I'm Baaaaaack
Justice - Waters of Nazareth (Erol Alkan's Dur Dur Durrr re-edit)
So, surfing is awesome. Awesome.
Besides a tan and the ability to get up on the board, another thing I am taking away from my vacation is that when you're going to spend a week in a tropical area, in and out of the water the whole time, you have to make sure your ears are clean, or you will get an ear infection. I haven't had one of those since I was like nine years old!
Anyway, I'm on the upswing, and as such, have been listening to music again - I couldn't really take listening to anything for a few days - and one of the many emails I read when I got back was from our friends at Vice Records, announcing their official release of the Justice Waters of Nazareth EP, which contains the three original songs from the original Ed Banger release, as well as the remixes. Since I was out of the country for a week, I won't be surprised if I get some comments on this saying "but (some other blog) already posted this" - but I don't care! Justice is on a conquest and I am riding right along with them.
This remix is by wunderkind and Trash (London) superstar, Erol Alkan - as his talent for remixes often goes (see his reworks of Death From Above 1979, Franz Ferdinand, Alter Ego, and Hot Chip), he takes the best parts of the song and cranks the awesome-knob up to eleven. In this particular case, that means making the song, undeniably a vicious, heavy-metal-techno stormer, all the more ferocious and chunky. It literally sounds like it will break the speakers on whatever device you listen to it... I highly suggest you not play it on your crappy laptop speakers, but on the biggest soundsystem you can find, because the low end is simply amazing, and the tweakery that Alkan does to the track will freak you out when its up L O U D.
When Erol DJed at my friend Josh's party last month here in NYC, he dropped this mix and the entire place went haywire. Like, out of our minds crazy. It was perfect. Actually it looked kind of like this video - taken from the CD release party in (I assume) Paris - only in the video, it is the whole damn Ed Banger crew, plus Surkin from Institubes, and DJ Funk dropping some ghetto-tech flavor in the mix. Damn, I wish I could have been there.
Anywho, buy the CD on Amazon or Insound, or dig the Ed Banger vinyl at Forced Exposure. Do it.
Rock and Roll!