen again if you missed it.
autoKratz All Time Top Ten mix tracklist:
Beck - Devils Haircut
Crystal Castles - Xxzxcuzx Me
Sonic Youth - Drunken Butterfly
Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes (Jagz Kooner Mix)
Underworld - King Of Snake
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night
Blur - Beetlebum
The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
All Time Top Ten Top Ten:
1. Wizard - 204 tracks
2. Wrongtom - 101 tracks [download]
3. Stereo:Type - 64 tracks
4. Slyde - 54 tracks
5. Stereo:Type - 41 tracks
6. King Cannibal - 30 tracks [download]
7. The Qemists - 29 tracks
8. Chase & Status - 27 tracks
9. The Shortwave Set - 25 tracks
10. South Central - 23 tracks
All Time Top Ten Special Editions Top Ten
1. NAPT - 85 tracks
Glasto Special - Friday 26th Jun
Eddy says: "This week sees a unique four hours of music radio, a Remix Glastonbury Special, featuring mostly artists from this year's bill and a few random, personal Glastonbury memories, like Jeff Buckley smiling at me and seeing The Verve blow up their guitar amp and just jam in the sunshine with bass and drums. By the way, I recorded this on Thursday morning, hence no mention of Jacko, but I presume by Friday night you were probably glad to find a Jacko-free-zone somewhere".
Oasis - Falling Down (Prodigy Remix) (Big Brother)
Kasabian - Club Foot (Losers Remix) (Botchit & Scarper)
The Prodigy - Take Me To The Hospital (Losers Middlesex A&E Remix) (Cooking Vinyl)
The Qemists - Lost Weekend (feat. Mike Patton) (Ninja Tune)
MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Remix) (Columbia)
The Cure - A Lullaby (Universal)
Crookers vs Kid Kudi - Day & Night (Data)
Radiohead vs Evil Nine (Evil Nine Unreleased Battleweapon)
La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream Remix) (Polydor)
ALL TIME TOP TEN: autoKratz
INTERVIEW: David Cox from autoKratz
Orbital - The Box (Live At Glastonbury) (BBC/ACP Recordings)
Eric Prydz - Pjanoo (High Contrast Remix) (Data)
Deadmau5 & Kaskade - I Remember (Caspa Remix) (Virgin)
Kissy Sell Out - This Kiss (Jack Beats Remix) (San City High)
Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone (Columbia)
Utah Saints - Lost Vagueness (Deadly Avenger's Infantile Vocal Mix) (Echo)
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Letter From God To Man (Sunday Best)
Alex Metric - Head Straight (Marine Parade)
The Verve - A New Decade (Hut)
Josh Wink vs The Rapture - Higher State Of Jealous Lovers (Erol Alkan Edit)
Maximo Park - Terminal Velocity (Blamma! Blamma! Remix)
White Lies - To Lose My Life (Tommy Sparks & The Fury Remix) (Fiction)
Oasis vs Jay Z - 99 Wonders (Different Strokes Mashup)
Amanda Blank - Might Like You Better (Co-Op)
Tommy Sparks - She's Got Me Dancing (Universal Island)
The Whip - Sister Siam (Southern Fried)
Hockey - Too Fake (The Shoes Remix) (Virgin)
Blur - Song 2 (Parlophone)
Timo Maas - Shifter (Perfecto)
The Temper Trap - Science Of Fear (Mistabishi Remix) (Infectious)
Frankmusik - Confusion Girl (Frankmusik's Loner Remix) (Island)
Elbow - Grounds For Divorce (V2)
Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers (Dirty Stank)
Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy (XL)
Enter Shikari - Juggernauts (True Tiger Remix) (Ambush Reality)
The Japanese Popstars - We Just Are (Gung Ho!)
GLASTO REMIX REWIND
Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You (Columbia)
Dub Pistols - Problem Is (Distinctive)
The Streets - Weak Become Heroes (679)
Pendulum - Slam (Breakbeat Kaos)
DJ Fresh - Nervous (Sub Focus Remix) (Botchit & Scarper)
GLASTO BEDROOM BEDLAM: Trash City Allstars
GLASTO DARKSIDE
Caspa - Riot Powder (Sub Soldiers)
Chase & Status - Eastern Jam (Ram)
Freeland - Do You (Joker Remix) (Marine Parade)
Listen Again at xfm.co.uk
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Grum
Grum has been a regular on the show for some time now, thanks in no small part to the number of world class remixes he's put together in the last couple of years. Now pushing his originals though, he releases his new single, 'Sound Reaction', on 6 Jul via Heartbeats. The follow-up to previous single 'Runaway', the track is taken from his debut album, which is due for release later this year. We caught up with him to ask a few questions and find out more.
How did you start out making music?
Roundabout 99/2000. When I was pretty young, I remember hearing lots of electronic music in the charts and stuff. This got me interested in how to make it and I got this Yamaha DJX keyboard. I made some dreadful tunes. I kept practicing though, and studied Music Tech at uni. I eventually moved from Fruityloops to Cubase while messing around in different genres, leading up to the nu disco/electro stuff which I've been focusing on for the last couple of years.
What inspired your latest single?
Basically I just wanted to make a really big club tune. Obviously with the sample used it's a bit tongue in cheek, its almost like post-post-electro-banger "I know this is silly but what the hell, let's go for it!"
What process do you go through in creating a track?
It can vary really. Sometimes I'll find a sample I really like and build up music around it. Or sometimes I hear a chord progression I'm into and recreate it, then make it into my own thing. If I'm using samples I like to cut them up and re-arrange them, I'm not into lifting entire loops from other people's stuff. Bizarrely when it comes to arranging the tune I can end up changing it completely, and it usually ends up sounding much better.
Which artists influence your work?
I'd say my stuff is a real mash up between French house, Italo disco, new wave, and soft rock. I'm really into melodies and clever chords. Big influences for me are Fleetwood Mac, Aeroplane, Daft Punk, Toto, and the Human League.
What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
I hope you like it...?
What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future?
Well this is my first album, so really I just want people to enjoy it and for it to be a success. Having people enjoy my music is just the best feeling. In the future I obviously want to carry on producing original material, and would love to dabble in producing for other acts.
Grum online: MySpace, Facebook, Last.fm, Spotify, Twitter
Buy Grum music: iTunes, Amazon
Trash City Allstars
Friday's Bedroom Bedlam mix was put together by the people behind Trash City, the coolest area of the Glastonbury Festival and the one where Eddy DJ-ed at the weekend.
Here's the tracklist:
Hooligan Night - Bamboo Hut
Santogold - Creator
Monster Zoku Onsomb - Eat Brains
Pendulum - Fasten Your Safety Belts
Freestylers - Painkiller
And here's a little bit of info: "Trash City is Glastonbury Festival's very own intergalactic red-light district where space pirates, bootleggers, illegal aliens and all the scum of the universe can come to party the night away. Featuring Mutoid Waste Co's all-new human pinball table and a nightly wacky-races parade, Ruby Blues' vampire stripclub The Dragstrip, The NYC Downlow travelling Gay disco and all manner of other wrongness...open from dusk 'til dawn".
For more, go to: www.myspace.com/trashcityltd
Want to get yourself on The Remix, like Trash City Allstars?
All you need to do is create a 15 minute mix (sort of like the All Time Top Ten mixes, but longer, or like the Superchunk mixes, but shorter). Cram in as many tracks as you like, but try to be as inventive as possible, as it's the sets we're most impressed with that will make it onto the show. Try to keep swearing out of it (although a little mild swearing is okay), and remember to include a full tracklist and a paragraph about yourself, too (there is space to include this info when you upload your file).
When you've put all the finishing touches on your set, upload it to our SoundCloud Dropbox at www.soundcloud.com/the-remix/dropbox
The Remix is one of Xfm's longest running specialist shows. Each week you will find the artists and songs you love from Xfm daytime like you've never heard them before, reworked, rerubbed and, well, remixed for the dancefloor. You'll find the best indie remixes, plus the best in bootlegs, breaks, electronica and quality dance music, basically dance music that rocks.
The Remix was created and is presented and produced by Eddy TM, a true pioneer of dance music that rocks. You can hear the show every Friday at 10pm, across London on 104.9FM, across Manchester 97.7FM, and online at www.xfm.co.uk.
CMU and The Remix have been best friends since 2004, with Team CMU tapping into Eddy's knowledge and passion for the best boots, break and remixes across our media and, in particular, in The Remix Update, the free weekly e-bulletin from CMU that accompanies the radio show. If any friends want to receive this update tell them to email subscribe@remixupdate.co.uk.
ONLINE REMIXING COMMUNITIES
Boombox: news, tracks, forum at www.bmbx.org
Get Your Bootleg On: forum at www.gybo5.com
United Remixers Guild: downloads at www.theunitedremixersguild.com
SAMPLES
BAP Free Sounds: French site supplying erm, free sounds at: www.bap.free.fr
Beta Monkey: Free samples at www.betamonkeymusic.com
Loopasonic: Samples galore at www.loopasonic.com
Replay Heaven: Re-records samples to sound like the originals but avoid clearing problems
www.replayheaven.com
The Free Sound Project: Free sounds available for non commercial use under creative common licences freesound.iua.upf.edu
SOFTWARE
Acid: If you want to get into remixing you can do worse than download Acid. You can download the free version at mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/download/freestuff.asp
GarageBand: Mac users could also check out GarageBand. More info at www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/
Propellerhead Software: These guys produce a range of packages for making music. Check them out at www.propellerheads.se
Ableton Live: A favourite of many professionals, Ableton Live is available in a stripped down entry level version. More info at www.ableton.com
Add your sites to this list - email details to andy@unlimitedmedia.co.uk