Yes, boys and girls, bipeds, quadrupeds and dodecapeds!

The new installment of the Cosmix series has landed!

It has been gestating since… well, since I released the previous installment of the Cosmix series!

Get your space helmets on, cadets, because I pulled all the stops on this one: it doesn’t attempt to please anyone or anything but the most weirdly disco neuron hiding in your brain — hence the title, and if you don’t get it right away, just repeat the name of the planet out loud a few times :p

At just under two hours, it’s the shortest mix in the Cosmix series, so far.

Lots of psychedelic fun is included, I strongly suggest… Heck no! I strongly RECOMMEND, that you don’t listen to this while straight.

I sincerely hope you enjoy, and if you don’t, try again: it’ll grow on you!

As usual, you can stream it

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TRACKLISTING

1. Buzz In (Optimo Remix) – Boris
2. Double Fisted (Prins Thomas Disko Miks) – Scotty Coats & Wes the Mes
3. Neeve – Projections & Woolfy
4. Is Sorrow (Black Machine’s Lucifer Rising Dub) – Black Devil Disco Club
5. Sparkling Stars – Petar Dundov
6. Vuelo – Skatebard
7. The Simple Life – The Juan MacLean
8. Goin’ Underground (Extended version) – Partners in Crime
9. Don’t Sleep – Zepp001
10. They Prefer The Disco – The Bionics
11. Dancing In Outer Space (The Revenge Rework 2) – Atmosfear
12. The Deep End (Holy Ghost! Day School Dub Mix) – Curses!
13. Spaghetti Circus – Still Going
14. Love Don’t Dance Here Anymore – Tiga
15. Space People – S. Mallia
16. Red Heart (Vlad Nayward Edit) – Tele Music
17. exp3 (aka Two Sequencers Are Better Than One) – John Daly
18. Mancry (Justus Kohncke’s Epic Diskokraut Club Mix) – Freeland

Legendary 80′s band Handful of Snowdrops make a surprise comeback!

It’s true! It’s confirmed! To mark its 20th anniversary, Handful of Snowdrops have launched the expanded and remastered reissue of their legendary first album Land of the Damned, just over 16 years after their eloquent final release, Mort en Direct.

In addition to its superior sound quality, the album has been expanded with the track Gabrielle MMIX, a totally new version of their seminal smash hit, Gabrielle.

This reissue will be available in a deluxe package that will see the CD arrive to your door accompanied by a T-Shirt and 11″x17″ poster.

But furthermore, each CD copy — deluxe or regular — of this very limited reissue will allow collectors to download a compilation of 12 early demos titled Groundwork for Fundamentals Vol. 1, literally a sonic history of the band’s formative years, from 1984 to 1986.

“For years, I thought that Land of the Damned went practically unheard of, especially outside Canada and the U.S.

“And then, along came the Internet: I began getting tons of emails from people around the world — especially Mexico and South America — telling me how much they loved that record.

“Still, it took me many, many years to be able to accept such praise and to finally come to terms with the fact that a 20th anniversary re-edition would not be such a bad idea, after all.”

That’s how Jean-Pierre Mercier, founder and leader of the band, recalls the genesis of this project — which most fans had given up on.

Yet, the band’s MySpace player has garnered over 26 000 plays in just over a year, digits that have no doubt helped convinced Jean-Pierre that this project was well worthwhile!

Land of the Damned (Expanded & Remastered) will only available online from HOS’ website (handfulofsnowdrops.com) and on their MySpace profile (myspace.com/handfulofsnowdrops) but exceptionally and for a very limited time, it will be availble from these two retailers:

Platine
155, chemin Ste-Foy
Québec, QC, Canada
G1R 1T1
Tél.: 418.529.4222

and

Mecanica
Av. Insurgentes Sur # 277 – 2
Col. Roma, Mexico DF
Tel. 91499967
mecanica.com.mx

Click here for the complete press kit (French and English press release and album cover art)

Well, not really live…

It was hot as hell that Sunday and I was afraid my laptop might overheat from the requirements of running Torq AND recording the set, so I forgot about the idea of recording it live on the spot.

So, I re-recorded the set today in the cool of my basement studio, and here it is for your listening enjoyment.

It is kinda live because I recorded it in one take…

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TRACKLIST
1. Natural Lifespan – Cos/Mes
2. Dayglow – Sorcerer
3. Walk on Ice – Downtown Party Network
4. Leave your Earth Behind – The Soft Rock
5. Don’t Turn It Off feat. Qzen (Brennan Green Mix) – 40 Thieves
6. Awright? – Ray Mang
7. I Care – The Bionics
8. Re-Writable Smile (Crazy P Solar Disco Affair) – Tafubar
9. The Magnificent – Lindstrøm
10. Days Like These – Downtown Party Network
11. Italian Stallion – Todd Terje
12. Another Station (Todd Terje Mix) – Lindstrøm
13. Pay TV (Emperor Machine Mix) – Laurent Garnier
14. Hot Beef (No Ears Red Beard Rosbif Remix) – Worst Case Scenario
15. Code 7429 – Lullabies in the Dark
16. The Journey to Serra Da Estrela – The Phenomenal Handclap Band
17. Battlehymn For Children (Tensnake Remix) – The Faint
18. Galapagos – Julian Sanza
19. Mariacha – Nick Chacona
20. Light Bulb – Soft Rocks
21. Brighter Than 1000 Suns – Monsieur Seb & Sir Greg

First, thanks to my friend Steve for making me discover this.

“This” being all at once this version of Bring the Noise and the label it’s been released on.

This version of Public Enemy’s Bring the Noise is reinterpreted/remixed/mashed up by Mato.

The flipside of that release, the Beastie Boys’ Intergalactic ground through the same grinder, is just as good!

The label it’s been released on is French label Stix, seemingly quite elusive with barely any information on Discogs and apparently no website.

Plus they release everything they output on 7″ vinyl!

Although it came out in late May, I’ve only just discovered Damian Lazarus’ album Smoke the Monster Out yesterday.

I confess I did so mainly because I wanted to know a bit more about the man who was opening for Underworld, Wednesday night, beyond the fact he runs the excellent label Crosstown Rebels.

The whole album is absolutely delightful, and I strongly recommend it, but after one listen, I immediately singled out one track that won me over instantly.

I won’t say exactly why, but check out the track he cites at the -1:22 marker on the player’s timer!

Damian Lazarus – After Rave Delight

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