I normally hate posting mixes that i didnt make but here is a free one that Soulwax did. It makes me wish that i was in the country this NYE to see 'em play.
Anyway Tracklisting:
1. The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl (Soulwax Remix Edit)
2. Zombie Nation - Forza
3. Tame Impala - Half Full Glass Of Wine
4. Tiga - Mind Dimension 2 (Ghent Version)
5. Mr Oizo - Pourriture 7 (Soulwax Edit)
6. Esser - Headlock
7. In Flagranti - Business Acumen
8. Flairs - Truckers Delight
9. MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Remix)
10. Das Pop - Fool For Love
11. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Feurprobe (Rory Phillips Remix)
12. Mickey Moonlight - Interplanetary Melodies
13. Late Of The Pier - Random Firl
14. Ali Renault - Our World Is

I count at least four songs that the belges have tinkered or mastered. The surprise for me is seeing esser in there but who doesn't love the guy?

Grab it here

The Sound Of The Police!

Let me tell you about Britain's most influential band in recent times. No it isn't Radiohead or Arctic Monkey's or even Alexandra from X-Factor. It is Simian.
Never has a little known band been so instrumental in shaping the landscape that we know live in.
Simon William Lord, James Ellis Ford, Alex MacNaghten and James Anthony Shaw are now the four gatekeepers of modern day music.
Let's start off with the least sucessful of the four. Simon has remodelled himself as Lord Skywave. An obscure solo project that is sparse radiohead (kid A). When Mr Hudson becomes huge next year, people should shake their heads at the fact that this album was made and no one listened to it.
Alex has according to the internet disappeared.

Shaw and Ford went on to form Simian Mobile disco. Who made an amazing album which had my favourite video of last year. they also made one of those nike run mixes.
Then Simon not to be upstaged in the dance arena teamed up with one of the dj's from the Wiseguys (Remember them?)
to form Black Ghosts, a vastly underrated act this year.
But James Ford had something else under his hat. Outside production for the following artists: Klaxons, Mystery Jets, Arctic Monkeys and Last Shadow Puppets. You know unknown no mark bands.
then there are the off shoots.
The other half of black ghosts is touche who is also remixing under the guise of Fake Blood.
And it was remix contest which brought together two parisians known as justice.

Tonight saw middle class kids around england cry as dirty pretty things played their last ever gig. Tomorrow morning the offspring of guardian reading hipster parents will cry into their bowls of wholegrain oatmeal as their retro demi god Carl cuts short the life of another fruitless retro rolling stones aping group.

You could hear a pin drop as the crowd didnt have a clue what was going on. If this was the last gig this wasn't one to remember. This was the equivalent of watching the old dog get shot outside the shed - except in slow motion. Only a select few knew the words and even they seemed bored by the middle of the hour long set.

If i was in a band and i knew it was my last ever show maybe i would try and give a shit. Instead the band coasted their way through the performance. It was so bad that i began to wish that i was watching some shit opening band or strictly come dancing. Anyone, i would have even watched snow patrol because at least they give a shit about their fans. Even though their fans are banking, coke snorting, nouveau riche, desperately hanging on to their youth, fans.

The thing is Carl Barat is Robbie Williams. The whole libertines story is the typical boyband story. Band makes it big (libertines), band breaks up (Pete doing more drugs and getting involved with cocaine Kate). Millions of girls cry just like when Take That split up. Offshoot band, thats DPT, does well at first but is ultimately shit (Gary Barlow). The other band leader comes out of reasonable acclaim to then reach world superstardom (Pete, although we are in the interim and im not sure he could make it to Take That level).

So the band wimpered out to a finale. What a sorry example. I am not of their fans but im pretty sure that i would have had more fun at a fucking UB40 gig.

With all that being said the odd looking hunchback of notre dame couple made up for it as they sang their way through the concert. dodging the spit coming from the braces of the pubescent fans at the front. Believe me it was a nightmare talking to girls at the show, im no Michael Jackson.

P.S. The dj's that dropped Dj Mujava's Township Funk - kudos to you. Fuck the ignorant crowd that treated this winter's biggest jam with the same fear that a virgin does with a flacid cock.