Tapedeck have been categorically defined as New Rave by NME. God damn you, NME, God damn you. Don’t run away – they are not New Rave, yes: they have a rocky vibe to some of their electro and have remixed alot of indie tunes, including those of the Mystery Jets, Comanechi, Tilly and The Wall, Love Is All, Lost Penguin, Jack Penaté, Kate Nash and Goodbooks. But Phones, Dolby Anol, Boys Noize Switch, Crookers, and many many more have remixed indie and are not considered New Rave (sorry, er, I mean… ‘Nu-Rave’). Note to NME: please don’t suck Tapedeck into your whirlwind world of genre-fabricating and pigeonholing. Dammit NME…
Tapedeck are quite the contrary to this stereotype – they are a breath of fresh air and far from any one given genre. They fuse garage, cheese, grime, disco, indie and electro for some truly imaginative and innovative dance music. Tapedeck is made of up Alex and Seb who run the monthly 
interspersed by minute snippets of the original.
Lillica Libertine, just 20, has been receiving alot of attention from the blogs of late. His original material is of the electro-stomper vein. His tracks are filled with gnarly, growling distortion that sound like a dirty engine revved up and let loose. Much of it’s samey stuff; the kind of the thing the blogs are over-saturated with: but is no doubt great fun on the dancefloor; especially blasted out of sky-high stack speakers at obscene volumes. It’s really his remixes that have caught my attention (namely his booming reworkings of Late of The Pier and Dead Kids), and his remix of Tapedeck infuses the now commonplace distorted-synth sound and heavy bass, but actually melds nicely with the disco, and vocal cut-ups of the original:
Tapedeck – Destiny (Lillica Libertine Knight Club Remix) [pelski highly recommends]
Tapedeck – Destiny (STDJS Tapedick Remix)
( Dead Kids – Fear and Flouride (Lillica Libertine’s Tried and Tested Remix)
Late Of The Pier – Bathroom Gurgle (Lillica Libertine Remix) )
Tapedeck also caused a bit of a storm with their garage-y, 2-step makeover of Atlantis To Intezone. With so many Klaxons remixes to pick from, this certainly stands out in terms of originality and also works surprisingly well. This injection of garage isn’t just a gimmick, but makes for a genuinely adept remix. Interestingly, they’ve named the remix ‘Ayia Napa To Inerzone’ after
Klaxons – Atlantis To Interzone (‘Ayia Napa To Interzone’ Tapedeck Remix) [pelski highly recommends]
Another brilliant and wholly inventive remix from this
London duo is their bleepy, squelching, almost minimal remix of indie poppers GoodBooks (who have been previously remixed by the likes of Herve, The Teenagers, Kissy Sell Out, Crystal Castles and Lo-Fi-Fnk). They add a mesmarising and pleasantly downbeat touch to the GoodBooks’ melodic track:
GoodBooks – The Illness (Tapedeck’s the Sicckness Refix) [pelski highly recommends]
Next up is their remix of….er….Kate Nash. I know, I know…but put aside all hipster prejudices and just pretend the acapella is someone else’s and you might just enjoy it. I did.
Kate Nash – Caroline’s A Victim (Tapedeck Revised Remix)
