Do we even need to sell you on the following free remix, an eight-minute romp through the warped, piano-chased mind of the one-and-only Lee “Scratch” Perry?
Here’s what Gang Gang Dance multi-instrumentalist Brian DeGraw had to say about it if so: “I feel blessed—like ACTUALLY blessed—to have made some form of musical communion with LSP. I think about him a lot in day to day life but never really imagined our paths would cross in any other way. And I really have to give it up for anyone who gets handed a song about fear and turns it into a club banger about eating cops. Perfect.”
“I did have a great fun in the studio in Negril (Jamaica) recreating the riddim,” the man himself added in a press release. “The ingeneers and people around also enjoyed the vibes and the great voice of [frontwoman] Lizzi [Bougatsos]. All the blessings for the remix from LSP.”
True. You can grab both versions of “MindKilla” after the jump, along with a ton of tour dates and a video directed by Shoji Goto of the Boredoms…
Gang Gang Dance live:
7/8 Boston MA – Brighton Music Hall
7/9 Montreal QC – Il Motore
7/10 Toronto ON – Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
7/11 Cleveland OH – Grog Shop
7/12 Columbus OH – Outland Live
7/13 Louisville KY – Zanzabar
7/14 Bloomington IN – The Bishop
7/15 Chicago IL – Empty Bottle
7/16 Chicago IL – Pitchfork Music Festival
7/17 Pittsburgh PA – Brillobox
7/18 Washington DC – Rock and Roll Hotel
7/19 Baltimore MD – Ottobar
7/20 Philadelphia PA – Johnny Brendas
7/21 New York NY – Rocks Off Concert Cruise
9/23 Cincinnati OH – Midpoint Music Festival
9/24 Champaign-Urbana IL – Pygmalion Music Festival
9/28 Dallas TX – Club Dada
9/30 Mexico City MX – Teatro Fru Fru
10/1 Houston TX – Fitzgeralds
10/3 Austin TX – The Mohawk
10/5 Phoenix AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
10/7 San Diego CA – Casbah
10/8 Pioneertown CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
10/9 Los Angeles CA – Culture Collide Festival
10/10 Big Sur CA – Henry Miller Memorial Library
10/11 San Francisco CA – The Independent
10/13 Portland, OR – Holocene
10/14 Seattle, WA – Neumos
10/15 Vancouver, BC – Biltmore
10/18 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
10/19 Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre
10/21 Morganstown, WV – 123 Pleasant St