DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Flagrant Fowl’s OSCILLATIONS Mix

With self-titled‘s latest OSCILLATIONS party just a week away, we roped in one of the night’s resident DJs–Skooby Laposky, a.k.a Pocketknife of Flagrant Fowl infamy–for a special mix that offers insights into the influences of his label and hotly-tipped edits/productions with Cousin Cole. (See also: Michna‘s rad-as-hell Seeing Colors mix.)

While we definitely dug hearing such s/t favorites as Arthur Russell, Telepathe and Suicide, the real treat here is a number of exclusives, including Flagrant Fowl’s first artist signings and edits of This Heat, Will Oldham and Mi Ami that’ll likely end up on the sequels to Tambourine Dream and Canyon Dancing. Oh, yeah–Skooby also shared such priceless lines as “You can play this jam at a pagan homecoming dance or maybe even a wizard’s retirement party” in his track-by-track commentary. Like what you hear? Be sure to arrive at Studio B between 8 and 9 for Flagrant Fowl’s opening set and 2-for-1 drinks. (They’ll also be spinning in between each band and at the end of the night.

Tracklist:
Botox “Tragedy Symphony”
Suicide “Ghost Rider (Pocketknife’s Torn Bowery Blazer Remix)”
Telepathe “Sinister Militia (TMJ!!! Mix)”
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice “I Am the One and He Is the Caretaker of My Heart (Pocketknife Remix)”*
Bostro Pesopeo “Falls (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)”
Youth “Dark Moons”*
RCMP “Ibiza PA (Cousin Cole Remix)”
Lil Tony “Treehouse (Lil Tony Rework)”
Kanye West “Love Lockdown (Cousin Cole Remix)”
Lykke Li “Breaking It Up (Pocketknife’s Loosefoot Remix)”
Neil Young “My My Hey Hey (Cousin Cole’s Into the Blue Remix)”
Will Oldham “The Same Love That Makes Me Laugh (Cousin Cole Remix) Demo”*
Mock & Toof “Brown Bred”
Mi Ami “Version (Pocketknife Edit)”*
Black Cock “Get Ready (Three Card Monte’s Slight Refondle)”
Real Ones “Outlaw (Prins Thomas Desert Discomiks)”
In Flagranti “Scala Disco”
Three Card Monte “Molotov”
This Heat “Sleep (Pocketknife’s Out Cold Remix)”
* = exclusive track

And Skooby’s thoughts on every selection…

Bot’ Ox, “Tragedy Symphony”
The production from this dynamic duo (Cosmo Vitelli and Julien Biffraz) is topnotch. I love the long siren synth-n-blips intro that builds up into some serious slo-mo heat. I guess being Parisian helps when you’re singing lyrics like this–I would just sound like a contrived dirtbag, but these dudes nail it perfectly. Mais oui!

Suicide, “Ghost Rider (Pocketknife’s Torn Bowery Blazer Remix)”
This remix is from the second EP (2007’s Tougher Than Featherz) that Cole and I put out a few years back. I love how direct Suicide was. I remember Alan Vega saying in an interview that he and Martin Rev were just making blues when someone told him they were “avant-garde.” We actually found some deadstock of this EP in the Flagrant archives so the usual spots are carrying this again for those who missed it the first time around.

Telepathe, “Sinister Militia (TMJ!!! Mix)”
I gotta rep for Brooklyn a bit. It seems like dudeskis are always the ones that get to bang on shit and make “smart art” music, but these girls are flipping that. The band is coming from a lot of musical angles and that combo is making some nice pop shapes.

Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, “I Am the One and He Is the Caretaker of My Heart (Pocketknife Remix)”
This remix will be out on the Canyon Dancing 2: Plateau Party EP. I love me some weird beard tunes and I take great delight in reworking songs like this one. You can play this jam at a pagan homecoming dance or maybe even a wizard’s retirement party.

Bostro Pesopeo, “Falls (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)”
I love a good remix that involves two artists/groups that I dig. It’s like killing two birds with one stone since I get to blab about one artist reworking the other in the same sentence. Cole turned me onto Bostro’s tunes and it was cool to see H&LA remixing one of his tracks with some old school acid lines and house drums.

Youth, “Dark Moons”
Youth is a dude out of Brisbane, Australia, that’s been making some down under disco tracks with great production ability. Cole got in touch with him after hearing some of his remixes and he sent along some originals that we’re going to release later this year.

RCMP, “Ibiza PA (Cousin Cole Remix)”
Cousin hooked up this remix for RCMP who are a new italo disco duo (comprised of DJ Apt One of the Philadelphyinz and Relative Q outta Pittsburgh). Their EP is coming out on Flamin’ Hotz Records in the next month or so. Be sure to check out the mustachioed tunes!

Arthur Russell, “Treehouse (Lil Tony Rework)”
This is one of three recent “interpretations” of classic Arthur tracks that just came out on the Electric Minds label. I was going to put one of the others on the mix, but Cole had me listen to this one again and I understood why he liked Lil Tony’s the most. It’s minimal, but it’s got a driving emotional quality to it.

Kanye West, “Love Lockdown (Cousin Cole Remix)”
Kanye surprised everyone last year with 808s! He continues to be an interesting pop figure and I do check his blog on the regular (at least the Internet is infinite enough to keep up with his ego!). It was great that ‘Ye made the stems accessible for fiddling around with; Cole did a great job flipping the entire feeling of the song into a disco burner. This remix is out on our current EP.

Lykke Li, “Breaking It Up (Pocketknife’s Loosefoot Remix)”
This remix is on the flipside of our latest EP. It was commissioned by Lykke Li’s label, but they didn’t want to release it, so we went the white label route. I’m glad to see it getting some shine in other people’s playlists. I think this is one of my favourite remixes that I’ve worked on. The children’s choir makes it almost impossible not to sing along with.

Neil Young “My My Hey Hey (Cousin Cole’s Into the Blue Remix)”
A Tambourine Dream highlight for me! Our honorary third Flagrant member, C-Bassix, played some thick upright bass on this track (and my Lykke Li remix as well). I recently was chatting with Pilooski and he said that this version “sends him up to the clouds.” Nice one, Cole!

Will Oldham, “The Same Love That Makes Me Laugh (Cousin Cole Remix) Demo”
A new remix from CC that will be on Tambourine Dream 2. Cole and I are both fans of Will Oldham and his various guises. He may make a double appearance on TD2 since I’ve got a Bonnie Prince Billy remix that’s almost done.

Mock & Toof, “Brown Bred”
The Death From Abroad family is solid. Mock & Toof are making some great records and I particularly like the light acid lines, swoosh synths, and live drums in this track. I’m definitely going to be following these Londoners’ releases.

Mi Ami, “Version (Pocketknife Edit)”
Another Canyon Dancing 2 alert! When I first heard Mi Ami, it was another one of their songs and I immediately checked out their catalogue to see if there was potential for a rework. The combination of instruments in the band is pretty straightforward (drums, bass, guitar), but these dudes make some great things happen.

Black Cock, “Get Ready (Three Card Monte’s Slight Refondle)”
A classic Black Cock edit that was given a slight reworking by one of our new artists. This edit has got a dark hypnotic quality to it and was a great track to segue from the new school dub freakout of Mi Ami back into disco territory. There’s a reason why the BC edits are so famous–they’re good!

Real Ones, “Outlaw (Prins Thomas Desert Discomiks)”
I don’t know much about this band except that they’re Norwegian, but it doesn’t really matter because Prins Thomas’ “miks” is a dark burner. He pares down most of the elements from the original and rides the kick/snare combo with a dark synth line to great effect.

In Flagranti, “Scala Disco”
This edit has got to be one of my new favourites to play out. I like to call these kind of jams “stompers” since they’ve got blues guitars, slinky bass and a steady drum stomp. You can’t go wrong with Bohannon as your source material!

Three Card Monte, “Molotov”
Another stomper! TCM contacted us awhile back to check out his edits and we were feeling his work, so we’re gonna put out an EP of his material. The Flagrant Fowl family grows!

This Heat, “Sleep (Pocketknife’s Out Cold Remix) Demo”
Another track that will most likely be on Canyon Dancing 2. I gave this seminal band  a little extra bump for the club and it’s a good weirdo art rock lullaby to end the night with.