New site, new URL new era!

January 18, 2008 by Musique Magnifique

We are moving onto a new site. All new updates will appear there. From now on you can find us at:

http://musiquemagnifique.net

The new site isn’t completely ready yet but all content of this blog is available over there!

Musique Magnifique MySpace

January 16, 2008 by Musique Magnifique


Yes, we like to have friends. Jump on the bandwagon and join us at MySpace!

New Miss Kittin single & album

January 14, 2008 by Musique Magnifique

Our favourite French catwoman returns with a new single coming off the forthcoming and second studio album ‘BatBox’, which will be released later this month.

The single is out now and features two remixes of this track: On one side “9/11″, a tense and broody club mix from Norwegian underground talent Black Labelle. On the other, JoJo de Freq, fellow DJ playmate and NagNagNag resident, adds a big, bouncing, acid-tinged bassline and Euro-synth stabs to her “Beauty is Terror” mix.

Listen below to ‘Kittin is High’ including the remixes as featured on the single release.

Miss Kittin - Kittin is High
Miss Kittin - Kittin is High (JoJo De Freq’s Remix)

Miss Kittin - Kittin is High (9/11 Mix by Black Labelle)

Rob Reger also designed a limited edition picture disc that you’ll find in your local record store. A “normal” vinyl edition is also available. And you can download the single at beatport or any other online record store.

The album “BatBox” is out on Nobody’s Bizzness in late January 2008. Listen to a few new tracks of Miss Kittin’s forthcoming album below. Enjoy.

Play Me A Tape
Solidsarockstar
Barefoot Tonight

BatBox tracklist:

01. Kittin is high
02. Batbox
03. Grace
04. Solid as a rockstar
05. Barefoot tonight
06. Play me a tape
07. Pollution of the mid
08. Wash ‘n Dry
09. Metalhead
10. Machine joy
11. Sunset strip
12. Playmate of the century
13. Lightmaker

Visit Miss Kittin online here.

A Bag of Tunes # 3

January 12, 2008 by Musique Magnifique

A Bag of Tunes 3 sees the return of Musique Magnifique favourites Yuksek & Brodinski, Kissy Sell Out and SebastiAn. Also don’t ignore the Big Face single on Kitsuné ‘I Wanna Be A Style Crusader’, it’s class. We highly recommend the Yuksek & Brodinski mix of Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya’s ‘Fuck Friend’, apart from the track what a brilliant band name! Check out the pick of the moment below. Enjoy.

The Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (Kissy Sell Out Mix)

Sebastien Tellier - Sexual Sportswear (SebastiAn Remix)

Big Face - I Wanna Be A Style Crusader

Etienne De Crecy - Punk

Tepr - Minuit Jacuzzi (DatA Remix)

Autokratz - Reaktor

Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya - Fuck Friend (Yuksek & Brodinski Remix)

Most listed music is available through beatport.com or amazon, buy it! For artist links check the right sidebar.

Blokgolf

January 11, 2008 by Musique Magnifique

Who said Holland were behind on the indie/dance front? Dutch duo Blokgolf (Aux of MasssiveMusic and Houston of MeloManics) are quickly making a name for themselves with their remixes of Comtron, MeloManics, Matik, Hasselhoff and Krause. While they also did a rework of MC Miker & DJ Sven’s ‘Holiday Rap’. The Amsterdam based duo are currently working on their debut album and the remix of Ravage! Ravage!’s ‘I Want You To Want Me’.

Apart from all the producing activities they still find time to DJ now and then. Catch Blokgolf DJing @ Club 8 (Amsterdam) on the 1st of February.

Visit Blokgolf at MySpace and Hyves.

MeloManics - WYSIWYL (Blokgolf Remix)

Matik - Dance It Off (Blokgolf Remix)

Hasselhoff - One Eyed Lover (Blokgolf Remix)

Comtron - Evil OS (Blokgolf Remix)

Krause - Pleasuretrip (Blokgolf Remix)

MC Miker G & DJ Sven - Holiday Rap (Blokgolf Remix)

Kissy Sell Out

January 8, 2008 by Musique Magnifique

Kissy Sell Out was one of the most sought after remixers of 2007 and rightly so. Over the last two years he transformed tracks of Gwen Stefani, All Saints, Mark Ronson, Sugababes, Loose Cannons, Dragonette, Black Ghosts, Groove Armada, Remi Nicole and even The Libertines into filthy electro bangers! He has just released his four track EP called ‘Get Busy Tropicana’, this EP was limited distributed so all proceeds are able to go straight to the British Association for Adopting and Fostering. Very noble Kissy! Buy this EP at your local record shop!

Visit Kissy Sell Out here and listen to his podcasts here.

Here’s a selection of his best remixes to date…

Calvin Harris - Merrymaking At My Place (Kissy Sell Out Remix)

Remi Nicole - Fed Up (Kissy Sell Out Remix)

Mark Ronson - Stop Me (Kissy Sell Out Remix)

Gwen Stefani - Wind It Up (Kissy Sell Out Remix)

Black Ghosts - Face (Kissy Sell Out’s Essex Street Corner Dubplate)

Sugababes - About You Now (Kissy Sell Out Remix)

When you find something you like don’t hesitate and buy the track(s) online at beatport or via the iTunes store. Remember: always support musique you enjoy!

Monday blues

January 7, 2008 by Musique Magnifique

Photo by Niall+

A few tunes to ease the monday blues.

Aka The Junkies - Konijntje (Seymour Bits Remix)

Fucking mindblowing remix of Willy Wartaal’s latest project ‘Aka The Junkies’ by the Dutch Electrofunk hero Seymour Bits (aka Bastian aka Bas Bron). Visit his MySpace and official site.

Headman - Running Into Time (Lele Remix)

Lele does the remix routine…what a monster again! Visit the MySpace for more ‘ghettotech’.

Bloc Party - Flux (Metal On Metal Remix)

We are big Metal On Metal fans, the Lithuanian trio rarely disappoint on remix duty and this mix of Bloc Party’s ‘Flux’ is no exception. Just like you’d expect: electrometal! Pay a visit to their MySpace and listen to more of their mad stuff!

Aka The Junkies - Konijntje (Hitmeister Diskonijntje Remix)

Less funky than Seymour’s mix but will go down a treat on the dancefloor nevertheless, proper stuff!

Editors - An End Has A Start (The Whip Remix)

Bleepy electro mix by The Whip. Pay an online visit to The Whip here or better come to Paradiso (Amsterdam) next thursday (Jan 10th), where they will be joined by WhoMadeWho and Shameboy for a fantastic night of electro/indiedance!

Icelandic coolness: Steed Lord

January 6, 2008 by Musique Magnifique

Steed Lord are M.E.G.A., Kali, Demo & Banana$, four hip musicians from Iceland. Steed Lord brings us cool synth driven crunky disco/electro house in their whole own ‘neon’ tradition. Although the foursome are from Iceland and are dropping phat tunes since 2006 they are still hot as fuck as we speak….for the people who haven’t discovered them listen up…erm..below!

Steed Lord - Who U Wit

Steed Lord - Feel The Heat

Steed Lord - Dirty Mutha (DJ Mehdi Remix)

For more Steed Lord visit their MySpace here.

A Bag of Tunes # 2

January 6, 2008 by Musique Magnifique

A bag of fresh tunes. Nine new dancefloor minded tunes and one chill-out tune for the afterhours! The music will be online for 14 days so enjoy while you can! All listed music is ready for purchase at beatport, juno and amazon.

Adam Freeland - Hate

Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin’ (Les Petits Pilous Remix)

Boys Noize - Lava Lava (Feadz Aval Aval Mix)

Les Petits Pilous - Jolie Fille

The Presets - My People (D.I.M. Remix)

Muscles - Ice Cream

Black Ghosts - Anyway You Choose It (The Whip Remix)

The Wombats - Kill The Director (CSS Remix)

Mr. Miyagi - Pick Your Poison (Pfunkt Remix)

Caribou ft. Luke LaLonde, Adem & One Little Plane - Melody Day (Four Tet Remix)

You can find links to the websites of featured artists on the right sidebar of this website under ‘Cool artists’.

Muscles ‘Sweaty’!

January 4, 2008 by Musique Magnifique

Monday January 7th will see the release of another Modular single. This times it’s Muscles’ ‘Sweaty’, a dancefloor hit taken off the Muscles’ album “Guns Babes Lemonade”. ‘Sweaty’ is a bonanza of funky basslines and 80’s synths, this tune really lives up to it’s name and will get you sweaty in no time!

The 12″ features remixes by Juan MacLean and Shazam. The former is a nice tech-house re-work but the latter proves to be the best of the pack. The Australian Shazam does things a tad slower than MacLean’s ‘techy’ version but it’s so incredibly funky, we love it!

You can order the digital release from the UK iTunes store and the physical release on pre-order at HMV or Juno.

Visit Muscles, Juan MacLean, Shazam online!

Here’s the original version by Muscles, also check out the video below! The remixes will follow in a later post.

Muscles - Sweaty