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Saturday, July 23, 2005

Bloc Party Plan Remix Album
On September 13, Bloc Party will release a remixed and reinterpreted version of their debut album Silent Alarm. The album will feature the work of Ladytron, Whitey, Pretty Girls Makes Graves, Phones, Four Tet and others.

"We'd commissioned a bunch of remixes for B sides and singles and thought it'd be nice to collect them all together," Bloc Party drummer Matt Tong told Rolling Stone. "Asking people to do a bunch of remixes can seem like a vanity project, but we were intrigued to see what other people could come up with."

Check out the Bloc Party site for a full track list and background information on each remix. Paid members of the Bloc Party Fan club can preview the album now.

We asked Bloc Party about the remixes when we interviewed them in March:
"We got in touch with lots of different people and asked for remixes. We got them all back and some were better than others. Some of them were real disappointing, but some were interesting. You have no idea how someone is going to change a song. It's interesting to hear someone reinterpret a song.

What I can't stand is when people change just one thing about it. It seems really lazy. I hate that. Anything that implies someone has actually engaged with the song is really exciting. The M83 remix of "Pioneers" is really lush and ambient. Overall we received about 10, but many of them weren't that good."
- Download "So Here We Are (Four Tet Remix)" (MP3)
- Download "Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)" (MP3)
- Read our full interview with Bloc Party.
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Not that it takes much, but the trailer for the upcoming Arthur Russell documentary got me onto an AR kick the other day, and I headed for Dinosaur L's 24-24 Music. 24-24 is thought by some to be the gem of Russell's dancier material, and it'll hopefully be reissued soon. The Francois K remix of its masterstroke "#5 (Go Bang)" kicks off 2004's The World of Arthur Russell compilation, but I actually prefer the 24-24 original (MP3). When I first heard 24-24, though, the standout for me was far more fleeting. The two-minute "#7 (Recorded Live at the Kitchen, 1979)" (MP3) is a tantalizingly short slice of a session I hope is sitting in full in a vault somewhere. Russell's cello anchors a percussive horn-guitar groove that quickly recalls (or, I should say, previews) !!! and others. And, like much of Russell's music, I love it not only for its sound but also for the era of NYC it instantly evokes.

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