Neither am I.

F,O.O.L. – We’re Not French EP Teaser

Coming across exciting new music while browsing the darkest depths of my spam folder always feels like a little triumph to me, confirming that my human brain is still superior to Google’s supercomputers separating the wheat from the chaff. However, I understand that it might be quite difficult for Google’s code monkeys to whitelist an email from a procuder called (yes, I’m not joking here) Mr. Penisman.

According to his SoundCloud profile, Mr. Penisman is based anywhere in Germany and quite busy in terms of producing music – which is basically everything I know about him. His latest stroke is a remix for Does It Offend You, Yeah?’s We Are The Dead – a track that I can imagine very well to play as an intro for a full-on electro set, as it keeps building and building for almost two minutes, beginning with a simple piano melody and climaxing in an overdriven, distorted synth madness. Kudos!

Does It Offend You, Yeah? – We Are The Dead (Mr. Penisman Remix)

Do you speak German?

Laserkraft 3D – Nein Mann (Disco Trash Music Remix)

The following mixtape has not been approved for all audiences. Rated R for strong language, disturbing loudness and pervasive basslines on little known frequencies – a mixtape with a smile.

Disco Demons – Mixtape With A Smile

[photo: Andreas Zilka | graphics: Audiolook]

One of my all-time favorite producers is back, “cementing his reputation as the dark horse of the French electronic scene”, to paraphrase the press release: Danger recently put his magic remix fingerprint on Acid Washed‘s self-titled release, resulting in what can be best described as a baroque future sci-fi organ harpsicord madness. Record Makers are celebrating their 10th birthday and are therefore generously giving away this gem for free – more remixes by the likes of The Hacker, Daniel Haaksman and Ed Banger’s Mickey Moonlight, so you might want to check out the entire EP.

Editor’s note: This track is certainly not designed to be raped by your MacBook speakers, so please give it a listen on a proper stereo or headphones.

Acid Washed – Acid Washed (Danger Remix)

Today I was facing a tough decision concerning what to share on my blog, as I could’ve posted up Don Diablo’s latest bootleg remix for Moby’s 1994 rave classic Feeling So Real which would’ve guaranteed a few thousand new incoming visitors by quickly rocketing up to astronomic heights in the Hypem charts .

Instead, I chose an amazingly beautiful piece of music that I found in my SoundCloud dropbox last night and have had on constant repeat from 8.24pm, yesterday onwards (with a short interruption in order to give said Don Diablo remix a listen, of course) – I’m still listening as I’m typing. Some of you might recgonize it, as we’re talking about a remix of Hans Zimmer’s excellent soundtrack for Chris Nolan’s latest motion picture Inception here (those of you who haven’t heard the original are strongly entrusted to give it a listen!). After watching the movie, Hungarian producer Peter Bergmann, better known as We Plants Are Happy Plants, sat down in a flurry of inspiration and created his own take of Time, the closing piece of the movie’s soundtrack.

It sure takes a hell of a producer to touch up a perfect masterpiece like Time and find some space for improvement – I’m reverently raising my hat to this genius here. The masterly arrangement of dramatic piano melodies, epic orchestra soundscapes and driving drum rolls left me speechless after the first listen. This is certainly one of the best works I’ve heard in a long time.


Hans Zimmer – Time (We Plants Are Happy Plants Remix)

As this is an unauthorised bootleg remix, I’m unfortunately not allowed to share a download link for the mp3 file, so the player is set to streaming-only. You might also want you can check out WPAHP’s Apollo on iTunes. For those of you who are more in the banger-mood today, here‘s the Don Diable remix I was talking about.