Addictive TV remix film trailers into dance tracks

Addictive TV have cleverly edited this trailor for Mark Wahlberg’s new film ‘Max Payne’ turning into it a dance track.

They have made quite a few of these edits, used as viral tools by the Hollywood studios to promote new films.

As well as Max Payne, they’ve worked on Kristin Scott-Thomas and Colin Firth’s new film, Easy Virtue, and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ from Trainspotting director Danny Boyle.

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1. Siriusmo - Wow (Modeselektor Remix)
2. MGMT - Electric Feel (JUSTICE REMIX)
3. Boys Noize - Let’s Buy Happiness (Proxy Remix)
4. The Proxy - Dancing in the Dark
5. Seamus Haji - 24H (Norman Doray Remix)
6. Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Laidback Luke Remix)
7. Steve Angello and Laidback Luke - Be (Laidback Luke Rave)
8. Robbie Rivera - I Want Candy (Robbie Rivera Mix)
9. Snoop Dogg - Sexual Eruption (Dirty South Remix)
10. Sinden & Count of Monte Crista - Beeper (Fake Blood Remix)
11. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Laidback Luke Remix)
12. Benny Benassi - Electro Sixteen
13. The Who - Baba O’Riley (SebastiAn Remix)

Tocadisco and David Guetta jam on Laidback Luke’s “Be” with Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas.  Live at Pacha, Ibiza, 2008.

Made up of 36 year old Theo Keating and the former Simian frontman and bloke behind that Justice mash-up, Simon Lord, THE BLACK GHOSTS hope to infuse a new style of dance music in the U.S.  Although they have dubbed their music as ‘goth disco’, Keating assures us that “we are not closest Goths.  For us, gothic is to do with architecture and that kind of dark aesthetic from Victorian times, which we love.”  They also love modern electronic music from Daft Punk to Serge Gainsbourg and early BBC Radiophonic Workshop stuff, which is all apparent in their debut album “Mixtape”.

The production process combines Theo’s hip-hop sensibilities and deep grained love for acidy beats and bleeps with Simon’s musical prowess - he plays guitar and double bass…HOT!  Simon also sings whilst the pair DJ.  He claims that it provides focus, especially in America where the whole DJ culture is slighty different.  “When we perform”, he says, “it almost works in the same way a hip-hop act with an MC works.  It’s like they get it.”

The result is an album that is accessible to dance fans and indie heads alike, by combining dance music principles with indie/pop ethics and bittersweet lyrics in a slightly eerie but addictive offbeat manner.  They are very popular with other DJs too, with remixes by Switch, Diplo, Sinden, and ours truly, Laidback Luke.

I’m a fan.  Are you?