There's a new Franz Ferdinand remix competition over at Beatport. The twist: FF's original "Ulysses" hasn't been released yet (it'll be out in January), so the remixers have no final template to follow, and their results won't be "tainted by the direction and mood of the original version." Is a remix a remix if the original hasn't been mixed yet? (Derrida?) Alex Kapranos said the band "want to be surprised by the geniuses out there that no one has heard of yet." You can get more details, includ...
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