Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Bloc Party YouTubeage...

Gordy and Matt interviewed backstage in NYC for Elle.com

Possibly the most unusual / multi-layered mashup ever...'Where Is Diana's Home?' by Colatron

Bloc Party - 'Where Is Home?' (Burial Remix) vs. Sabres of Paradise - 'Haunted Dancefloor' vs. Michael Jackson - 'Dirty Diana' vs. Princess Diana - Martin Bashir interview

Labels: Interviews, Mashups, Videos

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

US & Canada tour announced for Spring 2009!

Bloc Party have just released details of a full US & Canada tour beginning in March...

13.03.09 Kool Haus, Toronto

14.03.09 Kool House, Toronto

15.03.09 Centennial Hall, London ON

17.03.09 Bronson Centre, Ottawa

18.03.09 Metropolis, Montreal

19.03.09 House of Blues, Boston

21.03.09 Electric Factory, Philadelphia

22.03.09 9:30 Club, Washington DC

24.03.09 Terminal 5, New York

25.03.09 Terminal 5, New York

27.03.09 Ultra Festival, Miami

28.03.09 Riviera Theatre, Chicago

30.03.09 First Avenue, Minneapolis

31.03.09 The Pageant, St. Louis

26.04.09 Commodore, Vancouver

29.04.09 Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton

30.04.09 Big Four, Calgary

01.05.09 Odeon, Saskatoon

03.05.09 Burton Cummings, Winnipeg

It seems like Britney Spear's 'Womanizer' is the mashup artist's track du jour...following on from this mashup, here's another Bloc-Britney mixture. I'll leave you to decide whether or not it's any good...

[Download] 'Signs of a Womanizer' (Britney Spears - 'Womanizer' vs. Bloc Party - 'Signs')

Labels: Mashups, Tour

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

San Diego, CA - House Of Blues, 16.12.08

[Setlist]

One Month Off / Hunting For Witches / Positive Tension / Waiting For The 7.18 / Song For Clay (Disappear Here) / Banquet / Signs / Letter To My Son / Two More Years / Talons / So Here We Are / Like Eating Glass

Halo / The Prayer / The Sun Always Shines On T.V. (A-ha cover) - Flux / Helicopter

Ares / This Modern Love / She's Hearing Voices

P.S. Here's a new mashup of 'Mercury' with Britney Spears' 'Womanizer', featured on Stereogum & team9 Present... MySplice III.

[Download] 'Britney Gets Bloc-ed' (Britney Spears - 'Womanizer' vs. Bloc Party - 'Mercury')

Labels: Mashups, Setlists

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

I Kissed A Banquet...

Download here a mashup of 'Banquet' with Katy Perry's 'I Kissed A Girl'. The two songs sound made for each other, and it actually makes her track fairly listenable...

Also, Pitchfork are currently offering up Bloc Party's remix of 'Salt, Peppa and Spinderella', the new single by ace Brummie aggro-popsters Johnny Foreigner, as a free download. Point your clicky peripheral here!

Labels: Audio, Mashups, Other_bands, Remixes

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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Download 'Uniform' mashup

Download below a genius mashup of Bloc Party's 'Uniform' with 'Same Old Song' by The Four Tops...

Labels: Mashups

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Monday, February 04, 2008

Kitsuné Maison Compilation 5...out now!

Just a reminder that Kitsuné Maison's new compilation, featuring Pin Me Down's 'Cryptic', is out today in the UK...order it here (UK) or here (US)!

Edit: Read Pitchfork's review of the compilation here, featuring glowing praise for the PMD track!

"It's compositional effort rather than any specific sound that defines the compilation's several successes. Pin Me Down's by turns sneering and sighing "Cryptic" aims for a midpoint between the Bush Tetras and early Bananarama, and comes out sounding like an ace angry Girls Aloud single. Which should tell us two things: Firstly, that combining rock guitar and beat-heavy electronic production in pop songs isn't so novel that these artists deserve a medal just for turning up, and, conversely, that this very combination can aspire to pop majesty when the participants try hard enough."

And here's another Bloc Party mashup by ToToM...

[Download] 'Little Flux' (Bloc Party vs. Queens Of The Stone Age's 'Little Sister')

Labels: Mashups, Other_releases, Pin_Me_Down

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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Groovecopter

Here's another mashup for your collection - Bloc Party vs. Madonna by DJ Schmolli...rockin'!

[Download] 'Groovecopter' ('Helicopter' vs. Madonna - 'Into The Groove')

Labels: Mashups

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Bangers and Mashups

A plethora of Bloc Party mashups have surfaced over the past few weeks. Here's the pick of the bunch!

'Helicopter' is used as the backing track for 'I Got 5 On It', 90s lost classic by hip-hop duo Luniz:

[Download] 'I Got 5 Helicopters' ('Helicopter' vs. Luniz - 'I Got 5 On It')

Bloc Party get reimagined as an 80s soft rock band by dj lobsterdust:

[Download] 'She's Hearing In The Air Tonight' ('She's Hearing Voices' vs. Phil Collins - 'In The Air Tonight')
[Download] 'She's Like Sunday Wind' ('Sunday' vs. Tony Sunshine - 'She's Like The Wind')

Two 'Hunting For Witches' mashups by ToToM, French bootlegger extraordinaire:

[Download] 'Hunting For Witches In My Place' ('Hunting For Witches' vs. Coldplay - 'In My Place')
[Download] 'Witches (What You Hunting For?)' ('HFW' vs. Gwen Stefani - 'What You Waiting For?)

And finally, probably the most successful mashup (and definitely the grooviest)...'The Prayer's floor-filling potential gets ramped up even further by obscure Canadian new wavers, Martha and the Muffins (mashed by Sam Flanagan):

[Download] 'Beach Party' ('The Prayer' vs. Martha and the Muffins 'Echo Beach')

Labels: Audio, Mashups, Remixes

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