says Drop Out Orchestra! Hear what they did with Cortex – The Freaks!

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Todd Terje beats everybody… Let’s just be honest. The rare occasions he’s produced a track it’s been glorious, and his remixes are devine. His edits on the other hand… are superhumanbiglikemeteors! Like this edit of Paul Simon’s “She’s Got Diamonds On The Sole Of Her Feet”.  It’s just stupifying!

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Fox Base Alpha by Saint Etienne is still one of my all time favorit albums. I completely missed that there was a Fox Base Beta out there. On this Fox Base Beta there’s a striking, stunning and gorgeous remix of Only Love Can Break Your Heart. How I missed it is beyond me. It rose to my attention after having listened to Simon Iddols Only Iceland Can Break Your Heart mashup over at Audioporn. Magnificent mashup if you ask me.

Richard X did an outstanding job keeping the vital parts in, updating, making them ready for the new generation and polishing it up in general. Have a listen!

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–> Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Richard X Remix Extended Instrumental) <–

In the near future you’ll see another blogger pushing great music here on Audio Avalon: afortheandy, is the name, great love for music and exquisite taste is his game. Welcome!

I have been contemplating this for quite a while. 2010 was, as for music, one of the finest years since 1987-88. Here’s my list of the best tracks from 2010:

1: Diana Ross & The Supremes – My World Is Empty Without You (Drop Out Orchestra Remix) Stupfyingly mellow, haunting and slick rendtion of this old upbeat classic. What a surprise!

2: Marcos Cabral & SHUX – Lifetime Groove As for edits this one takes the price. I’m heaving a dead hard time believing that it will ever be topped!

3: Drop Out Orchestra – Baby Come Home (Sit On My Ritz) (dub) Drop Out Orchestra probably took up most listening time of any other act for me in 2010. 2011 will see them take on world domination. Mark my words!

4: Washed Out – Belong Lo-Fi, Lo-bit mellow-pop as crunchy as Rice Crispies! Perma-player on my iPod for litterally months!

5: Jamie Woon – Night Air Jamie burst out of nothing for me. Not my style at all, but this track’s production (big ups to Burial) is just up in the skies! Stunning!

6: Steve Reich – Electric Counterpoint III Fast (Röyksopp’s True To The Original Edit) Next to Manuel Göttsching’s E2 E4, this track’s original ranks on top of my all time favs. Röyksopp really saw the soul in this, spiffed it up with Norwegian mellowness and a dash of melancholy. Magical!

7: Florrie – Fascinate Me (Fred Falke Edit) Florrie broke the wall of sound in 2010. She’s the next big thing. Like a hybrid between Madonna, Britney Spears and Pet Shop Boys. Fred produces most of her tracks still, and does a fracking good job!

8: Hi-Brid – Once Around The Golden Block Imagine if The Stranglers met Badly Drawn Boy, one summer day, hung out, and jammed along. This would be the result. Epic!

9: Aeroplane – We Can’t Fly All of a sudden Vito stood alone. The void and uncertainty of what would become of the debut album after Stephan Fasano left wasn’t cool. It turned out that he didn’t do all that much with the album in the first place. To me the album didn’t mark the milestone I had hoped, but We Can’t Fly as a single really took off. Instant summer hit!

10: Marius – Jet Set (Ray Mang Remix) Ray Mang is, after Todd Terje, one of my “never-fail-artists”. Less disco, more melody, still mellow and friendly like all his remixes, really. Awesome!

Happy New Year, campers! Hope the jump form good ol’ 2010 was delightful, full of love and joy. This New Year needs us all, all our hopes all our good wishes, all our smiles and all our gestures of forgiveness.

New tunage to suit the new year with style, panache and power? Sure!

The Dead Rose Music Company’s “Just A Bitter Love” really caught my ear on The Magician’s mixtape #6. Oozing of love and fueled by a deep groove that’s both mellow and melancholic at the same time, this is the perfect track to set out for the weekend!

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Kap10Kurt is probably one of the cheesiest monikers to grace the scene i recent time. His disco, hi nrg reworks are bliss. When Pet Shop Boys first released Suberbia back in 1985, was when I first opened my ears to their unique take on pop music. They have stuck with me ever since, although I feel that they peaked around 1987-88. But then again, most things did, didn’t they?

And last but definately not least: Drop Out Orchestra does it again again! This time THE SEX PISTOLS puts their dicks on the 8-track and gets served and whopping disco rework that has them strutting like sexy pimps in down town New York, circa 1979.

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