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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?
Video: Bloc Party, 'Talons'
From the archive
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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.
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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.
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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.
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now Epworth's got some time on his hands...
..can he reform Lomax? that would be ace.
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The video reminds me of Firestarter.
Except this ones in a car park...
?
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Whitey remix of Helicopter
was better, I feel.
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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?
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look at his arms though
he is so buff, has he always been so buff? look at his arms!!!
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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.
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He's
a better producer than remixer IMHO, so this is fine.
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^
.
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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
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Hungry Eppo
mixes are always worse than the original track. It's the law.
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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.
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i thought that at first
but now i cant get the chorus out of my fucking head
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:(
It's one of my personal favourites!
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I always liked the 'Retreat' one and the Wolf & Cub one also
strange to think that Banquet was mixed on a laptop.
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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.
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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. :(
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1989? lol
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lol
just simply 'DFA' should have sufficed. darnn
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his 'blood on our hands' remix was his only good one.
apart from that he was fucking awful.
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