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Hiem is a duo from the land of Sheffield. Releasing their EP 1/2 back in May of this last year on the amazing White Label Music. It is a nice teaser for what is sure to come. I heard them for the first time on the Electronic Music Bible with their song “Tweak” and was hooked immediately.

Their sound is one of a kind and to be honest really changes from song to song on this EP. Their influences are all over the place, which is highly enjoyable since some electronic albums tend to sound like one long song all the way through. You can definately hear some new wave, psychedelic, experimental, noise, and disco.

You should check out their website and look under personnels, it’s pretty funny. This duo comes out of nowhere. Like a manlier, more hetero(does that exist?), more psychedelic Junior Senior, haha. I’m going crazy. I love this track ‘Borderline’, you’ll see why. It has a little something for everyone, and I just fucking love the trumpet like sound or sample.

Check them out and check out White Label Music.

Hiemspace

Hiem- “Borderline” (mp3)

The 2006 Reader’s Poll nominations are all in — we’ve narrowed it down to the most nominated for each category. I couldn’t have made a better list myself.

Voting to pick the winners opens today. Poll closes December 12th!

Edit: Voting closed. Winners announced soon. Nominations below:

Favorite Album

Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit
The Blow : Paper Television
Cansei de Ser Sexy: CSS
The Game: Doctor’s Advocate
The Gossip: Standing In The Way Of Control
Herbert: Scale
Hot Chip: The Warning
Junior Boys: This Is Goodbye
Justin Timberlake: Futuresex/Lovesounds
Klanguage: Klanguage
The Knife: Silent Shout
Lily Allen: Alright, Still
Lo Fi Fnk: Boylife
Love Is All: Nine Times The Love Song
Midlake: The Trials Of Van Occupanther
Motor: Klunk
MSTRKRFT: The Looks
Peaches: Impeach My Bush
The Presets: Beams
The Rapture: Pieces Of The People We Love
The Scanners: Violence Is Golden
Soulwax: Nite Versions
Spank Rock: Yoyoyoyoyoyo
Spektrum: Fun At the Gymkhana Club
TV On The Radio: Return To Cookie Mountain
Whitest Boy Alive: Dreams

Favorite Song

CSS: “Let’s Make Love and Listen to DFA”
Data Rock: “Fafafa”
The Gossip: “Standing In The Way Of Control”
Hot Chip: “Over & Over”
Junior Boys: “In The Morning”
Justice: “Waters Of Nazareth”
Justin Timberlake: “My Love”
Klaxons: “Gravity’s Rainbow”
The Knife: “We Share Our Mother’s Health”
Midnight Juggernauts: “Shadows”
MSTRKRFT: “Easy Love”
Nelly Furtado: “Maneater”
New Young Pony Club: “Ice Cream”
Para One: “Dudun Dun”
Peter Bjorn and John: “Young Folks”
The Presets: “Are You The One?”
The Rapture: “Whoo! Alright - Yeah… Uh Huh”
Sally Shairo: “I’ll Be By Your Side”
The Scanners: “Low Life”
Simian Mobile Disco: “Hustler”
Spektrum: “Don’t Be Shy”
TV On The Radio: “Wolf Like Me”
Uffie: “Pop The Glock/Ready To Uff”
Van She: “Kelly” Yelle: “Short Dick Cuizi”

Favorite Remix

CSS: “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above” (Spank Rock Remix)
Franz Ferdinand: “The Fallen” (Ruined by Justice)
Goldfrapp: “Slide In” (DFA Remix)
The Gossip: “Standing In The Way Of Control” (Soulwax Nite Version)
Hot Chip: “Boy From School” (Erol Alkan’s Extended Rework)
Hot Chip: “Just Like We (Breakdown)” (DFA Remix)
Justice vs. Simian: “We Are Your Friends”
Kelis: “Bossy” (Alan Braxe and Fred Falke remix)
Klaxons: “Atlantis to Interzone” (Crystal Castles remix)
Klaxons: “Gravity Rainbow” (Van She Tech remix)
Kudu: “Bar Star” (In Flagranti mix)
Metric: “Monster Hospital” (MSTRKRFT Remix)
MSTRKRFT: “Work On You” (Para One remix)
New Young Pony Club: “Ice Cream” (Bang Gang remix)
New Young Pony Club: “Ice Cream” (Van She remix)
Robbie Williams: “Lovelight” (Soulwax Ravelight Dub)
Spank Rock: “Bump” (Switch Remix)
The Knife: “We Share Our Mother’s Health” (Ratatat Remix)
The Knife: “We Share Our Mother’s Health (Trentemøller Remix)
The Presets: “Down Down Down” (Midnight Juggernauts remix)
The Rapture: “Get Myself Into It” (Sebastian remix)
The Teenagers: “Homecoming” (SLUTTT 98% Done Remix)
Uffie: “Pop The Glock” (Sebastian Remix)
Wolfmother: Woman (MSTRKRFT remix)
Young Love: “Discotech” (Ocelot remix)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: “Cheated Hearts” (Peaches Remix)

Favorite Record Label of 2006

DFA
Dim Mak
Ed Banger
Gomma
Kill Rock Stars
Kitsuné
K7
Last Gang
Modular
Moshi Moshi
Mute
Ninja Tune
SRVICE
Sub Pop
Troubleman
Unlimited

Artist of 2006

Cansei de Ser Sexy
Goldfrapp
The Gossip
Hot Chip
Justice
Klaxons
The Knife
MSTRKRFT
New Young Pony Club
The Presets
SebastiAn
Simian Mobile Disco
Soulwax
Spank Rock
Switch
Uffie
Van She

Oh cool. Guns’N'Bombs have remixed The Teenagers. I don’t remember 1996 sounding this good, but yeah. Totally different than the SLUTTT mix… the GNB remix might actually take my top spot for “Homecoming.”

The Teenagers - “Homecoming” (Guns’N'Bombs XTC RMX 1996) (mp3)

Oh and. Guns’N'Bombs have their first 12 inch coming out on Kitsuné. They sent me the following mixtape a month or so ago… I guess it’s making it’s way around some blogs. Good stuff. I am never going to get sick of that Soulwax/Gossip remix. Never.

Guns’N'Bombs - “Guns N Mixtape” (mp3)

Oh my.

1) Congrats to Trevor for winning the Modular Does LA Party contest! If your name is Trevor, and you didn’t get an email from me then I’m sorry… you didn’t win. If you didn’t win you can still buy tickets at Groove Tickets OR try winning at Gang Of Neon.

2) The reader survey/contest ends Monday, December 4th at 6PM EST. The responses so far have been overwhelming. Thank you all for your kind words! We should have winners and results up by the end of next week. Update: Survey now closed.

3) And last: Our Best of 2006 Reader’s Poll Nominations also ends Monday, December 4th at 6PM EST. We’ve had over a hundred nominations in each category… crazy. I don’t like making plans, but we should be able to narrow it down to the top nominations and open voting Monday night. Lots of fun! Nominations now closed: Go Vote!

For better or worse, I never fell into the Editors-hype-machine-mania a while back, but I am slightly interested in the remix ep the band recently put out. A short collection… I wish they commissioned a few more mixes, but there are a few heavy hitters there including Sebastian and Ghislain Porier. That should make a couple of you sweat.

Kind of strange, but Paul Epworth’s mix is missing from the bunch. Lucky for us they’re using the Phones mix for promotion — which means we all save a buck.

Editors - “All Sparks” (Phones Remix) (mp3)

Purchase: iTunes

Paul Epworth aka Phones also has a new single out on Kitsuné which is pretty damn rad. Radder than his Editors mix fo’ shr. Eh if I wasn’t so damn lazy I might upload it. I’m sure you can find it on the Internets via Hype Machine or stream on Phones’ MySpace.