LUXXURY PART 2: REMIXES BY OTHR PPL

Music:

Member Since: 16/01/2007
Band Website: http://www.luxxury.com
Band Members: Janus:
1. “Drunk (Janus London/Berlin Remix)”

Janus is the remix and production name of London DJ/producer Jamie D Winter, a resident at London's (in)famous electro clubs Computer Blue, Trailer Trash, and Stereo Suicide. Janus’s remix of “Drunk” disintegrates the original song parts into small fragments of sound before expanding, distorting, and treating the fragments individually. The result is a complex structure that, although very different from the original sound, still holds the general feeling of the song; especially the feelings of loss and movement.

Sounds a bit like:
Ellen Allien, minimal techno, Berlin at 3am, small kittens eating dynamite.

More about this artist: www.myspace.com/jamiedwinter

All Night Dance Party:
2. “Sweet And Vicious (More Vicious Than Sweet Edit)”

All Night Dance Party are an electronic duo from Vancouver, CA. Their vocoderriffcally aggressive "nothing-is-too-poppy" style, has made them favorites of Big Stereo, Acid Girls and many other of the major electronic blogs. ANDP gives Luxxury’s synthpop song “Sweet and Vicious” an abrasive kick, growly saw-basslines, and turns it into a dancefloor banger, harness a true "stuck in your head all night (dance party)" quality.

Sounds a bit like:
Depeche Mode, Microkorg madness, cupcakes, pillow fights.

More about this artist: http://www.myspace.com/allnightdancepartyband

Devin Dirt:
3. “Rock and Roll is Evil (Fat Elvis Remix)”

Brooklyn producer Devin Dirt combines industrial techno with dirty house “and serves it with a hot cup of fuck you.” The emininently quotable Devin goes on to explain: “This track is dedicated to Fat Elvis whose morbid overindulgence and total lack of shame were of great inspiration.” Devin was one of the earliest members of Luxxury and co-wrote “Sweet and Vicious” with Baron von Luxxury.

Sounds a bit like:
Machine Punk, Nine Inch Nails, vitriol, sarcastic sex.

More about this artist: http://www.myspace.com/devindirt
http://www.blackvanrecords.com

Baron von Luxxury:
4. “Drunk (Lovesick Vocoders at Night Version)”
10: “Sweet and Vicious (Exxpensive Re-edit)”

Is it easier or harder to remix your own song? If you’re Baron von Luxxury, it’s liable to take two and a half years and destroy several hard drives in the process. “Devin (Dirt) and I originally did this remix to take with us to Miami for Winter Music Conference 2005,” says von Luxxury. “Devin sampled the original song with his MPC and made this cool riff, so I built a basic arrangement around that. Then we went back and forth adding parts. But both our hard drives died and all we had left was a low quality MP3 of it." For the next two years, BvL tried to rebuild the song, but "it wasn't until I started hearing the remixes coming in from other people for this record that I finally had an incentive to bite the bullet and redo the whole song from scratch."

Baron von Luxxury is a songwriter, producer, and a Russian jew with a penchant for pretentious words like "penchant." In addition to the band Luxxury, BvL is a producer who has done remixes for Scissors for Lefty , Dirty Sanchez, CSS, Robots in Disguise, Glass Candy . He is also a member of The Workout , a DJ/production team who have a monthly residency at Duplex in San Francisco and a daily updated MP3 blog at www.discoworkout.com . BvL’s remix for Scissors for Lefty’s “Ghetto Ways” will be released on Eenie Meanie and Rough Trade Records on June 12.

Sounds a bit like: Duran Duran, Devo, celebrity nipple slips, chasing a girl named Anna von B. around the discos of Europe (true story).

More about this artist:
www.myspace.com/baronvonluxxury
http://www.luxxury.com

Johnatron:
5. “Sweet and Vicious (Johnatron's Short Circuit Remix)”
6. “Drunk (Beeper City's Groundpounder Dub)”

Hailing from the East Bay Area, specifically the lush utopian climes of Fremont, Johnatron and Beeper City are two alter egos of decidedly ego-free 21 year-old whiz-kid John Sagouspe. For the Sweet and Vicious remix, “I was experimenting with some new analog equipment, the Roland Jupiter series and my sequential Pro One. I was trying to find a way to preserve the new wave feeling of the original and add my signature sequenced basslines to the remix.” For “Drunk”, Johnatron began his remix one year ago, but “I kept losing the a capella, so I decided to make a dub.” The results are complete reworkings of the original songs, that somehow retains the essential DNA of those tracks. Johnatron is also a founding member of "The Workout", a DJ collective in San Francisco and an mp3 blog.

Sounds like:
Yaz, The Chemical Brothers, Stuart Price, Baudelaire, Lacoste flip flops.

More about this artist:
http://www.myspace.com/millieguam
http://www.discoworkout.com
Barbeau
7. “Sex With Rich People (Barbeau's Lucky Synth Remix)”

LA-based producer, DJ, and musician, Barbeau is a founding member in electro-rock Dirty Sanchez (Hypnotic Recordings), and has played with Duran Duran, Fannypack, Miss Kittin, Moby, Les Rhythmes Digitales, Cassius and many more. Barbeau’s Moroderrifc remix came together during the Dirty Sanchez/Luxxury Tour in 200. “I’d heard the song on the CD and live a few times and had imagined my own version in my head. From there it was just a matter of putting together all the pieces and making it a reality. The rest is history.”

Sounds like:
1981, Giorgio Moroder, white leather Barbarella boots, Really Rich Italian Satanists.

More about this artist:
www.myspace.com/barbeaumusic
www.iambarbeau.com

Toulouse Fight Club
8. “Drunk (Toulouse Fight Club Remix)”

Toulouse Fighting Club is J.B Casini and Damien Louchet, two French DJ/producers, who actually live in Toulouse, France. J.B Casini is member of the Electroluxe family while Damien Louchet is member of the Holmes DJ Club. The duo approached BvL after Luxxury performed in London last fall and asked whether they could take a shot at a remix. The result begins as a stripped down, simplified take on the original that explores and exploits the core human components (vocals, bass, live drums). But gradually the robots join in, and before long they’ve demolished everything in a french acid frenzy.

Sounds like:
LCD Soundsystem, naked people, acid, croissants.

More about this artist:
www.myspace.com/theholmesdjclub
http://www.myspace.com/dicklaurentisdead

Low Pressure System:
9. “Understood (Low Pressure System Remix)”

Low Pressure System is a Vancouver based production duo consisting of industry veteran RC Lair and producer Alex DeGrace (also of Male Model Machine). Together they focus on hard hitting beats and filthy basslines, both in remix work and original productions. ”We wanted to maintain the rock/indie feel of the original, while adding punchy drums and bass hooks. This approach worked well, and with the use of some effects and edits the track came together into a cohesive whole we feel well represents our sound.”

Sounds like:
Black Sabbath eating Kraftwerk, the 1980 Olympic boycott, a British Columbian Necktie.

More about this artist:
http://myspace.com/lps808

Audrock:
11. “Drunk (Audrock's Loaded Remix)”

Chad “Audrock” Liscinsky began DJing jungle and D’n’B in Los Angeles at the age of 16 before moving to Arizona where he added promoting and opening the area’s first electronic dance/hip hop record store to his CV. After getting a degree in music production in Boston, he landed in San Francisco where he has become one of the city’s hottest electro DJs and the host “Loaded”, a wildly successful monthly party. Of his remix of “Drunk”, Chad says “it started out completely different - I began with the intention of an all out rock-tech approach,” which he completed and decided to abandon completely. Basically, its a little moody- synth rock jam which are a combination styles i hold dear to my heart.

Sounds like:
Black Sabbath eating Kraftwerk, the 1980 Olympic boycott, a British Columbian Necktie.

More about this artist:
www.myspace.com/audrock1
Sounds Like: giorgio moroder, van she tech, simian mobile disco, kissy sell out, boys noize, lcd soundsystem, ladytron, the presets, cut copy, midnight juggernauts, ellen allien, new order, disco, disco, disco.
Record Label: Nolita Records
Type of Label: Indie