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Memory Tapes reworks one of the best/most ubiquitous songs of last year, and the results are predictably great. Word on the street is that this will appear on an upcoming purple vinyl single with another "1901" remix from Animal Collective. Download it from We're Tapes...

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Phoenix keep the free "remixes" coming: here, The Soft Pack (formerly the the Muslims) turns "Fences" into one of their signature Strokes-esque detached garage jams. The band says:"Phoenix are these cool French guys. We recorded our version of "Fences" with Rob Barbato of Darker My Love...

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Possibly the best of the countless Phoenix remixes to emerge this year, and definitely the best thing Devendra has done in a while. Dev says:"We LOVE and have LOVED Phoenix since Alphabetical, and have wanted to do more than just ogle at their awesomeness for quite some time...

Yet another worthy addition for Phoenix remix completists: a spacey rendition of the group's summer hit "Lisztomania," by Phoenix-approved Canadians the Tremulance (also check their remix of the other most remixed song of all time, "Walking on a Dream"): mp3: Phoenix is apparently encouraging this sort of thing (for 24 hours, anyway); download the "Lisztomania" multi-

The most remixed band of 2009 is back with another worthy reworking of "Lisztomania" by Holy Ghost!, taken from the upcoming Lisztomania remixes EP (which also features the great Classixx version). Via discoattack, who always seems to get this kind of thing first without fail: mp3:Phoenix :: Lisztomania (Holy Ghost! loves Paris remixomania) *********** elsewhere: Our weekly Sirius XM Blo

Phoenix's Best New Music'ed early contender for pop song of the year was remixed by L.A.'s Classixx for the upcoming Kitsune Maison 7 compilation. It rules. Get it here (link removed by request). Kitsune Maison 7 is due out at the "end of May 2009...

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