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The Le Boeuf Brothers Release - Le Boeuf Brothers Remixed
Available: April 30, 2013 on Nineteen Eight Records

Featuring new remixes by Remy & Pascal Le Boeuf, David Binney, Tim Lefebvre, "Wolff Parkinson White" (AKA: Jochen Rueckert), Kissy Girls, Lucky Luke & Armand Hirsch

A remix is an alternate version of a recording made by rebalancing, recombining or altering individual tracks. The art of remixing is most common in technology-oriented genres such as electronic music, but can certainly be applied to any recorded music, although it seems quite rare in jazz/improvised music. However, there is actually a fertile, underground scene comprised of jazz musicians who are closet DJs. Amongst them are identical twins, the Le Boeuf Brothers, saxophonist/composer Remy and pianist/composer Pascal, whose latest project fuses their New York jazz background with a fresh blend of electronica, trip-hop and drum 'n' bass to create the remix collaboration project, Le Boeuf Brothers Remixed (available April 30 on Nineteen-Eight Records); an intelligent, entertaining, voguish new work, based on their recent album, In Praise of Shadows (Nineteen-Eight Records).

"Remy and I have always been interested in electronic production based music. Something about growing up in the 90s has given us a special connection to Bjork, Radiohead, Aphex Twin or anything with programmed drums and scratched vinyl. Though we moved to NY in 2004 to play jazz, you might think otherwise if you looked through our iPods," explained Pascal.

The brothers feel that electronic music is a natural progression and a logical next step in their creative lives. "I noticed that the electronic music community seemed to grow out of the digital recording era through 'remix' collaborations. Although electronic production is generally a solitary process, electronic artists have managed to develop a community by revamping and building upon each others' ideas via remixing, mash-ups (mashing two songs together), re-works (re-composition using the same process as remixing), etc. I see this as similar to the way in which jazz musicians recorded jazz versions of show tunes - so electronic producers are developing remixed versions of today's standards. Many within the jazz community share this passion for electronic music and are 'closet DJ's'. Le Boeuf Brothers Remixed is about bringing to light the growing underground community of electronic musicians associated with the jazz community and the huge potential for remix collaborations," said Pascal.

"Fading Apart" - David Binney Remix, Feat Nickel Killsmics and Nina Geiger. "Remy and I have always enjoyed David Binney's compositions and approach to music. When we were just getting into electronic music, he introduced us to a number of bands (such as Telefon Telaviv, Prefuse 73 and Tycho) that broadened our perspective and drastically changed our approach to making music. When Dave began remixing 'D2D' he included a hook recorded by the wonderful Nina Geiger. He also asked if we knew any good rappers, and after a year of performing regularly at Smoke Jazz Club, I got to know Nickel Killsmics, a phenomenal rapper with a talent for improvisation and crossover with jazz musicians." - Pascal.