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You may have noticed already, but DiS got its own mp3 ‘blog last week. You’ve probably scanned it once or twice after clicking through the ‘Drownloads’ link at the top of the page and found a green but growing archive of hot sound. Wossat? You ain't?

Here’s the first week in Drownload, for your ears and for your eyes.

Day One
Simian Mobile Disco - Two exclusive ‘Hustler’ remixes
(click for Kev Kharas's full post)
You know the video. Spilt milk showering down the faces and breasts of podium girls, bare flesh caked in meal, wretching and writhing, spew fountaining out over Aphex-twinned, melt-mask faces. Really, it’s proper rank.

In the aftermath DiS finds itself face down in a puddle of vomit, stretching a victorious arm skywards, fingers clutching two exclusive SMD remixes for you to listen to.

The first - by Bergen, Norway’s retro electro kingpin Skatebard - gives the bass more weight and strips the song back to its lonely minimal heart. It’s yours to keep. The second comes to you courtesy of Emperor Machine; who stretches the low-end ESG-thin and attacks Hustler with screeching synth and disco stomp; before it surrenders and dubs out, comfortably within ‘win’ territory.

Download: Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (Skatebard remix)
Stream: Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (Emperor Machine edit)

Day Two
Metric - 'Monster Hospital' (MSTRKRFT Remix)
(click for Sean Adams's full post)
Oh shut it, we're well aware this is oh-so-last-year but we heard a rumour that you can't get this song online anymore. Frankly this is far too good not to be dropped into any discerning DJ set, so—especially for all you lazy house party DJs out there—here's one we made earlier, originally featured on the b-side of our UK-release of 'Poster Of A Girl'.

And if you only the know original and need it spelled out before you hit play, essentially it's what would happen if Phoenix threw their gay french disco paint all over the place and squelched things into a disco ball pummeling pellet of love.

Download: Metric - Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT remix)

Day Three
Holy Fuck x Celebration - inter-band remix-off
(click for Kev Kharas's full post)
Anything worth listening to at the moment – massive-brained glitter-kraut, for example; or the instinctual, blood-driven loops of Afro/Tribal contention – revels in the uncertainty of lax, genre-less now.

As if by magic, this tandem of remixes arrives hoisting flags from either camp; Holy Fuck pinning Celebration's 'Fly the Fly' to a shorting metronome, while in the swirling puddle of ‘Frenchy's' it’s the brilliant colours of the latter that rise to the top like gutter oil; new tones arranging themselves into a tattered Afro-kraut union flag.

It's very, very rhythmic is what I'm trying to say.

Download: Celebration - Fly the Fly (Holy Fuck remix) / Holy Fuck - Frenchy's (Celebration remix)

Day Four
Abe Vigoda - 'Dead City'/'Waste Wilderness'
(click for Kev Kharas's full post)
Like the majority of acts mooching around downtown LA venue the Smell, DiS has become rather enamoured with Abe Vigoda of late.

Simply put, Vigoda are great; self-proclaimed tropical punks lighting up what they claim unashamedly as their scene, lighting up England’s dark, November, concrete days, lighting up Christmas shopping like a Caribbean holiday brochure in the rubble of tack and toy.

We’ve dug up this, an exclusive download of the act's forthcoming and still-in-production third album. Heading off into the weekend and the grey and grit of London, we'll be using it to stave off the pangs of pranging down we’re catching from the Burial record and all this inane Christmas lighting. Which hometown are Abe Vigoda tracking? “NAUGHTYVILLE, California, United States”.

Gimme gamelan, fuck Roy Wood.

Download: Abe Vigoda - Dead City / Waste Wilderness

Day Five
George Pringle - 'Carte Postale'
(click for Sean Adams's full post)
Re-imagining herself as the bastard child of James Murphy and Nico, a sick-of-guitars 20-something flicks open her scribbled journals of stories, arranges pages of type-written stream of conscious poetry and places them beside her iBook and decides to learn how to use GarageBand to soundtrack these tales of modern living. Part Bill Hicks and Ab Fab referencing social comment, part Capote versus Ginsberg via Beastie Boys “lit-hop”, backed by a kaleidoscope of soundscapes inspired as much by Nintendo menu music as party comedowns or the hues of classic black’n’white scenes.

Welcome to the enthralling world and music of George Pringle and her debut single ‘Carte Postale’. The NME has already questioned whether it’s “the single of the winter” whilst others have pondered over how the hell to pigeonhole this punkist anyone-could-do-this but few have the imagination to, anti-indie, post-karaoke, super-smart electronica.

Download: George Pringle - 'Carte Postale'

Day Six
Fanfarlo - 'Sand and Ice'
(click for Gareth Dobson's full post)
It's nice when you hear that David Bowie's got your back. This is what stunned the mortals of Fanfarlo back in April this year when the Thin White Duke declared that the sextet were among his favourite new bands.

Of course, that means sweet nothing if you don't have the tunes to back it up (David is getting on a little bit, now). Fortunately, the band established by Swedish ex-pat Simon have those in their oodles.

Three singles old, the band now offer this – a teaser of a teaser of an album that will be recorded over Christmas. Recorded mostly in Simon's front room, on his (now less irritable) laptop, it offers hints of joys to come.

Download: Fanfarlo - 'Sand And Ice'

A week in Drownload? Six days? It's just launched, it's patchy. Give us time and we will reward.