LEGAL IN A LAND ROVER

If when I die my brain has reshaped itself, sporting a cortexual pattern resembling the golden mean or the architecture of the city of Tokyo, it'll have been because of Ableton. Though I miss the touch of wax under my hand, there's something about mixing on Live that renders me in a stitch. This program has, in the words of Casey Jones, completely upped the ante. I'm a perfectionist like what so it will be some time before my forest-techno/Breakfast Club house anthems reach the masses, but Surrender has something a brewin, something that involves talking in the third person and everything magical about John Hughes movies.

In the meantime, we got some lovely mail today, first from our friends at top-class beat 'em up electro-house label Rekids, who continue to bring sinister bass from the likes of Radio Slave, Luke Solomon, and the mysterious Mr G. This wash-cycle bumper bass number is the flipside to Rekids 013, due out 5/28. I'm really loving the scrubbing synth sounds that saturates this track to its shadowy core. A deceptively minimal affair, the track peaks into something hellish at 5 minutes and then backs off in a sly and subtle manner, like being teased by a panther who decides ultimately to maul rather than eat you.

Mr G - U Askin (Marcel Dettman Remix) @128kbps [alt link]

Miscalate and Data Sapiens have been on hyperspeed repeat for me all month and this new Mr G track seems like it will join them in rotation. Do yourself and Rekids a favor and head over to their Beatport page and give them some of your damn money. You can get top-notch 320kbps versions of all the quality Rekids releases, new and old, for 2 bucks a pop, and you're supporting the continued purveyance of creative and fresh electronic music worldwide. Support the artists! Support the labels! Buy vinyl. Buy digital. Either way, cough up some change, don't ever let the music die.


Speaking of support, we've got nothing but it for our pal Cousin Cole, who- hot off the heels of his hook-happy collection of edits and remixes, the FF2 12" (buy it!)- has sent us this serenely bumpty-bump remix of one of the better tracks off Charlotte Gainsbourg's widely hyped 5:55 album from last year. The remix is a wonderful excercise in whispers and lilting licks, an edit that maintains the synths and piano crescendos of the original (courtesy of Air) but bumps that fatty bassline just enough to take this track from the armchair to the dancefloor. Cole, I've been enjoying your subtler edits a lot, ever since the J&MC remix. It took a couple listens, but this track really goes. To the movement!

Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Operation (Cousin Cole Remix) [alt link]