I don’t know if I’m just completely susceptible to this syrupy slice of faux-emotional depth or if there really is something almost tragic about this take on a pure pop dance-floor disco jam?

Is it totally empty? Sensationalist?

I love it.

#1 Antoine Dodson - Bed Intruder Song?

It’s tough to leave Antoine Dodson off this list after the all the time I spent laughing at “Rape Intruder Song,” but alas, no room for memes here. These are my favorite remixes of the year. With all of these songs producers took the original material and made a better song than the original. CFCF has been on a truly hot streak while Memory Tapes is losing it quick (and that is not for lack of attempts). The I Am Dead remix from CFCF has been one of my favorite songs all year and was even the centerpiece to my mix from earlier this year, “The Sun is Like a Flower.”

Drop a note in the comments and let me know what I missed that’s better than anything on this list.

If you have some of these on your computer and want to create a playlist just import this file as a playlist in iTunes and voila.

1. Jori Hulkkonen – I Am Dead (CFCF Remix)
2. Von Haze – OUTSYD THA NITE (White Car Edit, Salem Remix)
3. Korallreven – Loved-Up (LOLboys Remix)
4. Cocteau Twins – Elizabeth Fraser (Star Slinger Rework)
5. Cold Cave – Life Magazine (The Arthur Baker’s Not Coming Back Remix)

6. Salem – Asia (Jokers of the Scene Remix)
7. Florrie – Come Back to Mine (Elite Gymnastics Remix)
8. Taken by Trees – Anna (CFCF Remix)
9. Little Boots - ▼earthquake▼ d▲rkmix (Charm of Existence Remix)
10. CFCF – It Was Never Meant To Be This Way (Games Remix)

11. Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness (Steve Aoki Dance Remix)
12. HeRobust – Grief Case (Star Slinger WWHRD Remix)
13. FUR – Friends (Letherette Remix)
14. K-X-P – Pockets (Annie Vocal Dub)
15. Sebastien Tellier – Look (Laurel Halo Remix)

16. Washed Out – New Theory (Teen Daze Remix)
17. These New Puritans – Hologram (Salem Remix)
18. Miami Horror – Moon Theory (Baby Monster Remix)
19. Pirate Soundsystem – Dub n u (My Panda Shall Fly Dub)
20. Professor Green ftg. Lily Allen – JBGTG (Joker Remix)

Lots of triggered vocals, slowed down of course… still on the hip hop side of things after that These New Puritans remix (which I still like quite a lot).

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Reuse Recycle Remix is a feature where I take remixes that for one reason or another didn’t earn their own post or didn’t make it on LivingEars Radio. It’s been four months since I did this last and this is only a portion of what I had collected for this. I’ll likely do another post in a couple of weeks to cover some of the others worth mentioning.

Nelly Furtado- Promiscuous (Flying Lotus Remix)
LCD Soundsystem- Drunk Girls (Holy Ghost! Remix)
Balam Acab- See Birds (Coyote Clean Up Dub)
Glasser- Learn (John Talabot remix)
Phoenix- Fences (Friendly Fires Remix)

Everything Everything- MY KZ, YR BF (Memory Tapes Remix)
Vampire Weekend- White Sky (Basement Jaxx Club Mix)
Fiveng- Jonah (Star Slinger Remix)
Yeasayer- ONE (Teen Daze Remix)
Active Child- When Your Love Is Safe (Classixx Remix)

Chemical Brothers- Swoon (Boys Noize Summer Instrumental)
Memory Tapes- Green Knight (Creep Remix)
How to Dress Well- Ready For The World (Twin Sister Remix)
Shlohmo- Post Atmosphere (Baths Remix)
LCD Soundsystem- Home (Loving Good Mix)

M.I.A.- Tekquilla RMX f/ Nicki Minaj
Baths- Hall (Asura Remix)
HEALTH- Die Slow (Nite Jewel remix)
Korallreven- The Truest Faith (CFCF Remix)
M.I.A.- XXXO (Remix Feat. Jay-Z)

Caribou- Odessa (Junior Boys Remix)
Cults- Go Outside (bhts rmx)
I Blame Coco- Self Machine (Jakwob Remix)
LCD Soundsystem- You Wanted A Hit (Soulwax Remix)
Sleigh Bells- Rill Rill (George Lenton remix)
Pantha Du Prince- Welt Am Draht (Animal Collective Remix)

***UPDATE***
Hi y’all. I celebrated my birthday last week and on Saturday night during a surprise party I finally worked up the idiocy to purchase kittiesandtitties.net.

I am hoping that some of you will stop by and possibly contribute!

Here is a sample of what the site will continue to bring:

Kittiesandtitties.net

Tune into UtahFM every Saturday night 9-10:30 MDT to catch me spinning (digitally) the latest and greatest…

You can listen to a replay of the show at your convenience for the next two weeks right here.

UtahFM is looking for a few good men & women to host shows. If you think you are interesting and others think you are interesting and you have an interesting idea for a show… do something about it and contact me.

LivingEars Radio 08.14.10 Playlist

CFCF – Letters Home (Memoryhouse Remix)
These New Puritans – Hologram (Salem Remix)
No Age – Glitter
Teengirl Fantasy – Cheaters
Magic Places – Digital Lightspeed
Keep Shelly in Athens – A tear in my i
Teen Daze – Spin Around, Go Ahead
Beat Connection – Theme From Yours Truly
Teen Daze – Gone for the Summer
Beat Connection – Same Damn Time
The Avalanches – Radio
Star Slinger – Hold Me (Teams vs Star Slinger)
The Avalances – Live at Dominoes
Skream – Where You Should Be
LCD Soundsystem – I Can Change (Tiga Remix)
KXP – Pockets (Annie Vocal Mix)
The Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

I’m not as into this track as I am “Black Leather Gloves” but I am excited to hear more from this group who are part Zola Jesus, part Siouxsie and two parts evil.

Cosmetics – Soft Skin
Cosmetics – Black Leather Gloves
Cosmetics – Black Leather Gloves (Premier Rang/Cosmetics Remake)

:papercutz – Lylac (Helios Remix) from :papercutz on Vimeo.

I had never heard of :papercutz before but stumbled upon this via @lizzyville on twitter. She manages a great site and was giving this vid a nod so here we are. First things first, the song is really great. Add the gorgeous, lush images which come courtesy of Japanese animation star Daihei Shibataof and you get what I believe is supposed to represent the beginning of life –heady stuff– and you also get a great piece of art. <via>

Reuse Recycle Remix is a feature where I take remixes that for one reason or another didn’t earn their own post or didn’t make it on LivingEars Radio. 25 remixes, none is these are more than 10 weeks old… sit back, hit play, relax, remix.

Primary 1 – Foaming (White Room Version 05)
Wetdog – Lower Leg (Creep Remix)
Pional – In Another Room (Pional’s Reduxed Version)
Via Tania – Fields (Lemonade Remix)
Biscope – Little Dragon vs Burial (Twice)

Audio Bullys – Only Man (Jakwob Remix)
Comanechi – Close Enough to Kiss (Blondes Pebble Beach Mix)
The xx – Islands (CHLLNGR Remix)
MillionYoung – Day We Met (Golden Ages Remix)
PoLO – Party (Coyote Clean Up Pump Up Dub)

Rainbow Arabia – Kabuki (Pictureplane Negative Slave Rework)
Kingdom – Mindreader (CFCF Remix)
FUR – Clears Throat (Miracles Club Remix)
Caribou – Odessa (Nite Jewel Remix)
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home (RAC Mix)

Florrie – Call 911 (Fred Falke Remix)
Tegan and Sara – Alligator (Tor0 Y Moi Remix)
RJD2 – The Shining Path (Alan Wilkis Remix)
SDUK – Clunge (Phaseone Remix)
Tegan and Sara – Alligator (Troublemaker Remix)

Owen Pallett – Lewis Takes Off His Shirt (Dan Deacon Remix)
The Human League – Don’t You Want Me? (Computer Club Edit)
The Hidden Cameras – Underage (Holy Fuck Remix)
Animal Collective – My Girls (Mike Monday Unofficial Remix)
Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms (BRAHMS)

Slowly getting details about this new project made up of two females from Brooklyn going by the name of Creep…

They are Lauren Dillard + Lauren Flax and up until today I had only heard the 63 second slice of music on the duo’s MySpace. I asked when we will get to hear some additional music and here are the details from LFlax:

2 new original songs will be up in the next coming weeks to our myspace with Romy from the xx singing.
Set to release on TriAngle records (Kompakt’s sublabel) in the spring time.

**Update 02.19.10**
Robin from 20 Jazz Funk Greats just sent an email clarifying the label situation…
this is robin from tri angle. just wanted to make a few things clear in relation to the post you wrote about creep, as you have been slightly misinformed. tri angle is not a sublabel of kompakt, it is merely being distributed by kompakt, so if you could make that change that would be appreciated because it’s quite important to me. to be honest nothing was supposed to have been said about the project at this point in time, so i’m a little thrown off by everything that has taken place over the last day..

I am excited to hear what Romy will sound like over the top of some dark+glitchy sounds such as these.

They just sent this remix.
Baghdaddy – Hot Shit (Creep Remix)