Fixers - Iron Deer Dream (Chad Valley Remix)

Although we’re not one of those blogs that just posts random remixes to get hits through Hype Machine, there’s no denying that occasionally a little (or even big) remix will come along and grab our attention. What we particularly like is when two artists we’ve previously blogged get their hands on each other and form something that sounds exactly 50% like one act and 50% like the other. This is why this new version of Iron Deer Dream by Fixers, remixed by Oxford neighbour Chad Valley (possibly more of him soon) gets us pulling a schoolboy-esque thumbs up pose. Shimmery house styled piano and floaty reverb layered vocals bring a bronzed tinge to what was already a very warm sounding song. We’re thinking palm trees, we’re thinking chilled out nightclubs and we’re thinking cocktails.

Fixers are out on tour in the UK this week and we’ll be catching them live later this week so look out for a few tweets on that from our twitter.

Now – if you’ve come here from Hype Machine why not stay a while and check out some of the other music we feature. You might even find a new musical friend?

Iron Deer Dream (Chad Valley Remix) by Fixers.

Chad Valley - Ensoniq Funk

Chad Valley aka Hugo Manuel from Oxford makes the kind of music that, if this site was a hip Americanised blog, we would probably be describing as ‘chilled summer jams’, ‘mellow joints’ and ‘next level sh*t,’ but we’re not. In fact we don’t even feel comfortable using the word sh*t which in our minds is still something brown, smelly and unpleasant, not a term of something rather splendid. However whatever terminology is used to describe his work, and despite his press release suggesting it’s “the sound of innocence won back" and that "geometric rainbow synths skitter over layers of future R&B and lush atmospherics, radiating endless bliss and a world of pleasure,” which frankly sounds like the PR company* has taken a load of verbal laxatives - something which we have also done when getting all little over worked and excited about music - we are rather enjoying his floaty balaeric / ambient tunes.

We never thought we would see a day when we posted a track that featured the sound (or sampled sound) of pan-pipes, but today is that day. More washed out than Washed Out, Chad Valley adds himself to another of the mightily impressive number of acts coming from Oxford these days including Foals, Pet Moon, Stornoway, Trophy Wife and Fixers. Oxford, the new Brooklyn? Well, maybe not but there’s something going on there for sure. You can download the new Chad Valley track Ensoniq Funk below. Chad Valley is ‘killing the game with a minor stroke of awesomeness.’ Nope sorry, that sounds wrong. Chad Valley - rather pleasant indeed. That’s better. Enjoy.

*Or possibly 1 man / woman band who is helping out with PR !

Chad Valley - EP - 04 Ensoniq Funk by CASCINE