Yet more 90s nostalgia to stir into GIITTV’s 90s week pot here. Cold Cave have remixed Belle & Sebastian’s ‘I Didn’t See It Coming’, which will appear on the latter’s 12″-only release, “Come On Sister”.
Curretly in the midst of a month-long US tour, Cold Cave has spent that time on the road compiling mixtapes and remixes and the New York-based act has revealed both this week.
Premiered today on Stereogum is the Cold Cave remix of Belle & Sebastian’s ‘I Didn’t See It Coming’, which will appear on the latter’s 12″-only release, “Come On Sister”. Cold Cave frontman Wes Eisold had this to say about the remix:
“In 1998 I lived on a street called the Eastern Promenade in Portland, Maine. A past-time of mine was walking the sea lined street listening to If You’re Feeling Sinister and The Boy With The Arab Strap. Belle was new and exciting and it felt as if articulation, literation and geniune honesty had made a much needed return that hadn’t existed since the Smiths. Elegant and seedy. I missed their first Boston show but it was instantly bootlegged. I bought a copy shortly after at Mystery Train from Peter Prescott. It’s still the very small personal triumphs that make everything worth it, and I’m happy that years later I got to release records on the same label as Belle and Burma. I wanted the remix to take me back to Boston days of late 90s/early 2000’s. Gibby’s Start, the Pill or the Manray. It works for me then and now. Hope you enjoy.”
Listen to and download “I Didn’t See It Coming” [Cold Cave Remix] here: http://www.stereogum.com/754251/cold-cave-remix-belle-sebastian/mp3s/
Also, last week on their website, Cold Cave posted a mix entitled “songs for the summer” (artwork above), with a playlist ranging from pure pop to avant garde, some familiar and some obscure, somehow all tied together loosely for this season.
Listen to and download Cold Cave mixtape here:
http://coldcave.tumblr.com/post/7342624379/on-the-last-cold-cave-tour-a-new-friend-gave-me-a
Cold Cave will appearing at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festival (Friday 26th August at Reading; Saturday 27th August at Leeds)
