Cougar Microbes are marching in like army ants…

Schaatz‘s purported backstory is so far-fetched that it deserves to be posted in full here:

“We are a french duo based in Paris, they grew up in a german hippie community in Grasse on French Riviera where they lived many love stories with several german naturist ladies, sadly the ladies left France when they had to get back on Germany to study something serious. Convinced than love is something serious to study, Mat and Tonio of Schaatz have lived for many years alone in the mountains of Alps and founded Schaatz“.

We have not yet decided if we are going to take the above statement at face value but what we do know is that, whether they are producing their own mixes or remixing other, we like Schaatz.

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We previously featured RAC (Remix Artist Collective) meddling with Cougar favourites Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros to great effect. It is always a pleasure to hear them re-craft my favourite indie hits and it’s cool that they have taken on Tokyo Police Club (for the 6th time!!), given that we featuted them the other day.

This time it is for a worthy cause; by donating to the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) through the band’s website you will get a download the video, and receive both the RAC and DOM remixes of “Wait Up (Boots of Danger).” Once again 100% of each sale will be donated to the ASPCA®.

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Our friends over at Friedmylittlebrain already posted this a while back but this Busta Rhymes remix from France’s Wrong Man is sweet as fuck. The fact that “Woo Hah!”, with its crazy video, was the track that got me into Busta to begin with helps and this version sure packs some extra punch.

TRACKS:

Busta Rhymes – Woo hah! (Wrong Man Remix)

Hands Up Who Cares , our monthly club night, is back next friday (21st of May) at The Library in Islington.

We’ll be spinning tunes by Crystal Castles, TV on the Radio, WHY?, Foals, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Two Door Cinema Club, The XX and loads more Cougar favourites.

Entry is free to everybody registered as ‘attending’ on the Facebook event page and £1 to all others.  Hope to see you there!

For more details please drop by here.

TRACKS:

Nas and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley - As We Enter (Tinie Tempah Remix)

Bloc Party -Hunting For Witches (RAC Mix)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)

Yeasayer – Ambling Alp

Edward Sharpe & Magnetic Zeros have received loads love here at Cougar HQ since I caught them live in London. The band has been on the road for what seems like forever and you’d be hard pressed to find a harder working band.

Almost a year to the date I first heard the track, ESMZ‘s released a distinctly vintage feeling video for the amazing ‘Home‘. With the hot weather hopefully approaching again there is no reason for it not to become the anthem for this summer too.

TRACKS

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Om Nashi Me (Timmy The Terror Mix)

Whilst the leaders of the major political parties try to romance each other into some sort of deal in the next few of days it seems the real losers in this general election have been the Great British public.

To combat your disillusionment Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip have timed the release of new single ‘Great Britain’ to perfection.

TRACKS:

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Great Britain (Hyetal Remix)

To follow up on the Fenech-Soler track posted earlier week here is a sweet remix of the single ‘Stop And Stare’by italian crew Reset!

Boom!

TRACKS:

Fenech-Soler – Stop And Stare (Reset Remix)

The Jay-Z remix by Wallpaper. I posted yesterday got me fishing for all the ‘99 Problems‘ mashups in my collection. I thought his photo of my friend’s dad gloriously rocking the 80′s look at Dinseyworld was a perfect companion for this post:

“I got 99 problems…. but a bitch ain’t one“

TRACKS:

DJ Danger Mouse – 99 Problems from The Grey Album by Danger Mouse

Get your hands on Jaydiohead here

Jay-Z Vs. Oasis was created by Cooking Soul

Listen to JZ/DC here