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Carnage's Current Listening Chart

1) The Knife – We Share Our Mother’s Health (Trentemoller Remix) // Brille
It was always going to be hard for Troy Pierce and Williams to remix a song as perfect as ‘Silent Shout’, the eponymous lead off single from The Knife’s latest LP, both producing very functional but uninspiring offerings to cater for their respective audiences. This time, Anders Trentemoller (pictured hiding behind his keyboard) steps up to the plate to transform one of the album’s highlights into a techno-pop rollercoaster, with all the trademark peaks and troughs that we’ve come to expect from his productions. After a few decidedly average solo releases that were never going to live up to the heady heights of his ‘Physical Fraction’ and ‘Polar Shift’ 12"s, I must admit that I thought that he was going downhill, but here he returns to show us all how to whip any self respecting dancefloor into a total frenzy. Last I heard of the man, he was working had on his first full length release which is apparently going to be more of a vocal affair, and after hearing this and his fantastic remix of Royksopp’s ‘What Else Is There?’ (just why was everyone going crazy for that Thin White Duke mix when they had that on the flip?), I can only hope that it lives up to the promise that he’s shown when given Karin Dreijer-Andersson's voice to work with.

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The Knife – We Share Our Mother’s Health (Trentemoller Remix) // Brille

2) Akabu – Phuture Bound (Ame Remix) // Z
3) Henrik Schwarz/Ame/Dixon ft Derrick L Carter – Where It’s At (Version 1) // Sonar Kollektiv
It seems that Ame can do no wrong following the crossover success of ‘Rej’, as both of these tracks effortlessly prove; the former being a brooding deep techno masterpiece, and the latter sounding as good as the collaboration suggests it should be. Version 1’s the one to go for, but you can get hold of the unreleased second version for free on Sonar Kollektiv’s 'Inner City Visions' website. Go fetch!

4) Pinch – Qawwali (Original & VIP Versions) // Planet Mu
If you haven’t bought this record yet, then what are you hanging around for? Tectonic owner Rob Ellis (pictured above) strikes gold again with a blissfully deep original and dubbed up VIP version. It’s like Kraftwerk, underwater, with an accordion. Seriously! Excellent stuff from Bristol's boy wonder.

5) Royksopp – Beautiful Day Without You (Wighnomy and Robag Wruhme’s Spekkfakkel Remikks) // Wall of Sound
Robag and the Wighnomys do it again in the best of what’s otherwise a poor remix package on the next Royksopp single. Their usual skeletal structure is accompanied by heavenly swelling synths, and a bass drop to keep you going in the early hours. Pure after party gold, I tell ya!

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Royksopp – Beautiful Day Without You (Wighnomy and Robag Wruhme’s Spekkfakkel Remikks) // Wall of Sound

6) Young Dog Alien – Electric Eel // White
I almost couldn’t believe my ears when I first heard this Greg Wilson edit during one of my occasional days working at Replay. Beginning with a stretched out dub of ‘Turn The Page’, probably my favourite Streets track, it builds to a discofied crescendo before slipping into a slowed down, almost hip-hoppish version of the Prodigy’s ‘Out Of Space’. On paper, it sounds like one of the worst novelty records ever committed to wax, but Wilson pulls it off yet again in the party starting way that you expect him to. To paraphrase Mike Skinner, "Let’s put on our Classics and have a little dance shall we?"

7) Ellen Allien & Apparat – Orchestra Of Bubbles LP // Bpitch Control
I’m not even going to begin to write about this, as Big Phil’s done it already over at Pitchfork. Go read his review, salivate, then leg it to your local record shop and hand over some hard cash. If you still don’t believe us, then I have no doubt that ‘Jet’ will make your mind up for you.

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Ellen Allien & Apparat – Jet // Bpitch Control

8) Yes Boss – Get Dropped Quick // Dance To The Radio
I first stumbled upon Yes Boss supporting indie punk-funk upstarts The Sunshine Underground. Instead of being confronted by some crappy no mark indie outfit, up on stage were two guys from Leeds, one flat cap wearing guy on laptop and synths, and the other tracksuited up spouting rhymes over the top of what can only be described as a grindie backing. Their production ethic was firmly rooted in the world of dubstep and grime, but was combined the cheapness of electro pop and the result was quite a strange and unique performance. Top that all off with their audacity to berate the indie audience while simultaneously winning them over, and you had what was probably the most entertaining opening act I’ve seen in a while. 'Get Dropped Quick' came out on 7" a week or so ago, and features two versions of the track; one featuring their usual dubwise sound, and the second (on side C of all things) with added bass and guitars in what I’m guessing is an attempt at a parody on the identikit indie bands of today.

Here’s a few lyrical nuggets for ya:
"No I haven’t heard your band / You look just like Franz Ferdinand / Been there, done that, got the shirt / The constant rejections gotta hurt."
"Brand new car on your 17th birthday / still you’re desperate to be punk rock / think it’s all about chains and mohicans / I tell you child, it’s really not."
"Got more punk in my little finger / Even if I was wearing a tux and / I ain’t no protest singer / but I gotta protest - what I’m hearing sucks."
"When I look at all these indie kids there’s something bothering me / Cos they dress just like their uncles did in 1973."

For your downloading pleasure, here’s a track that features on the recent Dance To The Radio sampler. Apologies for the wma, but maybe that means that you’ll buy the proper one over at Itunes. Please do, or they’ll have no money to buy their skunk! Alternatively, head over to their myspace to check out more of their stuff.

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Yes Boss ft.Witty & Nastee Boi – Meet The Boss // Dance To The Radio

9) Kate Bush – King Of The Mountain (Radio Slave Edit) // White
Matt Edwards strikes gold with the first ever remix of Kate Bush. Poor old Kate doesn’t like anyone ‘spoiling’ her work, which is a crying shame as this subtle take on one of her crowning glories, ‘King Of The Mountain’ from her ‘Hounds Of Love’ LP shows. Cheers to Best Foot Forward for the tuneage. Can Matty E do any wrong at the moment with his Quiet Village Project and Radio Slave output being so right on the money? Check his remix of Peace Division's 'Blacklight Sleaze' for an example of what Ivan Smagghe should really be doing at the moment.

10) The Flying Squad – Trip 2 // White
So Tim Sweeney finally gets his arse in gear and releases one of his edits, albeit on white only at the moment. As Softy says, it’s full of tribal drumming with sprinklings of spacey synth lines and handclaps galore and will be sure to mess with people’s minds when it gets played out. The Sweenster’s going to be doing the next DJ Kicks mix which I’m looking forward to greatly, but in the meantime you should all go out and buy debut mix album for Rvng cos it’s fucking great. Any mix that encompasses Manuel Gottsching, Can, Throbbing Gristle, Aphex Twin, Radiohead, Cybotron, Kraftwerk, LFO, Fingers Inc, Psychonauts, Bauhaus, Was (Not Was), Grace Jones, Yoko Ono, Mu, Zongamin, Carl Craig, and Cat Power gets a thumbs up from me. By the way, if anyone could pop up a Megaupload of Tim Sweeney’s Our Disco set it’d be much appreciated, as I’ve been having a lot of trouble downloading it from their site.