These two prolific Brazilians are putting out remixes faster than I can post them, so in an attempt to keep up with The Twelves, here is a roundup of some that are new to me.

The two are is a remixes of rock songs – the Radiohead song Reckoner and White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes. The third is a remix of Sudden Rush by Erlend Oye. Hopefully Kings of Convenience will hear this plea and deliver us that Canadian tour we were promised a few months ago. The latest mixtape by The twelves can be downloaded from their myspace link.

Radiohead – Reckoner [The Twelves Remix]

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Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal [The Twelves Remix]

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Erlend Oye – Sudden Rush [The Twelves Remix]

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It’s not often I come across a minimal electronic album that takes me beyond good background music. The last one I remember was The Field album From Here We Go Sublime. Look for a review of the newer album, Yesterday and Today in the next week. I stumbled across Robot Science on their bandcamp site where you can download both of their albums (pay what you can) including the latest Doodads. The Constant and Cut & Paste were hard to pick out – the entire album is consistent and spectacular. The sounds jet from video game tones to fuzzy synths and keys in a purely organic way. I can safely say it’s the best electronic album I’ve heard in the first seven days of 2010.

Robot Science – The Constant

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Robot Science – Copy Paste

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Can’t say I ever wondered about the possible discomforts that may accompany being pure at heart, but this band from New York has made a career of it. I came across them when checking out what shows might be going on in London while I’m there. I’ll be in town on the December 17th if anyone has any suggestions, leave a comment or send me and email. So far I’ve learned that Diplo is playing fabric the day before and Bombay Bicycle Club the day after. Pains are playing a show at Scala on December 8th in London. I could talk more about this band but my flight leaves tomorrow and they have a great homogeneous 80’s melodic sound and that’s all you need to know for now.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Come Saturday

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When he’s not setting world records for performance lengths and challenging Andrew WK to piano battles, Gonzales has been known to take electronic songs and transpose them beautifully onto the piano. This recent rework of the Erol Alkan and Boys Noize track Waves is no exception. It takes the original digital experience and gives it the analog soul it deserves. Full disclosure: I like this piano version a lot better than the original song.

Gonzales – Waves [Erol Alkan & Boys Noize Remake] removed by request

Erol Alkan & Boys Noize – Waves removed by request

Chiddy Bang is making a lot of noise on the mixtape circuit with their newest tape The Swelly Express. This reboot of the Sufjan Stevens song Chicago is particularly indicative of the Philly hip hop group’s ability to produce more than just your typical hipster mashup. If this is the direction hip hop is moving in, we can all rest easily.

Chiddy Bang – All things go (w/ Sufjan Stevens)

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Not to be outdone by the myriad of other side projects his band mates have formed, the Julian Casablancas solo project has come upon us. Like the rest of the side projects, it’s pretty similar to The Strokes. But wait! This time there is a thinly veiled electronic twist. That being said, the pop sensibility that the 31 year old veteran of The Strokes has enthusiastically scattered throughout the album works well most of the time. Phrazes for the Young might be one of the last times Casablancas can get away with calling himself young so I’m sure he’ll make the most of it before we hear his trademark monotone voice again.

Julian Casablancas – Tourist

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Hopefully this new single from Montreal’s own Chromeo means that a new album is in the works. Their last album Fancy Footwork came out way back in 2007 and since then they’ve gotten so popular that their new single Night by Night is being sponsored by Pepsi. Click the link to go download the song from the Mountain Dew website green label sound.

Chromeo – Night by Night

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I didn’t get a chance to attend this year’s Osheaga festival in Montreal, but if I had I would have seen Miike Snow perform and probably wrote this post much earlier. Better late then never though, so I gave the album a listen.

The group consists of three Swedes, starting with vocalist/songwriter Andrew Wyatt along with production team Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg also known as Bloodshy & Avant. Bloodshy & Avant have a historically pop driven pedigree, having produced many songs for Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue and Jennifer Lopez. Most notably they won a 2005 Grammy award for the Britney Spears track Toxic under the category “Best Dance Recording”.

It’s obvious they had a lot of fun making the songs and the use of falsetto is ubiquitous throughout. Sometimes it can be over the top but the production is great and these two songs are my favourites.

Miike Snow – Animal

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Miike Snow – Silvia

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After her work on a Darwin Inspired Opera with the other half of The Knife, Karin Dreijer Andersson released a solo album last December under the name Fever Ray. Her vocals will be very familiar to anyone who gets down with The Knife. The instrumentals are comprised of atmospheric electronic beats that are as eerie as they are erratic and play in the same sandbox as The Knife. Fever Ray plays on Oct 1st at Metropolis for Pop Montreal festival and tickets are a whopping 30$ + fees!

Many Fever Ray songs have fully realized videos like this one and I expect the show to likely include some visual components as well. Costumes will likely be in effect.

Fever Ray – Triangle Walks (zshare)

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Fever Ray – Seven [CSS Remix] (zshare)

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Washed Out is a South Carolina project by Ernest Greene with a handful of relaxing and engaging songs like this one. Hoping to see a full release sometime soon.

Washed out – Feel It All Around (zshare)

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