FRIDAY
We’re starting off the final Bloc Party week of 2007 with two of the best remixes made for A Weekend In The City. Burial’s second album is even better than his great first one, breaking dubstep out of its cold cage and opening up the genre to a world of soul and emotion. His mix of Bloc Party’s "Where Is Home" could sit easily on Untrue as one of the album’s more accessible tracks. In it, Burial zeroes in on the profound isolation and sadness buried beneath the fierce anger in the best protest song of 2007.
New Norwegian space-disco cadet Diskjokke introduces himself with an epic cure for Bloc Party’s woozy hangover love song. Diskjokke’s a disciple of Prins Thomas and M.A.N.D.Y, and a core of Oslo’s genre-birthing club night Sunkissed. At over ten minutes long, this is a completely original and largely instrumental composition, with great moments of 70s strobe light disco, Italo-house ecstasy, and Underworld trance house. Kele’s voice subtly pours down love at just the right moments.
Bloc Party - Where Is Home? (Burial mix)
Bloc Party - Sunday (DiskJokke remix)
