Nuclear Beef

Electro Vs. Commodore 64 Audio Beef Today. The Cannibal Cooking Club meets Tomas Nordstrom at tear time.

'Tear Time' and 'Tear Time - Tomas Nordstrom C64 Remix' by Cannibal Cooking Club and Tomas Nordstrom from the 2004 Vinyl Single Rest In Pieces on Chan n Mikes Records

Here's a nice little slab of post-techno (see, Pitchfork fuckers, I can make up trend names too!) madness from German electro weirdos Cannibal Cooking Club and Swedish Bleep-meister Tomas Nordstrom. CCC (two guys from Germany) are somewhat 'traditional' electro musicians, but are clearly on the more experimental side of the electro world. It's music for DJs... mentally ill DJs. This track is not their most innovative, but in order for the remix to make sense, I had to post the original.

And oh yes, the remix. Tomas Nordstrom showcases his C64 tracking skills by turning in a SID remix which drastically improves upon the original. Frankly if I were CCC and I heard this remix, I would have gone back and added that thick ass bassline into my slightly monotonous electro track. Oh well, yet more proof that it's all about how you work it, not what equipment or software you use.

Tomas Nordstrom is a hard man to google, but he has an interesting release out on web-mp3-label Race Will Begin which released Nordstrom remixes of 'Slow' by Kylie Minogue and.. 'Milkshake' by Kelis. Yeah, I know, but this 'Milkshake' remix actually doesn't suck, in large part because he fuzzes the irritating vocal in and out of the mix. Nordstrom is also affiliated in some way with Don't Recordings which features an artist called EDIT who is not edIT aka Edward Ma but nonetheless has some pretty interesting tech-electro MP3s up here. For example this one, which I would probably play in a DJ set. I guess electronic dance music isn't dead.. yet!

(Of course, the website of Michael Forshaw's Label Chan-n-Mikes (linked above) is now off the net, which can't be a good thing, can it?)