Brandon’s TBE Digest 28 – [9.22.2011] New Jams, Remixes, & Covers!

Artwork by Jacob Youngblood Ziegler

Brandon’s TBE Digest is a place where I gather up all the recent jams that are worth a listen (or 10) but don’t necessarily need their own post. Here you will find new tracks by known bands, remixes, covers, and even mashups if they are interesting. My favorites of the lot are in bold.

I have got to start writing less in these descriptions. You guys come here for the music. Get to it.

For more jams by any of these artists use the ‘tags’ links at the bottom of the post!

NEW RELEVENT JAMS

♫ Wavves – I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl / Our man Wavves does beach-punk right with this love letter to everyones favorite drummer turned frontman (sorry Travis Barker). Wavves’ Life Sux EP is out now.

♫ Future Islands – Balance / More Future Islands is always a good thing. Their new album On The Water comes out October 11th.

♫ Pearl Jam – Olé / Pearl Jam turn 20 this year and celebrated by giving this new jam that is filled with old PJ flavor.

REMIXES

♫ The Notorious B.I.G – Everyday Struggle (Frogs in Socks BiG Bootleg) / Holy soft footed amphibians, Batman! This is some next level bidness. I can’t stop listening to this.

Kamp! – Cairo (Moullinex Remix) / The best Polish band around returns to form on their new single “Cairo” and then Moullinex takes that form and injects 200 CCs of funky juice into it. Stuck. In. My. Head.

♫ Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra) (The 14th Minute Remix) / Joel has already posted the Slop Rock remix and Spirit Boy remix of this 2011 Gotye classic and now I have 2 more. I love the swirly synths in this 14th Minute version and the general bounciness added to the affair.

♫ Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know Feat. Kimbra (Hannes Fischer Remix) / Hannes Fischer takes things a bit mellower, injecting a delicately evolving shuffle to the mix. Which of the four remixes are you feeling or is the original just unbeatable (I would understand that)?

♫ The Weeknd – Rolling Stone (Hannes Fischer Remix) / Hannes Fischer continues slowing things down on this mix, rubbing the song into a smoothed out grind for late night drives.

♫ M83 – Midnight City (Big Black Delta Remix) / Back up! Horns coming through! I thought Alcala’s remix was a shoe in for top version but Big Black Delta give him a run for his money with this hyper-horned jet-chase version that eventually falls from the sky and into some dark places.

♫ When Saints Go Machine – Kelly (DISCOFORGIA Remix) / Underrated band of the year (just a few months late, Pitchfork) get a double does of knee-bending grind bounce on their top track.

♫ The Botaniks – Fond of Jane feat. Bernhoft (A Great Paulukka Remix ) / 2011’s reigning #1 remixers get their own top jam  a remix of its own and it’s a funky affair.

♫ Mark Ronson – Record Collection 2012 (feat. MNDR, Pharrell, Wiley & Wretch 32) (LOGO Remix) / It’s a whole new lineup on the Record Collection highlight and while I’m not used to these new verses over my jam it’s a fun mix up.

♫ Toro y Moi – New Beat (Star Slinger Dancehall Mix) / Star Slinger and Toro y Moi make for an ADHD beach party!

♫ The Good Natured – Wolves (Crystal Fighters Remix) / Does anyone actually read this far in? I don’t think so…

MASHUPS

♫ Norwegian Recycling – Don’t Stop Believin’ / Norwegian Recycling do their Frankenstein style mashup magic on this classic jam! How many samples can you spot? I’m hearing a lot of my favorite ladies.

COVERS

♫ Tokyo Police Club – All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem Cover) / Tokyo Police Club just finished a 10 day/10 cover project spanning a song each from the past 10 years and this is probably the one most people want their hands on. Other highlights include covers of Gwen Stefani & Moby, Harlem Shakes, Miley Cyrus, and Kelly Clarkson.

♫ Health – GOTH STAR (Pictureplane cover) / I never got into Pictureplane’s original but his recent jam “Post Physical” as well as this top-notch Health cover have me thinking I may have been an idiot.

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