Daft Punk - "Something About Us" (Cherokee Remix)

There's a lot of these Daft Punk bootleg remixes floating around with hit or miss results.  This one by fellow Frenchmen Cherokee does a good job of singling out and slightly reworking the funkiest elements of "Something About Us" one of the slower jams on the robotic duo's 2001 Discovery LP.  With a "don't fix it if it's not broken" ethic, Cherokee add a subtle Braxe/Falke air to the track and get rid of most of the original's vocals makings this a welcome addition to a world where Daft Punk have yet to release new original material that's not Disney related since the mid 00s. Listen to or download it below:
 

Listen: Massive Attack - "3D & Vermona Demo "

Massive Attack have been keeping active as of late with another bit of music they released via their Facebook yesterday in celebration of 11/11/11. Check out the 3D & Vermona Demo in the player below… 

3D & VERMONA DEMO by Euan Me

Marc Miroir - "Black Amber"

Released on Bondage Records, Marc Miroir's "Black Amber" is a minimal techno track with a variety of influences. With cacophonous distorted brass swipes, spacey effects and a single note arpeggio bassline that would fit well in an old school electro track Mark Miroir creates a unique soundscape that takes the genre to another direction. Listen to "Black Amber" below:

Marc Miroir - Black Amber - (BOND12019-Snippet) by Bondage-Music

D/R/U/G/S - "Mila"

This is one of those tracks that doesn't break any ground but is instantly gratifying and at the same time difficult to pigeonhole.  On "Mila", D/R/U/G/S' delay drenched buzzing synths set a melancholy ambience that is pierced by the vocal male and female vocal snippets seemingly addressing eachother playfully yet non-sensically.  The track will not be featured on the Brits upcoming "Connected" EP on Moshi Moshi but we hope it gets a proper vinyl release at some point - until then you can listen to it below. You should also check out the balearic tinged Keep Shelly in Athens remix of the Brit's older track "Love/Lust" which we also posted for your convenience below.

D/R/U/G/S - Love Lust (Keep Shelly in Athens remix) by Keep Shelly in Athens

Elite Gymnastics - "So Close to Paradise 3 (Physical Therapy Remix)"

Drum & Bass has been getting quite a beating since the 'invention' of dubstep in the mid-00s.  "It's too fast" or "it's macho music" are the usual accusations and to some extent they're warranted...it's difficult too play with space, composition and melody at such tempos and, yes, anyone whose been clubbing to d&b knows that the guy/girl ratio leans heavily toward one side.  This being said d&b was one of the most innovative scenes in electronic music and is responsible for a lot for the sounds we hear today, especially in dusbtep circles (basslines and drum sounds from the dark era of d&b - the whole "who has the roughest bassline" competition isn't a dubstep novelty after all) and even in techno (atmospherics from the lates 90s and the Metalheadz era - just check out this hommage mix by techno masterminds Raime).  However, having just heard this Physical Therapy  remix of Elite Gymnastics' "So Close to Paradise 3",  we're tempted  to raise a 'new sub-genre alert'...is this the return of d&b in a romanticised retro lo-fi packaging?  The sound of the 90s is coming back in many ways: balearic Ibiza nostalgia with Air France, instrumental hip-hop with Clams Casino or, more recently, Chicago house.  This track even features a carefully selected slice of the  Faithless spoken word vocal sample from their decade defining "Insomnia" hit, taking the track to 90s cult-classic levels.  Regardless of the potential wider significance of this track (we might be reading to much into this but  once u hear it, you'll understand what we mean), we highly suggest you give it an objective listen below (or download it for free via the Fader):

Elite Gymnastics, "So Close To Paradise 3 (Physical Therapy Remix)" MP3 by The FADER

Watch: Sepalcure - "Pencil Pimp" Music Video

It's an exciting time for underground electronic music.  Genre boundaries are becoming more and more obsolete as many artists are consciously transceding their niche scenes and combining elements from various fields of electronic music.  This seems to be happening at all levels, be it the more obvious macro level of wider genres such as dubstep and techno (see artists such as Martyn, Guy Andrews and Scuba) or micro levels of sub-genres rapidly bouncing influences back and forth.  Sepalcure's "Pencil Pimp" (aka Travis Stewart of Machinedrume and Praveen Sharma of Braille) belongs to the latter category.  The track is a interesting combination of stripped back high-treble bass music with a Mount Kimbie shuffle with vocal snippets treated in a ghost-hop witchy kinda way, similar to Holy Other's work.  Watch their video for "Pencil Pimp", which also works on multiple levels visually, below: