jacques lu cont: can do no wrong....defend/refute

Really looking forward to the new Killers album give this news, and also interested to hear he's behind the new Keane album as I thought their first track off that was really rather good

hes also done the frankmusik album and some of the tracks from the innerpartysystem album

+ 2 new remixes...
Coldplay - Viva La Vida (Thin White Duke Remix)
Frankmusik - 3 Little Words (Paper Faces Remix)

anyone heard these yet?

So what do folks think about "Human"? I completely dismissed it upon initial listen. But this thread has made me listen again a few times and I'm starting to think it may actually capture that Killers+Lu Cont magic.

I don't know about wrong, but those Killers and Keane albums were not terribly right. Methinks Madonna spoiled the guy (both figuratively and literally), but hopefully the guy has spent all his money on equipment, not drugs, and plans to come back swinging. I mean, that "Wrong" remix is OK, but he can do better.

He hasn't done anything particularly good since Confessions on a Dancefloor, although maybe the great Coldplay mix was after that. He had a longer and more prolific purple patch than most though.

great OP

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I passed this same building just today! <3

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coldplay mix def came out after the madonna record. nothing since has even come near the quality, 'cept maybe the 'D.A.N.C.E.' remix.

golden period mixtape:

'from: disco to: disco' rmx
'hey you what's that sound'
'jacques your body'
'silver screen shower scene' rmx
'miss you' rmx
'payback time' rmx
'danger! high voltage' rmx
'the conductor' rmx
'man with guitar'
'four to the floor' rmx
'just let go' rmx
'what you waiting for?' rmx
'mr. brightside' rmx
'avalon' rmx
'hung up'
'talk' rmx

challop: i always preferred the other mixes of that royksopp track

xp hott mix, he truly has so much good stuff, i may have said this before but a single disc of his greatest remixes might be the best comp of the decade

still haven't heard new zoot woman. is he still with them?

i thought he was them

it was him and two other dudes when they started.. now i think there's a 4th member?

Finally he's back, the remix for Friendly Fires is remarkable.

The Kevorkian Dub mix of Talk narrowly beats the JLC mix for me. Don't know waht it is about that song, pretty mediocre in it's original form but turns into gold when somebody else gets hold of it.

In some sense, isn't the Coldplay "original" something of a remix itself?

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bcz of kraftwerk i guess

thats not a remix

in a sense we are all remixes. in a very real sense god is like a remix.

god is the master tape. we are all 128kbps mp3 copies of that master tape, posted on blogs

With viruses.

challop: i always preferred the other mixes of that royksopp track

That's not really a challop - the Trentemoller remix of Royksopp knocks almost everything JLC has done into a cocked hat.

no way, that's not even trentemoller's best remix.

jlc felix remix is above and beyond most everything...

haitch's otherwise a+ golden period mixtape is missing his mix of missy & ciara's 'lose control' which may well be my actual favourite

what's the best trentemøller rmx if not 'what else is there?' ronan?

unai-oh you and i (trentemoller mix) is my favourite...can't find it on youtube or spotify...

http://open.spotify.com/track/4bhV7lK7p24eAb7TFArcM9

actually there it is, mixed with what sounds like extrawelt on the way in and something else on the way out

helped by the fact the original is also better, actually kind of a blueprint for the royksopp one imo

Trentemoeller's Robyn mix is also pretty good. I hear he's got a mix of Seven Nation Army that makes motherfuckers' headz cave in and shit.

also to return to the subject at hand, JLC's mix of the Friendly Fires' "Cool in the Pool" is being hailed as some sort of return but I ain't buying it. the best thing he's produced since that Coldplay mix is easily Frankmusik's "3 Little Words".

love 'Jump In The Pool' but hoping he's slowed it down a bit while empthasising the euphoric chord patterns and the lush synth voices more. it's a v obvious choice of track for him to do his typical thing tho.

Haha it sounds almost exactly like that, lush and warm and euphoric and slowbuilding. He does something very nice with carnival drums at the end, looping them throughout. It's a really good track.

Thanks to James for pointing out its existence, I didn't know about it.

He keeps all the best bits of the song in and kind of puts them in different places, the enormous swell with the "keep breathing, keep searching, keep holding on" bit and the big drum smashes is all present and correct but just made bigger.

JLC produced Frankmusik? I had no idea.

friendly fires seems to inspire really great remixes.

my favourite jlc remix is of britney's "breathe on me"! so good. (was also gonna rep for his mix of new order's jetstream but then realized the one i was thinking of was by richard x. whoops.)

I think he produced Frankmusik's entire last EP, but I'm certain he at least produced "3 Little Words".

yes, "breathe on me" is awesome

bit disappointed with the FF remix in the end but maybe just because i really do like the original

Have to say that the Frankmusik album is just glorious (a couple of duds) and sounds almost entirely like a new LRD album.

His Sneaky Sound System remix is glorious.

paper faces remix of fdh isn't up to much

the first two tracks off the FM album sound like LRD, the rest gets weaker as it goes on which is a shame. I wonder what happened between the EPs and the album?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jul/15/robbie-williams-rejoins-take-that1

They secretly wrote and recorded six songs that became the foundation for the forthcoming album, produced by Stuart Price.

I'm sure this will be up to the consistently high standard we've all come to expect from Stuart Price since Confessions on a Dancefloor.

For many, Take That were the original template for boyband success.

This isn't the first place I've seen that claim, and maybe it's just a Britisher-centric observation, but New Edition and New Kids on the Block both came before them and were pretty successful the world over iirc.

mm. well in fact original manager NM Smith based TT on NKOTB in the first place. the original advert for band members actually said 'dancers wanted for Britain's answer to New Kids..' or words to that effect.

op here
still love this tonight... only 4 bars of every song = perfection.
and no one does the start-to-finish strings remixes (felix, even starsailor)

give me new jlc!
or alternatively, what went wrong? besides becoming a proper producer