Vice Records - MP3 Blog

It's about time someone said what we all were thinking. "The thing that's got it all fucked up now is camera phones - how the hell am I supposed to be able to do a line in front of complete strangers when they've all got cameras?" Amen brother. We've been saying that for months now. Mike Skinner gives all sorts of advice on what to do and what not to do when you become a ubiquitous star on The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living, out stateside on April 25. Check out lead single "When You Wasn't Famous," now legally available for your listening and learning pleasure. And seriously, when Mike's manager says "Stop fucking pop stars Michael...there are industry repercussions," heed his warning. You don't want to find yourself on the blackened end of a crack-smoking whodunnit.

Download The Streets - When You Wasn't Famous.mp3 (no longer available)

Remember the days of cassettes and tape decks? Those clunky old peices of plastic that often ended up on road sides stretching for miles and blowing stories high in the urban wind cyclones. Chromeo is bringing that back. This is a very limited edition cassette with every remix ever done for Chromeo from the "She's In Control" album. We have 50 limited edition Chromeo cassettes signed by the Dave 1 and P-Thugg. Want one? Just email us your adderss here and your name maybe selected as one of the winners of this amazing remix novelety cassette. In case you dont win, you can download the tracks in a zip file.

Here's a track by track blow by blow written by Chromeo:

SIDE A
1. Me & My Man Whitey Remix
Everyone's favorite. Nuff said.

2. Needy Girl Bloc Party Remix
Russell finessed this one. You got the Blue Monday drums, a gritty bassline, and it's all topped off by a feel-good chord change at the end. We still owe those guys a remix.

3. You're So Gangsta Playgroup Remix
This one is special. Our first ever remix, courtesy of England's Larry David: Trevor Jackson. The music sounds like slowed down hip house, mixed with Gwen Guthrie's "Nothing Going On But The Rent". Bonanas. The vocal you hear is the full lyrics that were initially recorded, before we decided to just keep one line when the album came out two years later. We threw this one on in Turkey a couple of months ago and the crowd still went nuts.

4. Rage! Stretch Armstrong Remix
Ayo Stretch, what happened to Queensbridge? What's up with Tragedy Khadafi? Where's CNN, dunny? Is that really a fauxhawk?

SIDE B
1. Me & My Man Juan McLean Remix
The drum sounds on this are crazy. We can imagine cool people dancing to this, something which we've never seen because we stay at home listening to Gerard Levert "Casanova" all day.

2. Needy Girl Paper Faces Remix
Our manager Gil is responible for this one. He put it out on a single in the UK and it probably sold more over there than our album. And while we're on the topic of Paper Faces, let's give it up to the Rythmes Digitales album for starting this whole 80s shit.

3. Destination: Overdrive DFA Remix
Not exactly what we were expecting from those guys. Then we saw hundreds of chavs transing out to this when Optimo was playing it at V Festival, and we were like "ok, we get it".

4. Rage! Riton Remix
Intense!

Download the mixtape (.zip)