Anse La Raye (Carnival Remix) new video

mecha mecha

myspace update

Long over due myspace update, added 8 new songs for you to hear (although some are not "new" so much as new to myspace)

-Karl & Jen

http://www.myspace.com/cottonandgin

we now have 8 tracks up on soundcloud

You can listen, download etc.

http://soundcloud.comninthwaver

This Remix is Lame

Comment up on soundlcoud today for the Ladyhawk remix we did

'This Remix Is Lame"

well, yeah? So is yo momma, but we still had fun with her last night..."

etc.

coming soon ish, no really!

Here is the art for the new 2 song single we're sending today to digital services.

If you liked our last two remixes but really wished there weren;t vocals on them (heh!) then you will LOVE this single. :-)

for your viewing pleasure Royksopp

Ladyhawk and Royksopp

Two remixes for you to enjoy, link goo duntil October 25 or so, so do not dealy
Karl and Jen

Ladyhawke - https://www.yousendit.com/download/Z01QYkJsSWgzS3J2Wmc9PQ

Royksopp
http://download.yousendit.com/YkxMZXR5SWVEbUkwTVE9PQ

More blog love - Jen sick

OK - Jen has the cold from hell. And I have been busy at work (those shelves won't stock themselves!) So we are behind on music.
But meanwhile the Gaga track gets some more blog love:

http://www.boomboomchik.com/2009/10/time-to-clean-up-inbox.html

Mixes we're mixing- Yoko Ono, Dragonette United Forces

Just got the pella's for a new song by United Forces called "Music Over You" We love the track, it will be huge! But we couldnt see a mix.
And then...
then...
magic! Oh man, we are in LUV wit ourselves now!
Also we are polishing the LAdyhawk mix this weekend

Meanwhile mad Blog luv for our Lady Gaga Mix!!!!!! Really, on a legit blog!
http://www.arjanwrites.com/arjanwrites/2009/10/listen-to-lady-gaga-paparazzi-cotton-gin-remix.html

grrrr

We missed the deadline for the Royksopp remix contest. Oh well, It is a hella rockin mix and we totally dig it. When we are done wit it we will pop it up here and perhaps leak it to a few other blogs.
Stay tuned!

"Dance and Return" Lady Gaga

We Finish off Lady Gaga

OK
So we finished the remix o fPaparazzi and hopped over to the remix contest. The page was in German so who knows if we actually uploaded anything.
But hey! We'r eone of over 400 remixes. I bet we win this one easily!
Oh well. Finishing up Ladyhawk, it iwll be an awesome trippy mix. And we finally took a crack at Ryskopp 's "Tricky Tricky" and think have something cool
We'll post a mixtape next week of our rash of remixes.
As if anyone cares :-)
-Karl

Tiana and Blue Man group

The best feedback we've gotten so far for Anse La Raye
"I'm sorry but this is no where near Lissette Melendez & Daft Punk. It's more like Tiana meets the Blue Man Group.


Sorry but you guys really need to know what's out there before you come into the dance scene because these is slightly dated material"

To quote Karl - "Who knew DJs could be so bitchy." (Karl said this with no trace of irony people).

Anse La Raye Out today!

Anse La Raye is now out on Amazon

you can hear the track:

Caution, lame ass remixers at work!

Karl and I are whoring ourselves out to any damn random remix contest we can find-
To date we've started (and almost ruinded, I mean done) remixes for Ladyhawk's "Delirium" and uh, Madonna (?)"Paparazzi"
Oh wait, I mean Lady Ga Ga.

Actually truth be told, the vocals on the Lady ga Ga song are really good. We started out the remix acapella just so people can hear how good they sound.
Really (no irony or snakryness meant here).

-Jen

----> Was it our remix?

new single "Anse La Raye"

We've popped up the single edit on yousendit, so it the link will expire after a week. The actual single will have two other long mixes:-)
-Karl

"Anse La Raye" single edit

We need a singer

Do you sing? Does your girlfriend/boyfriend sing? Your dog? mesg us on twitter CottonGinMusic or leave a comment here.....

tweet to hear ou new single

ok
So this Wednesday we will release a version of our new single "Anse La Rey" via a tweet, so sign up now folks!
CottonGinMusic...

Ps - It's a town in St Lucia where Jen got so drunk she passed out onthe steps of the local church. I think the name refers to the sting rays that sometimes are off shore from the beach...
-Karl

follow us on tweeter or what ever it is called

Its the hot new thing evidently.
CottonGinMusic is our handle....

Apple foils our publicity plans

damnit, they posted it! They can;t even pretend to censor us?
: Things We Lost in the Catastrophic Failure of Our Mac Book Hard Drive on iTunes

Its out baby

We're on a chilloutpodcast~!

http://ublf-coast-to-coast.blogspot.com

That is all. Thanks btw!

moving along now

We are not good at sitting still. While the whole Mac Book thing had us down, we have put it behind us. We got a new hard drive and are back up and running. Meanwhile while we wait for the neew album (see below) to come out and get into trouble with iTunes, we are busy working on a follow up.

By busy we mean we have designed the cover. No music yet (please! as if...) just the cover.
The quote is from Shostakovich. Look it up.

So here are three covers we threw together with pics we stole from Flikcr...
Vote for your fave!
-Karl and Jen

new album out July 09

track list

Artist: Cotton & Gin
Release: Things We Lost in the Catastrophic Failure of Our Mac Book Hard Drive

1 Uitburo
2 A Bad Trip in the Leidseplein
3 dubofourdub
4 Guayama (edit)
5 The 17th Temptation of Heaven
6 The Beekeeper's Sylvan (fragment)
7 Jon in 84 (fragment)
8 Theme from F.O.X.I. (TV) (fragment)
9 Itchy Crack Up (demo fragment)

comment of the day

oh fuck

new video for Guayama (edit) up now

New single up on itunes (2 new songs really)

Humuhumunukunukuapuaa Life is the new song from us, backed wiht our forary into darkwave/breakbeat- Guayama

Grab the single free below - becaue we love you!
- Karl and Jen

Cotton & Gin
"Humuhumunukunukuapuaa Life" (mp3)
from "Humuhumunukunukuapuaa"
(Ninthwave Media)

More On This Album

new track for you to heeeeeer, new EP progress

OK, so let's get the good stuff out of the way frist - new track, now called "Steely" probably to be called "Last Night on the Club Crawl" or something.

So we have almost finished mixing the new Garland Cult remix and also have about 5 tracks for the new EP - which will hopefully be up by the middle of June. It is called "Platine Stereophonique" Neat huh?

-Jena und Karl

We're remixing The Garland Cult

We're hard at work on a remix for the Garland Cult track - The Raven. And yes, we tried really hard not to name it The Ravin' Mix. lol.
Actually Karl sat down and started to do a remix but the rythym track he came up with so bitchin I made him save it - the result is that we came up with a new tune we'll post soon - a sort of sequel to our "hit" "Intergalatic."

Meanwhile the Garland Cult remix was restarted by myself, I am bored and alone in Leiden this spring waiting for repairs to be done on my place in Monte Video. Anyways- I started and just could not stop. It's up to 10 minutes long now and will only get longer. Karl says I have a Napoleon complex when it comes to my mixes. lol

Here's our favorite Garland Cult track
The Garland Cult
"Talking With Aliens" (mp3)
from "Glitterazzi"
(Ninthwave Media)

Buy at iTunes Music Store
Buy at Rhapsody
Buy at Napster
Stream from Rhapsody
Buy at Puretracks
Buy at appliedSB / Groupietunes
Buy at mTraks
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#1 in Turkey! (well, not really)

But were are being fileshared in Turkey!
http://www.thesoundofistanbul.com/tsoi/showthread.php?t=72864

Very cool! Greeting and salutations too all our Turkish fans!!!!

Of course all we know about Turkey is from Midnight Express. Maybe time to brush up eh?

We got podcast action on sound culture et al

http://www.podfeed.net/episode/TSC042+Ramping+Shop+Skull+Food/1693110]

Plus - we ar enow fave music for potheads it seems :-)
http://dopecast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=433880

Plus go featured on Indiefeed's Twitter in late March

Jim Thackery featured us in his Blues podcast, uhm, and got what he had comin for doing so!

the Nubreaks site uploaded a podcast by Xsive that featured us.


Alastair Montgomery likes us

TR-Ance likes us enough to pirate us? (maybe, hard to tell).

iCast out of Isreal likes us

The World of J-Man lists us as one of their favorite blogs


But I guess our biggest ups goes to Indifeed which featured us a few days ago

new track - Foxtrot

Why is it named Foxtrot? What a wonderful question, your question is proof that we live in a free society, that we can express ourselves without fear of retribution or malignment in the public square. You are a beacon of hope and love in this time of trouble.

The song is up now here in rough form. We will probably brush it up a bit, but so far it is going to be on our next EP, due out, uh, soon...ish.

PS feel free to add your comment either here or on the download site. The link will take you to a place where you can stream the song first. But ey, it's only like 2 minutes long for goodness sake.

Be our friend please:-)

Hi

If you like us, let us know, sign up for updates and free music, we promise!

Hey, we're featured on Large Weekend today!

The wonderful :-) website Large Weekend features "Good Thing" today. Great review of the track there too, says we're an act to keep an eye on- do go on!

Video for "Good Thing"

Here is what we are calling the "Lazy Git" version, lol
From the Southern Version EP



we fixed it up a bit...

What the hell are we doing?

Hi

Jen here, karl is out shagging his "girl" friend again. Lazy bastard. Anyways, I am working ona remix for the wonderful Ms Dj Keri. She had a #5 hit on Billboard's Dance charts last year, we are taking a crack at "Beautiful Girl." Giving it a light pop-reggae feel. Trust me, it works. Maybe.

http://www.myspace.com/kerimusic

-----The lass herself! She totally rocks!

another day, another video

Hi
OK, this one is for our stray single "Intergalatic life." It's up on emusic,but not on iTunes yet.
Anyways... we are mixed on this video - in some ways it is nowhere near as neat as the one using Ub Iwerks Animation. And it tends to reinforce the idea that our music is wallpaper / muzak. Crap.
On the other hand, the footage is about space, our song is about... well, called something about space.

Sorry, what was the question?

We're working on a remix for DJ Keri on myspace. We like how it is going. It is going to be our first reggeaton mix. We kid! Sort of. Well, here it is, we used a reggea sample underneath DJ Kri's song. Have to see how it jells...

Meanwhile, the video.

moving the needle

OK
cool - in "just" the past five days our video has gotten 113 plays on youtube. Not bad, but sure a sehll not the viral breakthrough we had hoped for , lol!
Seriously though, we're happy as hell that people are listening (watching?)
-Jen

ok, here's a better video

Still getting the hang of Windows Movie editor, but I think this is better.
Love this old tyme animation.

We like this one better

We're kinda black and white people. I think this is cooler. Jen likes it because it's less obvious than the other cover.
Looks like we're already in a rut people!

-Karl

NP- Orb- "Little FLuffy Clouds"

Now up on iTunes, plus cool blog mention!!!

Hi
OK, so the EP is now on iTunes,yeah!

But much better news - we got a spotlight on:
DJKeiroz's blog!

wahhha hooo!!!

PS-
Here's a freebie to say thanks for all the support people have given us.




Cotton & Gin
"Itchy Crackers" (mp3)
from "Southern Version"
(Ninthwave Media)

Buy at iTunes Music Store
More On This Album

New track - Intergalatic Life

We like it :-)
"Intergalatic Life" jazzy, free form sort thing...
download

It's been a while

Since we did the stuff on Southern Version, so we already are getting a new EP finished and also have a single in the wings.
"Intergalatic Life" is actually our venture into Jazzy territory. Jazz folks will probably roll their eyes lol.
Here's a cover, comments welcome. [POssible sound file to pop up next week.

-

We're up on Lala and emusic now

The lala widget is on the right. Also Amazon today, wow.

We are also on eMusic

Welcome to Cotton & Gin's bloggy thing

Um, that's it. Carry on.
We'll post news, links, files, etc...

K&J