It’s been a while since the last MondayMix but they’re making a comeback! This week we’ve got Blackbird Blackbird’s Sunspray remixed by Charlee, Javelin, Millionyoung, The Pass, Two Door Cinema Club, The Temper Trap, a track off El Guincho’s new album Pop Negro and some Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (Remix Artist Collective style).

Blackbird Blackbird - Sunspray (Charlee Remix)

Javelin - Oh! Centra

Millionyoung - Sunndreamm

The Pass - Cross Walk Stereo

Two Door Cinema Club - This Is The Life

The Temper Trap - Soldier On (Big City Love Affair Remix)

El Guincho - (Chicah-Oh) Drims

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home (RAC Mix)

Just when summer seems to be nearing its end, as it slips beyond the mountains into the unseen crispness of autunm, Barcelona’s El Guincho (Pablo Díaz-Reixa) holds the warm sunlight overhead by spicing things up with the release of the second single off his upcoming album Pop Negro— FM Tan Sexy. Last month El Guincho released Bombay, the first of nine tracks off his second LP. You can download both songs at his website. Pablo Díaz-Reixa has worked hard over the last few years to move his sound forward from Alegranza and Folías; “I did some research on radio hits/big selling singles in North America, South America, England and Spain in the late 70′s, 80′s and early 90′s. I found out that a massive percentage of these hits were engineered (sometimes also produced) by just around 40/50 different guys.”

• El Guincho - FM Tan Sexy

“I started studying what makes them different but also what they had in common and I found out some really interesting coincidences. The reverbs they used (except for more ‘so-eighties’ kind of tracks, all the rest were more keen on using different tap tempo delays as verbs rather tan proper springs/halls); the backing vocals production (there are super interesting coincidences between Michael Jackson/Quincy, U2, Bryan Ferry/Rhett Davies era productions, Mariah Carey/Walter Afanasyev, Nile Rodgers, Teddy Riley, Paco Trinidad in Spain, etc.); the way most of these guys used line + reamping style instead of mic’ing everything when tracking; the way they used stereo image and how they distributed sounds on space (this is where I found less coincidences and was therefore more inspired).

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