Erol Alkan and Still Going Resident Advisor Mixes
- story Matthew Schnipper
- photo Leonie Purchas (F58)
In our minds, Resident Advisor is the dude who still goes to the rave but poopoos the glowsticks and low quality of today’s E. He was there in 1987 when Daft Punk played in the Wisconsin woods without masks to fruit bats and three Scandinavian tourists; he was there when Jeff Mills was a baby and first heard the ringing of church bells and hit his little baby hand against the lid for his peach baby food and in his tiny eyes he heard the future of all music; and he was there when Robert Moog, Nigel Rogers and David Byrne ate acid while listening to Silver Apples and did long division to figure out the highest BPM your body can handle before going into ecstatic overdrive. So it is pleasing to see the OG techno heads tread on FADER territory and feature two artists we’ve written about with love in their most recent podcasts, Erol Alkan and Still Going. Both are peppy mixes from the disco-obsessed musicians. In an internet mix, there’s no pressure to bring a sustained dance, and while they’re certainly not shying away from anything 4/4, there is space in both mixes to breathe. And, for Erol Alkan at least, space to feel kind of like you watched a lot of horror movies with girls in bikinis lately. He’s really riding that seedy/seductive line with the Miami bass/dramatic synths tracks.
Download: Erol Alkan Resident Advisor Mix
Download: Still Going Resident Advisor Mix
Karen O is Like Rad, Man
- story THE FADER
From last night on Late Night (video above)…
Dave: That’s good. I like that. Nice going. Boy, that’s just about right.
Paul: Karen O is like rad, man. Karen O is like rad, man. Karen O is like rad, man.
KAREN O IS LIKE RAD MAN RAD MAN RAD MAN RAD MAN. Dude, this is properly worded. Paul Schaffer: always on the ball. You know who else is on the ball? Erol Alkan. We know everyone is already on top of Animal Collective’s trippy remix of “Zero” and we’ll put it up below for good measure, but Erol melted “Zero” into like a really really hot chocolate sauce and is pouring it all over the mushy lump of ice cream that is our brains.
Stream: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Zero (Erol Alkan Rework)”
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posted on Apr 15, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Animal Collective, David Letterman, electronic/dance, Erol Alkan, Late Night, rock, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Audio: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Zero (Erol Alkan Remix)” [Snippet]
- story THE FADER
We don’t normally post snippets of remixes, but Alkan’s our boy and Karen O is our girl and this particular snippet of their musical coupling has us pretty zooted at the moment. The full track will be available for download on April 13th, but in the meantime listen to the minute of madness at the social networking links below. Or, if you’re in Paris this Friday, go see if he plays it during his FIVE HOUR SET at the Paris Social Club. Seriously, we can’t even sleep for five hours straight, that is ridiculous.
Stream: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Zero (Erol Alkan Remix)” [Snippet] on MySpace or Facebook
Video: Dance Area f. Austin Boston, “AA 24/7″ + Diplo Remix
- story THE FADER
In the alternate world where we post every great thing we see the minute we see it, this video went up several weeks ago. In this world where we post only our most favoritest stuff whenever it makes sense, it’s going up today because you can now buy the 12″ on Erol Alkan’s Phantasy label. We have watched this video about a thousand times and it never gets old — credit that to L-Vis 1990, Austin Boston’s chubby cheeks and our dolphin fixation. On the vinyl you get remixes by Skull Juice and Starkey while Beatport and iTunes have another two by Noob and the serious Diplo take below. Play any version at your next party and people will think you are the archangel of cool people.
Dance Area f. Austin Boston, “AA 24/7 (Diplo Remix)”
YouTubes Of People Enjoying Music From The New Issue Of The FADER
- story THE FADER
Last week, Erol Alkan, who is the subject of a big feature in The FADER #58, sent us the above embedded video of a kid adding an acoustic guitar part to “Veronica’s Veil” by Fan Death, who are in the Gen F section of #58. (While, you’re at it, check out tygerbomb1992 playing guitar to Glass Candy and MGMT as well.) Then this morning No Age, who are on the back cover of #58, posted a video of a girl in bright green pants dancing to their song “Cappo” at seven in the morning. But what’s funny is that we went to a No Age show last night, and thirty people were doing this exact same dance. Maybe this is the next Crank That Soulja Boy phenomenon.
Audio: Mystery Jets, “Flakes”
- story THE FADER
Mystery Jets’ “Flakes” is probably about snowflakes, at least sort of. It’s kinda sappy but it works because, dudes, like it or not, it’s the holidays so we may as well all get into it and listen to this song on headphones while we twirl around in Central Park like our lives are a romantic comedy. Maybe we’ll ice skate on a frozen lake and have a really fun snowball fight and sing this song as a Christmas carol, or alternately be all Grinchy about the holidays and then have it warm our hearts. The possibilities are totally endless, but for those of you who are not inclined to enjoy at least some of winter, you should still listen because Erol Alkan produced it.
