Stuff that never got released pt.6 "Fairy Tales"

Here is a remix i did for a group called Hypernova. The remix never made it out due to a lack of chorus/vocals...but I was pretty happy with the way this wierd little thing ended up. You can grab it here or at Self Titled Magazine where they have posted this remix along with a new mix I did for their "needle exchange" series. The mix has alot of punky disco stuff, edits, and some new experimantal sounds I've been working on. Hope it's worth your time.

Fairy Tales(chris devlin remix) - Hypernova

Needle Exchange mix (assited by Matt Walter)

Metro Area x Karen Young - Hot For Miura (prince klassen blend)

We haven't done a "Stuff That Never Got Released" post in some time now, so I thought this would be fitting. I made this blend a couple of years ago on the fly and then finally took some time to actually put them together. I am sure we are all familiar with Miura from Metro Area, and some might be familiar with the vocals from a Lil Louis track that sampled the same jawns. Anyway, here you go.

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Metro Area x Karen Young - Hot For Miura (prince klassen blend)

Mix Tape Edits Part 1

Some people have been asking for blends from a few of the mixes we've done in the past. I'm not big into making blends or mash-ups but ....Heeeeere we go :



From : We Make It Good Volume 2
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Chaz Jankel/Le Le - 300,000,000 Synths for Brekfast

stuff that never got released part 5: TOTAL RECALL GIRLZ

Sorry that last post was a total waste of space here's a good one.

The Virgins. A band who, you'd hope, would look like this:

but sadly, they look like this:

and they sound kind of like the strokes. except on dope. or like, the strokes crossed with the modern lovers? anyway I did 2 mixes for them on spec. The first had, according to an Atlantic A&R who will remain unnamed, too many changes, or different parts for a dance song:

"the Atlantic team love the direction you took it
in, but as a remix... they feel that there are to many "feelings" aka
"moods" to keep the average dance floor patron interested and remembering
the song, they would like for you to remove some of the diversity (imagine
that) and keep it a straight dance floor song"

A fair piece of criticism. So I redid it, still on spec, and turned in this version which I thought was pretty good:

TOTALRECALGIRLZ_XXXCHANGE_1.mp3




after I turned this in I was pretty sure it was a wrap but then they came back again this time saying "now it's too dancey." I was beginning to feel like a rat in a maze and more than a little sick of the song, not to mention I had a sneaking suspicion that maybe they were just fucking with me for the fun of it. so I said "ok give me half the money we agreed on up front and I'll do another mix" (not really intending to do shit except take the money). and that's where we left it.

photos courtesy of hangout.altsounds.com and jihadivirginaction.org

some recent stuffS...

This is a MOdular Podcast I did while in OZ....Here it is, not too much good mixing, as I was playing off internal (no Turntables) and drinking beers with Radge from Modular...





Click the image above to check the write up and links to other Modcasts.

OR get the divshare HERE....( tracklist is in lyrics for your iphones and pods, just tap the screen)

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Devlin - Plane Ride
Hecules and Love Affair - Blind (Devlin Remix.edit)
Rodriguez - Sugar Man (Devlin re.edit)
Fully Fitted - Shake It
Willie Colón - Che Che Colo ( Antibalas Remix)
Celina y Reutilio - San Lazaro
..................................Worst echo and mix....................................
Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules theme
Tomorrow - My White Bycicle
The Electric Frogs - Tribute to Brian Jones
Tony Tete Harbor and the Star Heaters of Nigeria - TeTe Muo bu Muo
The Daktaris- Eltsuhg Ibal Lasiti
Frankie Valle & The Four Seasons - The Night (Leam or Rosebud edit)
Duo Inter - Beggin
The Pioneers - Longshot kick De Bucket
Clyde Alexander & Sanction - Got To Get Your Love (Special Kenny Dope Edit)
SantoGold - L.E.S Artistes (XXX Change remix)
Tim&Eric - Petite feet (Devlin/Ghostdad Remix feat. Sylvia Gordon)
Novos Tropical - America Tropical (Devlin Quick.edit)
Telex / Carl Craig - designer Music (Moscow Disko edit?)
Africa Bambatta - Looking for the Perfect Beat
Iron Maiden- Run To the hills

IN Other News:


The Things That Exist

This is a collaboration with Something in The Universe...I use the term collaboration loosley, as It really went Something like this:  Summary of Email chain with old friend, Amir Fallah :
A: "hey do you have some wierd music you've made that you would like to contribute for this project my friends are working on"

Me: " yes, I do, something 'far out '? "  
A: "exactly"
 so....I made sure Animal Collective was cool with the appropriation and then gave Amir the first tune you hear on the podcast and SITU supplied the video...Click for more info.

stuff that never got released pt.4 (sort of)

Lots of people have been asking for this one so I figured i'd put it up. This actually came out in the video game "skate" but never saw an mp3 release on the soundtrack or otherwise so for those that asked here ya go:





Rick Ross Hustlin' (xxxchange remix)

stuff that never got released pt.3 "LFWWS"

well the Kudu remix album came out and we're not on it! so what the heck. LFWWS is short for "Let's Finish What We Started." Kudu stands for " K.ids U.nder D.emonic U.sage." Me and Chris Devlin did this remix one year ago in 2.0.0.7.

LFWWS (xxxchange& Devlin mix)

LFWWS (xxxchange & Devlin instrumental mix)

stuff that never got released pt.2 "Nausea"

another good one from the fall of '06 that never happened. No cool story behind this one. We toured with beck, briefly, he commissioned the remix around the same time. good dude. mad famous and shit. awesome band. great show. no idea why they didn't use the mix.

Nausea (xxxchange remix)

Nausea (xxxchange remix) instrumental

stuff that never got released pt.1 "smile" LINK FIXED

This is the first post in what will hopefully turn into a series (if we don't get sued. lol.) of remixes and other stuff that was commissioned but never released for whatever reason. Out in palm springs last weekend me, Ron, Emily and some of our new friends were hanging out by the pool, this song came on my itunes, and we were like,"wow this didn't turn out so bad after all!" so we thought we'd share it with y'all since now it's a few years later and like pase says "she's pretty much irrelevant at this point."

This was a mix that I got asked to do in the fall of '06 by Lily Allen's people for her big song at the time"Smile." The song overall had some pretty good lyrics etc. but I wasn't totally sure about the music or what I could really contribute to it, 95 bpm not being one of my strongest areas. So I asked Darko to come over to help me brainstorm a quick idea up, and we ended up knocking the whole remix out in about 6 hours.

After flipping through my 90-100 bpm'd serato crate for a few minutes, we decided to do a little interpolation of the first few bars of "I'm your puppet," especially the bells part which worked well with her melody line. We replayed all the parts, added some breathy vocals of our own, for extra flair, wrote some new changes for the chorus, and turned it in. Initially I had high hopes, we got paid, the label loved it, BUT, apparently Lily hated it, so no biggie, I figured it would be shit-canned for good. About a month later we heard Mark Ronson's, or rather, Wale's remix, of "Smile" which sounded an awful lot like "I'm your puppet" too! haha looks like great minds think alike! (or at least do remixes by beat matching the two songs in serato and then replaying the samples!)lol. well anyway, without further ado here's our version:

Smile (XXXchange & Darko version)- Lily Allen

p.s. check out my old man in the pic with this "have a nice day" gravestone he carved.