Pocketknife makes me happy.
It’s difficult to find interesting and enjoyable reworkings of rock/indie songs. I usually find the likes of Yo La Tengo being remixed with siren-bass-pounding raver techno. That just sounds like shit. Pocketknife seems to have captured the poignancy of these songs while adding an extra emotional tug.
Pocketknife currently resides in Brooklyn where he can be seen DJ’in alongside Cousin Cole. Together they created “Flagrant Fowl” and recently dropped their second EP which is absolutely fucking amazing.
BIO from Myspace:
“Une brève histoire: Pocketknife caught the DJing bug as a teenager in Iowa when he befriended DJ Wolf (original 70s disco/deep house jock who rocked it with Lil’ Louis in Chi) and then honed his craft with Theo Parrish (Sound Signature) while the two were in art school together. Production was inevitable, as Pocketknife started to make tracks while attending grad school in Detroit. Now based in Brooklyn, “Mr. Hockney Peacockney” throws down with Cousin Cole as Flagrant Fowl dropping classic jams as well as their own unique remixes.”
MP3: White Magic – The Gypsies Came Marching After (Pocketknife’s Silk, Wool, and Rust Remix)
MP3: Feist – Gatekeeper (Pocketknife’s Faded Beach Towel Remix)
If you wanted to buy the remix of that sufjan song playing on hype machine how would you do it? can’t find it…
Oh, I’m sorry! Cousin Cole requested we take it down, so if you want to buy it you have to buy the upcoming Tambourine Dream album.. It’ll be so super awesome! When it comes out we’ll post the information on it.
what an absurd choice of song – gatekeeper – for the use of whatever software this guy uses
kills off all the fantasy with a lame pedestrian alienating “beat”.
SOME SONGS DON’T HAVE TO MARCH LIKE PUPPETS
hey, here’s an idea, use that software on chet baker, it’ll be cool-
let’s make everything sound the same… hip!