It’s time, again, for me to post a number of miscellaneous tunes that have slipped through the pelski net over the last month or two. We’ve got growling electro, big house beats, some thumping brea
kbeat, one bassline remix, a couple of minimal flavours and even a small slice of reggae-infused pop, just in time for the summer. Pelski highly recommends them all:
The band currently holding the most outlandish name is London’s Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. Their tunes are as quirky as their name. I posted their Foreign Beggers remix a while ago here and now they’re back with an upbeat, wobbly one – jumpy bass womps along to some breezy 80s-style synth work:
I was unsure as to whether this really was the Proxy remix because I thought it was another prank. To clear things up the fake blood prank was apparently pulled not by Disco Demons (though they did post the track), but pranksters from over at the Erol forum (and are currently commenting below!) – who convinced everyone on April Fools that a remix knocked up by themselves was a hot-off-the-press Fake Blood remix of Darude’s ‘Sandstrom’, which swiftly forced its way up the popular hypem charts. But this sounds like Proxy, in its slow humming elements, even if it is a slight departure – dark, bassy strumming growl behind looped vocal snippets. A slow brooding remix. Be sure to check out Proxy’s thumping remix of Shottieville too:
Frenchkiss Records sent over a little taster of Sean Bones’s album ‘Rings’. A little different from the usual peski fodder, it’s summery, uplifting Reggae-infused indie-pop. And very nice too:
One of my favourite tunes of the last few months was Renaissance Man’s Spray Can – all jittery, bouncy minimal house. Sharkslayer – first blogged here – replace some of the cleaner beats with electro fuzz and whirring, but the essence of the original’s – the bleepy hook – remains in tact. A slightly more maximal affair, but still great fun. Sharkslayer’s also just put out a simple edit of Nadastrom’s spluttery dub of Lenka:
The Yank briefly came to everyone’s attention last year with the superb ‘We Can’t Be Stop’d‘ – sampling The Beatles’ ‘Birthday’. It was suprisingly good dancefloor stuff, but his latest Beatles-fixated tune – another YCCMPelski exclusive – isn’t especially suited to dancefloors, but its big ol’ dusty kick-drum beats bang along with glorious vigour. All vintage charm:
N.B. Funky (this tune appeared in the May chart) provides some funky afrobeat flavours – it’s captivating minimal and from a producer someone who’s just at home producing hip-hop, r’n'b, drum’n'bass or garage as he is these stunning tropical beats:
As Jack Beats’ squelching sounds progressively descended closer to absurdity in their quest to provide even more obscene and dirty wobbles of bass each new production… they have pulled back from their often unrelenting onslaught of wonky noise – though I’ve always enjoyed those Jack Beats’ bangers – they’ve crafted a lovely, stripped back remix of Patrick Wolf – the consistently weirdest, and Ketamine addicted, musician around. Jack Beats’ best remix in an age, or possibly ever:
Some trendy whiny female, vocal stuff going on here. Catchy or enoying? Take your pick. But I’d say it’s good fun electro house:
Speech Debelle – The Key (Loose Cannons Remix)
Ernold Sane sent his remix of Major Lazer last month, it’s a great remi and a good taster of the huge Pon Di Floor – the exciting collaboration of Diplo and Switch before their album drops tomorrow on Downtown Records. Displaying some crazy reggae and dancehall sounds blended with everything from afrobeat to baile funk:
The always-impressive Trevor Loveys has moved away from the bombast of fidget house to this brilliant remix. I think I’m right in saying this is slightly different from the remix he did with In Flagrenti of the same tune. The chirpy percussive intro drops into a humming and twanging melange with plenty of character: 
Last but not least, we have the brand new and unreleased Fake Blood remix. It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the Fake Blood, and here he gives the fake blood treatment to that summery slice of indie pop from Mike Snow that’s been cuasing a stir. Fake Blood’s remix is free of his usual thick slabs of floor-shaking, contorted bass, replaced with bouyant and fuzzy reverb synths (left-click the link – it’s mediafire):
