“We are proud to present Pocketknife. Earlier this year this disco star did a brilliant remix of the This Is Head track “0007” and now he has picked and mixed together his blend of favorites from the Adrian Recordings catalogue 2010.

Pocketknife was previously partner with Theo Parrish and now he throws down his own disco jams as well as own unique remixes. Exploding in blogs with remixes from such different stars as Arthur Russell, Liars, Lykke Li, Sufjan Stevens, Joanna Newsom, Nico, Yeasayer and Alicia Keys. And our own favorite recreation of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m on Fire”. In 2011 we’re looking forward to his upcoming release on label !K7.”

Adrian Recordings – Advent Sunday Mixtape #3: Pocketknife (direct link)

Tracklist after the jump.

1. Norra Kust – The Big Love (Original by MF/MB/)
2. This Is Head – 0011 (Adam Lundberg Remix)
3. Boeoes Kaelstigen – Tanumshede
4. This Is Head – 0007 (Pocketknife Remix)
5. Dmitry Fyodorov – Thinking of Space (Mikkel Metal Remix)
6. MF/MB/ – Heat Like This
7. This Is Head – 0011 (Kasper Bjørke Version)
8. Familjen – Det var jag (Blende Remix)
9. Boeoes Kaelstigen – Lou (Nautiluss Remix)
10. Boeoes Kaelstigen – Euratom
11. Andreas Tilliander – Stay King (feat. King Solo)

Another sunday post and more excellent mixes from the Flagrant Fowl camp AKA Pocketknife and Cousin Cole. Here’s the lodown:

“The good folks over at Self-Titled Magazine invited Cousin Cole and I to DJ at their next Oscillations party which happens to be next Thursday over at Studio B. They wanted to showcase some of our upcoming releases too, so I put together a mix of old and new Flagrant Fowl tracks with some current non-Flagrant jams that weaves it all together like a Cosby sweater. We’re excited for you to hear our new remixes, plus recent additons to the Flagrant Fowl family, Youth and Three Card Monte. Check it out!”

Pocketknife – Self Titled Magazine Mix (direct link)

BONUS: The other half of Flagrant Fowl, Cousin Cole, did a mix for Ministry Of Sound.

Cousin Cole – Live Ministry Of Sound Mix (direct link)

Tracklists after the jump.

Pocketknife – Self Titled Magazine mix:

Botox “Tragedy Symphony”
Suicide “Ghost Rider (Pocketknife’s Torn Bowery Blazer Remix)”
Telepathe “Sinister Militia (TMJ!!! Mix)”
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice “I Am the One and He Is the Caretaker of My Heart (Pocketknife Remix)”
Bostro Pesopeo “Falls (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)”
Youth “Dark Moons”
RCMP “Ibiza PA (Cousin Cole Remix)”
Lil Tony “Treehouse (Lil Tony Rework)”
Kanye West “Love Lockdown (Cousin Cole Remix)”
Lykke Li “Breaking It Up (Pocketknife’s Loosefoot Remix)”
Neil Young “My My Hey Hey (Cousin Cole’s Into the Blue Remix)”
Will Oldham “The Same Love That Makes Me Laugh (Cousin Cole Remix) Demo”
Mock & Toof “Brown Bred”
Mi Ami “Version (Pocketknife Edit)”
Black Cock “Get Ready (Three Card Monte’s Slight Refondle)”
Real Ones “Outlaw (Prins Thomas Desert Discomiks)”
In Flagranti “Scala Disco”
Three Card Monte “Molotov”
This Heat “Sleep (Pocketknife’s Out Cold Remix)”

Cousin Cole – Ministry Of Sound mix:

Bruce Springsteen – I’m On Fire (Cousin Cole Remix)
Tom of Finland – Holy Roller Edit
Map of Africa – Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys
T. Rex – Planet Queen (Pocketknife’s Taken Away Remix)
Vastkustska Ryggdunkarsallskapet – Town Out of Order
Scotch – Delerio Mind
Tame Impala – HFGW (Canyons Drunken Rage Remix)
Gatto Fritto – Clem’s Bounce
Laughing Light of Plenty – The Rose
Lindsay Buckingham – It Was You (Cousin Cole Demo)
Youth – Dark Moons
Doobie Brothers – Long Train Running (Tom of Finland / CC Edit)
Doors – Peace Frog (Tom of Finland / CC Remix)
Glimmers – Esta Si, Esta No
Major Swellings – Assquake
Den Haan – Night Shift
Westbam – And Party
Curtis McClaine – Let’s Get Busy Dub
Tom Tom Club – Suboceana (Jacking Deep & High)

The fabolous NYC production/dj tag team known as Cousin Cole and Pocketknife are crossing the pond for a series of dates here in Europe. We’re very happy that they’ll be in Malmö for the Discobelle 3 Year Anniversary party tomorrow. To promote their Europe trip, Pocketknife put together this mix of funky jams to be enjoyed while you wait for them to arrive in your respective city.

Cousin Cole & Pocketknifes Euro Trip 2009 – Mix by Pocketknife (zShare)

Tourdates and tracklist for the mix follows after the jump.

10 Apr Discobelle Party at Babel, Malmo
12 Apr Electron Festival with Discodeine and others, Geneve
17 Apr Blogdigger Party with 20 Jazz Funk Great at NY Club, Paris

TRACKLIST:

Soft Rocks “Dlalulac”
Animal Collective “My Girls (Skinny Friedman Edit)”
Tanlines “Bejan”
Bostro Pesopeo “Communquis & Reprise”
Kasper Bjorke “Doesn’t Matter (The Juan Maclean Remix)”
Chicken Lips “Many Members”
Osborne “Afrika”
Tussle “Pow!”
Mi Ami “Version (Pocketknife Edit)”
Radioslave “Koma Koma (Original Mix)”
Radioclit “Secousse (Round Table Knights Remix)”
Duke Dumont “Hoy”
Tinariwen “Ikyadarh Dim (Pocketknife Remix)”

The Flagrant Fowl boys, Cousin Cole & Pocketknife, are in a giving mood today with a mailout containing their respective disco-house remixes of Kanye West and Lykke Li. These are yummy…

“Pocketknife & I decided to send out low bitrate mp3s of the songs on our new EP. The version of “Love Lockdown” here is a little different from the EP version, mainly just shorter for home listening.”

Kanye West – Love Lockdown (Cousin Cole Radio Edit) (YSI)

Kanye West – Love Lockdown (Cousin Cole Radio Edit) (zShare)

Lykke Li – Breaking It Up (Pocketknife Loosefoot Remix) (YSI)

Lykke Li – Breaking It Up (Pocketknife Loosefoot Remix) (zShare)

PS. They’re planning on heading back to Europe in April so be sure to catch them if you get the chance.

Re-up from Christmas last year, Pocketknife from Flagrant Fowl with his Christmas mix for The Fader. We’ll be drinking glühwein and chilling to this.

Merry Christmas from all of us here at Discobelle to all of you!

Pocketknife – The Fader Holiday Mix: Live from Peppermint Palace (direct link)

TRACKLIST:

The Knife, “Reindeer”
Treacherous Three, “X-Mas Rap (X-Rated Version”
Ying Yang Twins, “Ho! Ho!”
The Who, “Christmas (Hockney Peacockney Edit)”
Sufjan Stevens, “Put the Lights on the Tree (Pocketknife’s Radioshack Remix)”
Hall and Oates, “Jingle Bell Rock”
Tittsworth, “Titts’ mas Time (2007 Edit)”
Vince Guaraldi, “Linus & Lucy (Pocketknife’s Hark, the Holler Remix)”
Luke, “Ho Hoe Hoes”
The Beach Boys, “Little Saint Nick”
Ringo Starr, “Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On”
Material, Nona Hendryx, “It’s A Holiday”
Bruce Springsteen, “Santa Claus Is Comin To Town”
The Muppets, “Christmas Is Coming (Pocketknife’s Stackin Ha’pennies Remix)”
Slumber Party, “J.C. Is Born (Pocketknife’s Little Town Remix)”
Belle & Sebastian, “Santa Claus, Go Straight To The Ghetto (James Brown cover)”
DJ Nephet, “Jingle Juke”
Was (Not Was), “Christmas Time in the Motor City (Hockney Peacockney Edit)”

After the oh so excellent Cousin Cole Acid Dub(s) of Kanye West track “Champion”, we’re guessing his Flagrant Fowl partner in crime Pocketknife wanted to join on the Kanye remix shenanigans. Here’s Pocketknifes House remix of “Paranoid”.

“I decided to house up “Paranoid” from “808s…” and give it a little extra bump so you can play it out. There’s an outro and a few parts are extended a bit.”

Kanye West – Paranoid (Pocketknife’s House Mix) (YSI)

Kanye West – Paranoid (Pocketknife’s House Mix) (Sharebee)

Cousin Cole of the Flagrant Fowl fam over in Brooklyn just sent over his dub version of the Kanyeezy track “Champion”.

“For this dub I changed the drum loop, brought up the acid lines, did a new arrangement and reduced the vocals to just a few snippets”.

Amazing stuff as always and as bonus we get the dub as a slow version “…for fans of slow-mo house shit”.

Kanye West – Champion (Cousin Cole Acid Dub FAST) (zShare)

Kanye West – Champion (Cousin Cole Acid Dub SLOW) (zShare)

New weird but dope mix (done for the Allez Allez blog) from our Brooklyn boys Cousin Cole & Pocketknife (AKA the Flagrant Fowl posse) who are both staples here at Discobelle HQ. Here’s what Cole said about it:

“My section has a bunch of weird stuff I like, and Pocketknife’s has the same, but also with some new ‘sclusives.”

Cousin Cole & Pocketknife – Party Allez Time (direct link)

Track by track run down after the jump.

TRACKLIST:

– Cousin Cole’s set –

Apocalyptica did a record of string covers of Metallica songs that was also the soundtrack for Your Friends & Neighbors — which was a particularly awkward first date movie for me a couple years ago.

Frank Hebly – De Tuinslangboogie
A fantastically weird record from a couple years ago that I know absolutely nothing about.

Rolling Stones – Can’t always get what you want (Soulwax Remix)

Graveleaf – The Crusade
Graveleaf is Mike B & Omar Doom’s joint project and “The Crusade” is a hell of a debut!

George Kranz – Bass Drum Ma Bass Drum
I hadn’t heard “Cosmic Disco? Cosmic Rock!” yet when I started working on this mix, but Baldelli was definitely an inspiration, especially in this section.

Axel Bauer – Cargo

Vastkustska Ryggdunkarsallskapet – Town Out of Order
An edit of “Stockholm” by Pugh Rogefeldt.

Sly Mongoose – Bad Pulse

Dude n Nem – Feet on Fire
Just the chorus but I had to throw some rap in. Love this song.

Gang – KKK (dub)
I only used the drums but this is a really great song.

Divine Edits – Sermon (Seratonin Edit)
No idea what the story is on this one, but it somehow makes cut up vocals seem totally 80s.

Matthew Dear – Sound and Vision
This version blew me away when I first heard it and I knew I had to figure out how to fit it in here.

Arbeid Adelt – Death Disco (Todd Terje edit)
Back to the dancefloor (somewhat). I’m a huge fan of Terje, and I was super psyched when he used my Bruce Springsteen remix in his mix for Resident Advisor.

Slab! – Mars on Ice

Photonz – Trembler (Discodeine remix)
Discodeine is Pilooski and Benjamin Morando. This track is just beautiful.

– Pocketknife’s Portion –

Glissandro 70 “End West”
I like how open this song is at the beginning with the loose animal sounds and polyrhythmic percussion. I love when that hard drum drops in over the tapestry and the afrobeat horns come in just after. I can’t help but think that the title is a play on West End Records given that the album artwork is an interpretation of the famed label’s cityscape logo. My loose joints are getting looser!

Yeasayer “Sunrise (Pocketknife’s Rise and Shine Remix)” White Label
Promo alert! All of the Pocketknife remixes that appear in my section of the mix will be on an upcoming EP entitled “Canyon Dancing.” This remix keeps the structure of the original, but just adds the right elements to get the beardos & hippie-sters prancing around. I’m a big fan of what this band is doing.

Soft Circle “Earthed (Pocketknife’s Terra Cotta Remix)” White Label
Hisham Baroocha is that dude. When I heard the bassline of this track it immediately reminded of old Chicago house. I decided to really push those tendencies, but keep the tribal nature of the original. My favourite part is the drum workout in the middle.

Gang Gang Dance “House Jam (xxxchange Remix)”
Gang Gang Dance has got a great set of diverse influences and they add up nicely. It’s my kind of “world music.” When I saw that xxxchange had remixed them I about fell out of my chair. I love his work with Spank Rock and as usual he turns in another great remix.

Twilight Circus Dub Sound System “Kik”
It took me awhile to figure out how to get a Twilight track into a mix, but at last here it is. I like the dub update that Twilight has produced and you can still hear some of the industrial music influences the dude was involved with before. Gang Gang has riddim influences, so it seemed great to create that little connection between the two. The transition into this song is my favourite one of the mix.

Liars “A Visit From Drum (Pocketknife’s großer Kessel Remix)” White Label
These dudes I would sacrifice a lamb or Williamsburg virgin for. They’ve managed to keep their sound evolving and Drums Not Dead is one of my favourite concept albums. I’ve wanted to remix a Liars song for a while now and this one had a nice pagan symmetry (with incredibly mic’ed drums!) that allowed for a great reworking.

Jandek “Your Other Man (Secret Frequency Crew Remix)”
My man Adrian aka Michna, hooked me up with his crew’s Jandek remix. Adrian normally drops classic electro heat, but here he takes the original and adds the right elements to give the song an additional haunting character. The 7″ actually comes with a facsimile of the correspondence they had with Jandek who gave the official thumbs up for the remix.

Gameplayers “Henri Texier” White Label
I stumbled upon these Belgian dudes while looking for other peeps who had remixed Beirut. Their remix of the Henri Texier song, “Le Piroguier,” is minimal, but so effective. The metronomic percussion/claps adds to the overall hypnotic quality of the original and I dig the added sound effects as well.

Patti Smith “Ghost Dance (Pocketknife’s Arms Out Remix)” White Label
There are a handful of Patti Smith songs that I think are incredible. I don’t listen to her music on a regular basis, but she’s a pioneer and I respect that. I dug through her catalogue in hopes of finding something with remix potential and this song’s ceremonial chants jumped at me. I’d like to think that the Bowery has a lot of ghosts dancing past CBGBs late at night.

Bat For Lashes “Trophy”
Natasha Khan is the girl you wanted to roll with in art school. Her entire concept for the band is great (videos, visual identity, and most importantly the music). When I heard her album, it sounded like something that I would have liked to produce. I love handclaps, marching rhythms, harpsichords and tambourines – it’s all there in her world. This werewolf would love to steal her gold coins!