He's (not) on the Phones: Bloc Party remixer to stop knob twiddling
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Bloc Party's new single 'Talons', out October 20 via Wichita, promises to be something of a collector's item - it'll contain the last ever Phones (AKA producer Paul Epworth) remix. Epworth has announced his intention to stop messing around with other people's songs after this release:
"I'd always wanted to have a crack at remixing something for a club. The first proper remix I did was of Bloc Party's 'Banquet', the day after I'd mixed the original Moshi Moshi version in the back bedroom on a laptop. Three Years on and [after] nearly forty remixes for people including New Order, U2 and P-Diddy, I've decided to end the name where I started it; with Bloc Party"
Bloc Party return from their North American tour at the end of the month to play the following dates:
September
30 London Kentish Town Forum
October
19 Glasgow Barfly
DiScuss: What do you make of the new Bloc Party sound? Pushing things forward or a step too far? Will you miss Paul Epworth's skills? Or are most remixes a bit gash?
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most
remixes that I get hold of tend to be fun for about ten minutes. Admittedly they're good for when you're having a few drinks and want to listen to more upbeat versions of your favourite songs. There are some exeptions, nite versions for example.
I quite like the Banquet mix he did
I don't think I heard anything else from him though. So I won't miss him...
The new Bloc Party sound neither pushes things forward or goes to far.
indie remixes
have always been a bit throw away. But the dance scene of pretty much all genres has some amazing ones that often beat the originals.
now Epworth's got some time on his hands...
..can he reform Lomax? that would be ace.
The video reminds me of Firestarter.
Except this ones in a car park...
?
Whitey remix of Helicopter
was better, I feel.
I really like Intimacy
but at first listen this sounds really boring. Where's the hook? Just a really bland mainstream indie song. And why is Kele running round with his top off and his pants on display. Hoping to be the new Calvin Klein poster boy?
look at his arms though
he is so buff, has he always been so buff? look at his arms!!!
I like the Phone's remixes.
His version on Banquet is brilliant and the Madchester remix of Tom Vek's Nothing But Green Lights is amazing.
He's
a better producer than remixer IMHO, so this is fine.
^
.
He did a Futureheads 'Hound of Love' remix that was incredible.
But it seems that this is the end of a 'name', not the end of him remixing things
Hungry Eppo
mixes are always worse than the original track. It's the law.
He's so hit and miss
Some of his remixes are fantastic (Banquet, Hounds of Love, DFA 1979 etc,) but some, most actually, are run of the mill indie disco.
i thought that at first
but now i cant get the chorus out of my fucking head
:(
It's one of my personal favourites!
I always liked the 'Retreat' one and the Wolf & Cub one also
strange to think that Banquet was mixed on a laptop.
I am a big Phones fan
loving his work on Retreat and Banquet. Got em on the Modular Leave Em All Behind compilation (Vol 1) which is utterly ace.
shucks
he was brilliant! The mix of Interpol's Heimlich Manouver was pretty good. It takes a smidge of a piano sample and builds the song around it. His remix was what got me into DFA1989. :(
.
1989? lol
lol
just simply 'DFA' should have sufficed. darnn
his 'blood on our hands' remix was his only good one.
apart from that he was fucking awful.
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