Remix Funday

Hey ya'll.....I have to hook you up with a blog that I stumbled onto recently called Palms Out Sounds. Billing itself as an "Independent New York Collective's Music and Culture Blog", it is hip-hop centric but they have two weekly features that should please a variety of music connoisseurs.

The first is Remix Sunday, and it's the reason I found these guys. Every week someone named Haldan posts remixes of all sorts, and going back through the archives I found some real gems. Ladytron remixed by Interpol? Check. A Bjork track remixed with Kelis? Yep. There is also Daedelus vs. Diplo, Brazilian Girls vs. MSTRKRFT, and Bloc Party reworking Chromeo. Just to give you an idea of the diversity of this stuff. As with all remixes, some of the collaborations look better on paper, but there are so many (and they are so free...) that you are bound to unearth something you like. (I still haven't had time to listen to everything I've grabbed, but I just shook my ass in my hospital bed to the Fischerspooner remix of Kylie Minogue's "Come into My World." Not sure how I have never heard that one...)

The second weekly feature, called Sample Wednesday is a little more classy. Every week they choose a different hip hop artist or producer or crew, and provide the full length versions of 5-10 original songs they stole/borrowed samples from. I'm still sorting through this goodness, but I've already got all the Jay-Z tracks. One week they feature David Axelrod, who I discovered recently through Pitchfork's Greatest Songs of the 1960's feature.

I've said enough. Go check it owt. Click on the pic.