White Hinterland Remix Reviews, Mountain Dew and Miscellany

May 3rd, 2010

Hello homies!

Got a truly wonderful response to my White Hinterland remix – I’m thrilled everyone came along for the ride!

A few things to report before I recap:

1) As many of you know, I’ve been co-producing the latest record for Project Jenny, Project Jan. We are so close to wrapping it up, I can taste it! Final mixes are complete, now in the middle of the mastering process. I seriously can’t wait!

2) Pleased to announce I’m working on MY next record – going to be a collaborative effort, working with a host of awesome special guests. Been sketching out ideas pretty regularly, very pumped to be working on my own stuff again. Lord knows where it’ll all end up, but it’s going to be awesome, I can tell you that…

3) Also been working a lot these days with my new friends, The Kickdrums. Doing some Postal-Service style email exchanges, trading ideas back and forth. Really fun stuff.

4) And lastly, my song “The Hustle” randomly wound up in yet ANOTHER extreme sports video. This time for some sort of Mountain Dew snowboarding event… Check it:

Moving right along, the White Hinterland remix picked up all sorts of steam over the past few weeks! Made it into Elbo.ws Hot Tracks after a nice thumbs up from WH’s record label, Dead Oceans.

Here’s the blog breakdown – thanks a bazillion to everyone that was kind enough to listen and write:

The Independent
Prefix Magazine “warm, lounge-ish electro-pop”
The Portland Mercury
Consequence of Sound
YK2 Daily
Better Propaganda
Killah Beez
The Music Slut
Killah Beez
Day ‘n Night Blog “I don’t have to tell anyone how good Alan Wilkis and Memory Tapes are.”
MBV Music
Arjan Writes “Alan Wilkis knows how to turn obscure indie gems into wildly unique pieces of atmospheric pop and electronica”
Boom Boom Chik “It sounds fantastic… Light one up to this”
Hypetrak “Restructured into a thumping, electro-pop tune. Very clean execution of the remix”
Cause Equals Time
The Fast Life “Wilkis drops his latest airy goody inside your speaker to conjure colorful flowering meadows into your livingroom… A pure and relaxed hymn for spring… Chilled, soulful music”
Plug In Music
Hot Biscuits
Mahogany Blog “There’s no doubt White Hinterland are chuffed”
Daily Beatz “A funky quasi-psychedelic remix… I would say he hit it out of the park”
Atari Cool Kids
Ickmusic “Wilkis is no slouch in the remix chair… Spinning it on its end with a musical drumbeat and his signature sense of funk”
Music Like Dirt “He’s become something of a hype machine fuelled phenomenon… A beautifully subtle reworking of White Hinterland”
Too Much Happiness “I like the original. It’s whip cream. But this Alan Wilkis’ remix is what I like to call a sure thing”
Short and Sweet NYC
Head Underwater
Too Many Sebastians “A rather lovely remix”
What to Wear During an Orange Alert
Super Official “Another solid remix from Alan Wilkis… transforms it into something head nodding and atmospheric.”
Music for Perfect People
Parasites and Sycophants
This Music Wins
No Modest Bear
Durrty Rice “Man, AW, this dude continues to impress with his ability to put his touch on a song… I honestly haven’t heard a horrible remix by Wilkis”
Indie Here
Subservient Experiment
Blastercase “a nice, ethereal remix… the perfect track to help you shake off that winter dust, and get ready for the nice warm weather to come”
The World in a Paper Cup “Wilkis is one of the most consistent artists out there. Perhaps it’s his ear for a beat or his ability to tweak and twist just right; whatever it is I always get a grin on my face when he drops me a tune”
Ears of the Beholder “a great remix from the talented re-thinker of songs”
The Weekly Feed
Their Bated Breath
Dumb Bass
Music is My Sunshine
Cater ATL
Above Second
Together in Digital Dreams
Sonic Dissonance
Gis Gis Gis
JP’s Blog
Radio Deconstruction
Tea n Muffin
Stay True
Pop That Rocks
Street Index
Everyday King
Cities of the Plain
Yvynyl
Joey Plays

Well, that about does it… Phewf :)

See you soon!

-A

Entry Filed under: May 2010, Press, Radio, Remix, Video