Recently I embarked on a road trip where I drove about 10 hours (due to holiday traffic) to my destination and 8 hours back home (from 11pm – 7am) and while I was away I was on the road for about 3 hours per day for 3 days. So needless to say I got mad familiar with my MP3 player. It was then that I realized how essential your tunes are to keep you…well me, in this case, awake during these drives. With the Summer basically here and people taking road trips and such I’ve set out and brought you my top 10…ahem…top 15 essential tunes I had to have on the road and these are in no particular order (I tried but gave up essentially).
To start this I laid down some rules. No originals, the majority of the tracks below are remixes as you’ll see, but these were the jams I actually rocked as oppose to the originals. Tried to restrict myself to remixes that dropped between January of 2009 and June of 2009, so we have the freshest of the fresh here.
And yeaaaaaah I realized I cheated, but you know what, who cares, you win cus you get more songs to download. Feel I’m missing something, hit us with your input by leaving a comment below.
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1. Fred Falke Remixes
2. La Roux
3. Friendly Fires “Skeleton Boy” Grum Remix
4. Santigold
5. Au Revoir Simone “Shadows” The Teenagers Remix
6. Metric “Help I’m Alive” The Twelves Remix
7. Little Boots
8. Phoenix “Lisztomania” Classixx Remix
9. Sébastien Tellier “Kilometer” MOULiNEX Remix
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Zero” R.A.C. Remix
11. Minitel Rose “Continue” Russ Chimes Remix
12. N.A.S.A. ft. Lykke Li, Santigold, Kanye West “Gifted” Treasure Fingers Remix
13. Breakbot “Penelope Pitstop”
14. Yelle “Qui est Cette Fille” (Cover of Robyn’s “Who’s That Girl?”)
15. Nightwaves “Invincible” Snow Picnic Remix
One remix that I would’ve loved to have added to this list is Grandtheft’s remix of The Juan MacLeans’ “One Day”, but the track hasn’t officially dropped yet and I ain’t gonna be the one that leaks it. After all that camp has been great with Killahbeez. I will say though that I had this remix on repeat numerous times on my road trip, so be on the look out for it when it drops.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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