As alluded to in my post earlier this week, this is the inaugural post of what will hopefully become a weekly guest spot by yours truly, Jeune Lefort, featuring the most interesting electronic music out there (well, at least what I think the Lefort audience would like or at least stomach).  A perfect segue then is to use remixes of recognizables, and especially Lefort favorites.  In honor of Atoms For Peace’s (Thom Yorke’s and Nigel Godrich’s anyway) DJ-set on KCRW this morning (which you will eventually be able to hear/watch HERE), we begin with a band whose songs are ever-evolving into electronic music: Radiohead.

Radiohead has released a number of albums containing only remixes of their tracks, and both of the songs I’ve chosen are from a remix album for The King of Limbs and are, therefore, Yorke-approved.

The first track comes from Canadian artist Jacques Greene. “Do what you want” Yorke whispers, and Jacques Greene apparently wanted to make a very dancefloor-friendly percussion arrangement of the track and layer it with reverb-heavy samples of Yorke’s voice.  And it works.  Check it out below.

The second song, also comes from a Radiohead-sanctioned remix album and is by another Canad-“eh”-n, the Montreal-based Caribou.  On this re-mix of Little By Little, Caribou keeps much of the vocals from the original, but distorts and chops them into new and bizarre bits and then adds a haunting harp lead over all of it.

And finally, just for fun check out a hip-hop re-purposing of Thom Yorke’s Eraser by the promised super-group, but current one hit wonder, CRS which is made up of Pharrell, Lupe Fiasco, and Kanye West.

Hope you’ve enjoyed Electronic-ish Friday.

Jeune Lefort