Falke Music

Fred Falke's guaranteed to bring a little uplift to any song, often creating a pleasing tension with the melancholy lyrics and vocals. This is a selection of his earlier remixes, initially with fellow French DJ Alan Braxe. 10 remixes, 10 years, 1 per year. As Kelis so succinctly puts in Bossy, "uh uh, watch the beat go".

 

1) Sunny Days (Fred Falke Remix): Patterns (2013)

2) Bossy (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix): Kelis ft. Too $hort (2016)

3) Heavy Cross (Fred Falke Remix): Gossip (2009)

4) Good Morning To The Night (Fred Falke Club Mix): Elton John vs Pnau (2012)

5) Take It Like A Man (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix): Dragonette (2007)

6) Holler (Fred Falke Remix - Extended): Rebecca & Fiona (2014)

7) The Look (Fred Falke Remix): Metronomy (2011)

8) Black History Month (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix): Death From Above 1979 (2005)

9) Dancing On My Own (Fred Falke Extended): Robyn (2010)

10) Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix): The Whitest Boy Alive (2008)

 

Falke Music 2005-2014 (1:08:14)
 

See How The Sun Shines Brightly

Mix CD, cut and pasted together for my friend Bridget, 22nd December 2009. 21 songs from the last year of the noughties and a little bit of Friday loveliness to welcome the weekend.

 

1) Dreams Are Dangerous: Bruno Coulais

2) All Or Nothing (Album Version): Au Revoir Simone

3) The Sun: Portugal. The Man

4) You'll Never Know (Dub My Love Re-Edit By Khayem): Edwyn Collins

5) Promise Less Or Do More: The Whitest Boy Alive

6) When I Grow Up (Dan Lissvik Radio Edit): Fever Ray

7) Sort Of Revolution (The Cinematic Orchestra Remix): Fink

8) Knotty Pine: Dirty Projectors + David Byrne

9) Warm Heart Of Africa (Album Version): The Very Best ft. Ezra Koenig

10) Other Fathers Song: They Might Be Giants

11) Mr. Blue Sky (Cover of Electric Light Orchestra): The Spinto Band

12) Runnin' Scared (Cover of Roy Orbison): Micah P. Hinson

13) Ambivalence Avenue: Bibio

14) Jennifer And Julia: The Clientele

15) Boy Lilikoi: Jónsi

16) Happiness (Quiet Village Remix): Jonathan Jeremiah

17) Falling Down (A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Pt. 4 By The Amorphous Androgynous): Oasis ft. Alisha Sufit

18) Wicked Game (Cover of Chris Isaak): exlovers

19) Tonight You Belong To Me: Lightspeed Champion ft. Charlotte Froom

20) 1901 (Ivan Beck Dub): Phoenix

21) Let's Fall Back In Love: Slow Club

 

See How The Sun Shines Brightly (1:12:08)

 

 
 

Norwegian Would

Peace Or Love (full album preview): Kings Of Convenience

 

Twelve years since their last album, and just over 20 years since their first, Kings Of Convenience release their fourth album, Peace Or Love, today (18 June) and it's like they've never been away. Built as usual around the beautiful-with-a-hint-of melancholy melodies and harmonies of Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe, a couple of songs feature Leslie Feist, my favourite currently being Love Is A Lonely Thing.

 

Kings Of Convenience videos also make great creative use of the seemingly dull concept of two guys strumming acoustic guitars and lead single Rocky Trail is no exception:

 

Rocky Trail: Kings Of Convenience (2021)

Despite the small-but-perfectly-formed Kings Of Convenience catalogue, Erlend Øye is a prolific artist, with solo albums, collaborations (La Comitiva) and more funky four-piece The Whitest Boy Alive.

Here are a few highlights from You Tube, in no particular order and not intended as a 'best of':

Lockdown Blues: Erlend Øye & La Comitiva (2020)

Misread: Kings Of Convenience (2009) 

Sheltered Life (Radio Edit): Erlend Øye (2003)

Toxic Girl (Monte Carlo 1963 Version): Kings Of Convenience (2001)

Golden Cage (Album Version): The Whitest Boy Alive (2006)

La Prima Estate (Cover of Bruno Martino): Erlend Øye (2013)

And here is a fun live performance by The Whitest Boy Alive in a Berlin shop window:  

 

1517 (Live in Berlin): The Whitest Boy Alive (2009)

And to finish on a (natural) high, here's one of my favourite ever Fred Falke remixes. The uplifting beats are underpinned by a sense of loss and regret and the simple but brilliant couplet,

 

So of course I miss you and I miss you bad
But I also felt this way when I was still with you

 

Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix): The Whitest Boy Alive (2006)

 

Sorry, I got a bit sidetracked there. Did I mention that there's a new Kings Of Convenience album out?

Buy Peace Or Love via Kings Of Convenience official website