CFCF: Continent

If you read this blog, you probably have seen very little blog-core, electro remixes, or basically anything that might make it to the top of hypemachine. In a total reversal, this post will cover an artist that made a remix of "D.A.N.C.E."

CFCF is Montreal's Mike Silver, who chose to name his project after an early Quebecois English-language TV station: "Canada's First, Canada's Finest." His remix output has been prolific (great ones of Justice, Health, and Crystal Castles) and consistent, a rarity for these blogophilic producers.

Now comes a full-length, Continent, which should be regarded as a test for someone like CFCF. Happily, Silver passes. His debut is coherent, consistent, and interesting. On Continent Silver ditches blog-core's main aesthetic principle (instant gratification) and instead takes his cues from a more sophisticated balearic place. Artists like Studio come to mind.

Buy Continent here

mp3 sample of remixes plus the single from Continent. It almost feels rebellious to post the Justice one so far after the fact. But as is typical with CFCF, it is restraint that carries his "D.A.N.C.E." which, in my opinion, remains the best interpretation of the original.

mp3 Justice D.A.N.C.E. (CFCF remix)
mp3 Health Before Tigers (CFCF remix)
mp3 CFCF Monolith