La Roux – I’m Not Your Toy – Remixes

On my recent trip to Ibiza, the bastards in the next hotel room had the La Roux album on repeat, constantly.  That’s not true, I could have easily dealt with that, they actually just had Bulletproof and In For the Kill on repeat.  Don’t get me wrong, good tunes still, but not on repeat for a week.  And as good as the album versions are, the remixes kill them.

This was written on a drawer in the hotel

Theres something about La Roux tunes that really brings the best out of producers remixing it.  As much as I now hate Skream’s remix of In For The Kill, it was fucking massive, Foamo and Zinc both smashed Bulletproof and now there’s been plenty of activity around the new single, I’m Not Your Toy.

French electro badman DatA has rinsed the strings as well as the gallic favourite crushed up synths to produce his remix which is pretty good, but comes third in my rundown of the top three remixes I’ve heard.  Whenever I think of DatA I think of Aerius Light, a tune that was in my head for at least 18 months but for some reason I never played it.

Bassmonsters Jack Beats have consistently churned out huge remix after huge remix.  The thing is, I always get pissed off when retards on YouTube can’t tell the difference between Jack Beats and dubstep.  Maybe I’m assuming too much of YouTubetards.  Anyway, I love Jack Beats for their surging crescendos and this one is jam packed with em

Number one in my crappy little rundown are R1 Ryders, a group of West London based producers who have so far (as far as I know) only released the one tune, Rubberband, but let me tell you it’s one of my favourite 12s this year.  Listen to this and tell me what the hell it sounds like to you, cos to me it sounds like some kind of new brand of genius.

CANNOT WAIT to get my hands on a full version of that.

PEOPLE WHO ONLY PLAY TWO SONGS OFF AN ALBUM – for the love of god burn yourself a cd with loads of other songs on it you also like.  PLEASE.