Wednesday Announce New Album Start The Start (Also: A Remix)

Throwback rockers Wednesday plan on releasing their first full-length album Start The Start on March 10. No songs from this LP have found there way online yet, but when they do, we’ll let you know. In related news, Wednesday’s song “The Party Is Over” recently got the remix treatment from mysterious artist Higu. The Osaka-based…

HNC Remixes The Brixton Academy: “So Shy (Dancing In The Blue Mosque RMX)”

First off…HNC recently remixed Tokyo group The Brixton Academy’s “So Shy,” transforming it from a starry-eyed new wave joint into a chopped up, vaguely Bollywood track. HNC builds her take on the track around a bell-driven beat, slicing up the original track’s vocals into a call-for-prayer tone (it sounds a lot like the start of…

√thumm Remixes Bruno Merz: “Golden Days”

Consider this part one of a two-part √thumm special, as I’ll have a review of the electro-dance trio’s debut album up before Christmas. Then, the blog will go on a brief holiday vacation and be back early next year. But first…a remix. The funny-named band tackle British folkie Bruno Merz’s “Golden Days.” Merz usually sticks…

Hoshina Anniversary Remixes 99 Letters

Tokyo electro-guy Hoshina Anniversary does his remix thing on a track from spazzy chiptuner 99 Letters. “Incratible (Hoshina Anniversary Remix)” scales back the usual madness found in chiptune, favoring instead to transform the song into an 8-bit-braised club track. Hoshina Anniversary stretches it out for more than five minutes, making subtle changes here and there…