LIKES THE REMIX BETTER

After the jump, a very amusing interview thing with Bullion, what was responsible for the glorious J Dilla/Pet Sounds mash up Pet Sounds: In The Key Of Dee a while back. With a new EP called Young Heartache out next week, we gave him a bell to talk about having big feet, being respectful to the original when you do remixes and what sort of record is a good icebreaker when one travels to alien planets.
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We sent some questions via email to Buraka, who have done a grand job of admitting that they are not always entirely focused on the job in hand when on stage, as well as coming up with a marvellous Fantasy Job Title. All of which you can read after the jump...
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VV Brown, bearer of impressive Stanwyck fringe action, refuses to get political about pop hair, gets educated in the ways of Mario Kart Wii and teaches us stuff about electrons and mobile phones...
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Anita Blay, aka cocknbullkid, was one of the most enlivening, eloquent and amusing interviewees we have had for some time. After the jump, she tells us about professional shoplifting techniques (which we do not condone, readers, shoplifting is very wrong) and polar bears, while we reveal rather too much.
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Lovely long interview with Little Boots after the jump, in which we ponder the best kind of Kinder Egg toy / Duffy's lack of charisma / Deborah Meaden / being creative on demand AND why Blackpool Pleasure Beach is actually rather dangerous.
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Alesha Dixon, Welwyn Garden City’s very own Beyonce, master of Latin and now, gratifyingly, a proper shiny solo popstar, is blessed with the sort of charm it is not possible to manufacture, no matter how many Faustian pop pacts one enters into. The trouble is, when we spoke to her we had all of ten minutes talky time and the most rubbish phone line since the cursed gadgets were invented. Warning: lots of shouting, after the jump…
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Method of Modern Love, a top travelpop-alogue that marries Europop’s emotive relentlessness to PSB-style English introspection, is out on Monday. We rang Sarah Cracknell to ask if St Etienne really did teach Xenomania and Richard X everything they know, if she nicked any snacky treats when she was wee and whether she wished a cliff-based death on Mark Lamarr, Everett True or David Essex. All the answers from top new Lipster scribbler Jonathan Leggett then, after the jump…
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Inventor of the term Fidget House, Jesse Rose talked to us from Berlin's glamorous Berlin last week - and top larks he was too. His record, What Do You Do If You Don't, it should go without saying, is five hundred times amazing and is out on February 16th so you have two weeks to save up your pocket money. Serious and non-serious chattings, then, after the jump...
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We considered putting a big CLOSED DUE TO SNOW sign on the site today, but really, that would only have been so we could have snowball fights, because as we all know, the internets are never closed. Instead here is a Questionnaire (completed by email) from our new favourite pop man Mike Bones, who fancies both Dorothy Parker and Meryl Streep.
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