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Reviving That Alleged Justice Remix

About five months ago, I posted this Justice Remix of the Arctic Monkeys’ “When I Sun Goes Down”. It somehow found its way into my inbox, a little bit after the major wave of D.A.N.C.E.H.Y.P.E. died down (and its still dying!). Now, from the get-go, the remix was pretty weak and vaguely resembled anything to spawn from the French duo, nonetheless I posted to remix to one of my random remix collection posts. Out of the blue, it became some kind of hype machine phenomenon — sparking tons of backlash. I failed to ever give a comment, but basically, my suspicions were solidified. And a little LOL, I was even Gutted by Check The Availability. Basically the track is mash-up, by whom, I don’t know, but these are the songs that make up this mini-blog phenom

The Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down
Urban Shakedown - Some Justice
Liquid - Sweet Harmony
Beastie Boys - Ch-Check It Out

And here it is…

Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down (Justice Remix) [YSI]… or not?

So maybe this will set the record straight? It just makes me sad seeing this remix pop up a few times in blogs and in forums causing unwanted amounts of confusion and anger.

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Entertainment, Fakes, Justice, Mashups

Arctic Monkeys To Release Third Album This Year

Arctic Monkeys fans have been waiting for news like this for quite a while. But the wait will come to an end soon enough. According to Daily Star, Arctic Monkeys are going to release their third album this year. That would make it album number three in three short years (not counting Alex Turner’s side project The Last Shadow Puppets, whose debut album drops April 21st). Fans are either gitty or pessimistic when it comes to learning of the third Arctic coming. Sophomore effort, Favorite Worst Nightmare was as good as, but not better than the ubiquitous debut Whatever People Say…, but is a third consecutive (dare I say) masterpiece asking a little too much?

This source seems to disagree:

“A lot of people were surprised to see Arctics at the Brits as it’s usually the kind of event they steer clear of. The reason they went is because they’ve been down in London working on new material and fancied a night off to relax. Alex is overflowing with song ideas and it’s all going so well they’re looking at releasing an album this year.”

So Mr. Frontman is “overflowing with song ideas”, to most this sounds sensational, but I just have to bring this up; this may be the crash and burn critics have been waiting for since Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?

1Arctic Monkeys - Old Yellow Bricks (Cryptonites Tease The Monkey Remix) ALT
2The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement ALT
3Arctic Monkeys - You Know I’m No Good (Amy Winehouse cover) ALT

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, News, The Last Shadow Puppets

Dead Links Suck, Dont They

Just to clear the air. I am totally against reuploading mp3s after the links expire and/or are deleted, but this passed week has been kind of crazy in terms of finding a new host. Thus, the links to some mp3s either never worked for more than a few hours or didn’t last the night. It’s really just a bandwidth issue. Pretty Much Amazing has simple overgrown YouSendIt or Google Pages. zShare seems to work, and SaveFile does too. I am also going to venture into the world of DivShare and MediaFire, but I am keen on keeping up with elbo.ws and hypem, and some services just don’t aggregate properly. With that said, I am going to post up the songs that went to mp3 heaven way to quickly.

Justice - DVNO (Justice Remix) MP3 | ALT
Justice ft. Mehdi Pinson - DVNO (LA Riots Bootleg Remix) MP3 | ALT
Justice ft. Uffie - The Party (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Remix) MP3 | ALT
Big Boi ft. Andre 3000 & Raekwon - Royal Flush MP3 | ALT
Outkast - The Art of Storytelling, Pt. 4 MP3 | ALT
The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution MP3 | ALT
The Breeders - Bang On MP3 | ALT
Battles - Dance MP3 | ALT
John Mayer - Kid A (Radiohead Cover) MP3 | ALT
Duffy - Ready For The Floor (Hot Chip cover) MP3 | ALT
Arctic Monkeys - Curtains Close/Rockafella Skank (Fatboy Slim cover) MP3 | ALT
Arcade Fire - Age Of Consent (New Order Cover) MP3 | ALT
Machinae Supremacy - Gimme More (Britney Spears Cover) MP3 | ALT
Amy Winehouse - Monkey Man (Toots and Maytal cover) MP3 | ALT
Franz Ferdinand - All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem cover) MP3 | ALT
Plain White T’s - Umbrella (Rihanna cover) MP3 | ALT

Tags: Amy Winehouse, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Battles, Breeders, Britney Spears, Chewy Chocolate Cookies, Duffy, Franz Ferdinand, John Mayer, Jusrice, LA Riots, OutKast, Plain White T's, Raconteurs

PMA MIX: Arctic Monkeys + Justice

I found this laying around during my regular and frequent savage hunts through the interwebs.

1. Arctic Monkeys - Take It Or Leave It (The Strokes) MP3 | ALT
2. Arctic Monkeys - You Know I’m No Good (Amy Winehouse) MP3 | ALT
3. Arctic Monkeys - Baby I’m Yours (Van McCoy) MP3 | ALT
4. Arctic Monkeys - Diamonds Are Forever (Shirley Bassey) MP3 | ALT
5. Arctic Monkeys - Put Your Dukes Up John (The Little Flames) MP3 | ALT
6. Arctic Monkeys - Love Machine (Girls Aloud) MP3 | ALT
7. Arctic Monkeys - Bad Woman (Patrick Sickafus) MP3 | ALT

There have been some crazy good Justice remixes out there lately. Here are my favorites.

Justice - DVNO (Justice Remix)
Justice ft. Mehdi Pinson - DVNO (LA Riots Bootleg Remix)
Justice ft. Uffie - The Party (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Remix)

Tags: Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, Chewy Chocolate Cookies, Girls Aloud, Justice, LA Riots, PMA MIX, The Strokes

The Lost Cover Post

A beautiful pop art photo I found…Looks like I’ve neglected my cover-fans a lot more than I thought I did. Its true, I missed Cover Tuesdays twice now. And I’ve received the email backlash to back it up. So here is a little sorry present I whipped up just now. I am almost positive that I’ve posted these before, but they’re some of my favorites, and looking though my gmail inbox, they are some of you’re favorites too.

I am especially fond of John Mayer’s take on Radiohead’s Kid A. Machinae Supremacy retired “Gimme More” from its previous pole dancing infamy and turned it into something worthy of Reznor’s envy.

John Mayer - Kid A (Radiohead Cover)
Duffy - Ready For The Floor (Hot Chip cover)
Arctic Monkeys - Curtains Close/Rockafella Skank (Fatboy Slim cover)
Arcade Fire - Age Of Consent (New Order Cover)
Machinae Supremacy - Gimme More (Britney Spears Cover)
Amy Winehouse - Monkey Man (Toots and Maytal cover)
The Hold Steady - Running Against the Wind (Bob Seger Cover)
Franz Ferdinand - All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem cover)
Plain White T’s - Umbrella (Rihanna cover)

Tags: Amy Winehouse, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Britney Speas, Duffy, Entertainment, Franz Ferdinand, Hot Chip, John Mayer, LCD Soundsystem, Plain White T's, Radiohead, Rihanna, The Hold Steady

Under The Covers

Photo Credit: adorkable

What an exquisite feeling it is to be wrapped around safely in your bed sheets. Alone or with a significant other, its always bound to be a great experience. Truly brilliant song covers parallel their sonic linen brothers in the way they seem to soothe you. There’s certain magic in a cover, its card to place. Is it listening to your favorite tunes through someone else’s eyes? Or is it the artist covering the song that intrigues us? I feel covers always brings me closer to both artist, moreso the one singing. Its almost like we now have something in common, we both like the song being covered. Covers may help you relate to an artist more than their own music.

Our favorite Sheffield indie-rockers, Arctic Monkeys show the soft side we took pleasure in listening to on songs like “Mardy Bum” and “505″ on the Barbra Lewis cover and Leave Before The Lights Come On B-Side “Baby, I’m Yours”. Its quite a charming side from the lads. I’ve always wondered whether they were romantics or not. This song is THE perfect serenade song of all-time. Hear that guys?

MP3 | Arctic Monkeys - Baby, I’m Yours (Barbra Lewis Cover)

Doing some deep digging over at the GvB archives proved to be rewarding. This cover of Björk’s beloved “Hyperballad”, beautifully sung by Karen O, fully slipped out of my mind. I’m extremely happy I found this gem again. Karen O is simple the most fantastic indie queen of all time, her covering another musical queen is just pure, filthy fun (Yes, pure filth).

MP3 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hyperballad (Björk Cover) [Acoustic]

I think everyone will agree that Secret Heart is a lovely song, and I’m sure you’re all with me when I say Feist is an incredible soloist. Put those and together and you get…

MP3 | Feist - Secret Heart (Sexsmith Cover)

The Arcade Fire is really the best band to come along since the Talking Heads stopped making sense. So, naturaly, Arcade Fire’s take on the Talking Heads’ classic tune “Naive Melody” is divine!

MP3 | Arcade Fire - Naïve Melody (Talking Heads Cover)

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Bjork, Feist, Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Arctic Monkeys B-Sides and Rarities Project

The goal of this series of posts is fairly simple, I am going to write a post about all of the Arctic Monkeys B-Sides, Non-Album Tracks, and other rarities. I have no clue how long this will take, or even if I will finish it, but it should be a fun ride. Why the Arctic Monkeys? Well, I have been a huge fan of the Arctics since, well, they were forced into my life back in 2004, and I am quite familiar with their music, albums and other mediums.

“When The Sun Goes Down” (aka Scummy Man) gets credit as one of the Arctic’s signature songs. Of course, after “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” got annoying, non-fans jump on “Scummy Man” as if on autopilot. With good reason too, Scummy is the only true three-dimensional song on Whatever… and illustrates prolific storytelling swamped between extraordinary meat’n'potatoes guitars.

While a standout single, “7″, a b-side on the When The Sun Goes Down EP, still stands as one of the Arctic Monkeys’ best non-album tracks to date. The track has Alex Turner’s signature teen awkward expertise written all over it, even down to the la la la’s. Alex spits witty I want you now’s over raw jumpy guitars. This song is pretty damn near perfect for any twentysomething year old (or 19 year old in Turner’s case) feeling that initial attraction clumsiness: “Well I’m looking and you kept staring/ Your thoughts bearing up with mine/ And when you’re so pretty and I’m so shy/ You probably didn’t give me the eye but I’m sure you did.”

MP3 | Arctic Monkeys - 7 (from ‘When The Sun Goes Down’ EP )

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Arctic Monkeys B-Sides and Rarities Project, B-Sides

Arctic Monkeys Belittled By Leona Lewis

“X Factor” winner Leona Lewis might just smash the Arctic Monkey’s record for fastest selling debut album. Lewis’ album “Spirit” moved 130,000 units by Monday night, weekend projected sales exceed 400,000. That would squish the Arctic Monkey’s 363,735 units sold of “Whatever They Say I Am, Its What I’m Not” during its first week.

It seems Leona Lewis is the next big thing. Big is an understatement really. REALLY, REALLY. On Sunday she snatched the crown for the best-selling single of the year, as “Bleeding Love” chalked up total sales of 490,000.

Last month the track smashed the 2007 record for the most singles sold in a first week of release, with sales of 218,000.

Her debut single, “A Moment Like This”, broke records when it was downloaded 50,000 times in the first half hour on release last December and sold 600,000 copies in its first week.

MP3 | Arctic Monkeys - You Probably Couldn’t See For The Lights, But You Were Looking Straight At Me

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Entertainment, Leona Lewis

Two Mixes to Get You Through The Last Few Hours

TGIF! Happy our is every hour, am I right? Probably not, I am sure most of you are stuck at work, or school. Me too. As everyone knows, the quick fix to surviving a Friday at work or at school is, of course, an truly outstanding, re-imagined song(s). I refrain from the term remix because the following tracks have pushed beyond the limits of an ordinary remix and transcended into a level of re-imagination. I didn’t really think re-imagination was possible, but if Mark Ronson can do it…

Here are your two you can make it till fucking 6pm! treats:

• First off is this brilliant Arctic Monkeys and Killers mash up entitled “Scumbody Told Me”, this song skillfully meshes the twangy guitar riffs the Arctics drenched on the crowd favorite “When The Sun Goes Down”, and the Killers’ debut single that lead them to the love/hate infamy they now possess.
  MP3 | Arctic Monkeys vs The Killers - Scumbody Told Me
• Wow, can you believe someone has remixed Justice’s “D.A.N.C.E.”?! Groudbreaking! It amazes me that no one has ever tried to do this before, oh wait… but when P4K dished that Benny Blanco, Mos Def, and Spank Rock were on the track, I was on board. A Hip-Hop remix intrigued me, after one listen, I was hooked. One of the best D.A.N.C.E remixes to date, rivals Stuart Prices mix… yes I said it!
  MP3 | Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Benny Blanco Remix Feat. Mos Def and Spank Rock)

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Benny Blanco, Entertainment, Justice, Mash Up, Mos Def, Remix, Spank Rock, The Killers

Its The Friggin Weekend v2

I couldn’t let you guys continue with your Friday night with out these last few remixes. Have a great weekend!

MP3 | Diplo ft. Daft Punk - Work Is Never Over [audio=http://buzzhypemedia.com/mp3/07_Diplo_feat_Daft_Punk_-_Work_Is_Never_Over.mp3]
MP3 | Madonna - Hung Up (Diplo Remix) [audio=http://buzzhypemedia.com/mp3/Madonna-Hung_Up_(Diplo_Remix).mp3]
MP3 | Britney Spears - Me Against The Music (Justice Remix) [audio=http://buzzhypemedia.com/mp3/12._Me_Against_The_Music_Justice_Remix_.mp3]
MP3 | Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down (Justice Remix) [audio=http://buzzhypemedia.com/mp3/When%20The%20Sun%20Goes%20Down%20(Justice%20Remix).mp3]
MP3 | N.E.R.D. - She Wants To Move (Justice Remix) [audio=http://buzzhypemedia.com/mp3/She%20Wants%20To%20Move%20(Justice%20Remix).mp3]

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Britney Spears, Daft Punk, Diplo, Justice, Madonna, N.E.R.D, Remix