Hey Kids! DFA presents the smokin new Rapture single Sail Away which has been remixed by such nu disco superstars like Cosmic Kids, Cut Copy & Aeroplane! Limited to 300. DONT SLEEP.

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Dub for Mehdi" is, indeed, a fitting homage for the late producer. A-Track has turned the Rapture track into dance floor perfection. In the original's place is a song that morphs from music-to-move-to into a full on electro whirl. The whole track simply soars. The Populette remix, on the B-side, while not quite as frenetic in its energy, achieves near visual beauty, the images it conjures are so lovely. Imagine the original now filled with blinking, silvery-synth bells, all flashing like lights. If you could turn music's notes and tones into images, Populette's remix would be nothing short of illuminated. - Kali Holloway


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The circular story of the Rapture’s return to DFA requires that we start near the beginning, in 2002, in the early days of both the DFA label and a new century. That year saw the release of “House of Jealous Lovers” – produced by label co-founders Tim Goldsworthy and James Murphy – a track so ineffably good it helped reinvigorate a genre, propel DFA Records, define a watershed moment in music and, most impossibly, get indie kids to loosen the fuck up and dance. Following 2003’s critically hailed Echoes – and the seeming end to The Rapture and DFA’s creative collaboration – as well as 2006’s criminally overlooked Pieces of the People We Love, the band entered a musical respite that unexpectedly lasted five long years. Their reemergence with “How Deep Is Your Love,” a single that brings them back to DFA just as the label enters its 10th year, is not so much a return to form as an inspired reminder of their gift for writing songs that captivate and enthrall. More simply put, they’ve created one of the best choruses in recent memory. Set in the midst of a repeated piano house line, handclaps and a lightly buzzing synth drone, Luke Jenner’s surprisingly gospel inflected vocals (seriously – there’s more Clara Ward in Jenner’s wail than any trace of Robert Smith), the song lifts at its chorus into a hard-to-forget trail of gently rising and falling notes. By the time you get to the sax solo – Jenner’s repeated “Hallelujahs” alongside – the revival hits its peak and, thankfully, stays there. On the flipside sits UK-based Emperor Machine’s extended remix, which starts by thickening the bottom end with flanging bass, and then travels through an echo chamber of alien noise and funky, rubberized bass. “How Deep Is Your Love” is the first single from The Rapture’s forthcoming album In The Grace Of Your Love, their first full length release on the DFA label. The record was recorded in Brooklyn and Paris, France, and produced by Phillippe Zdar, who has also worked with Chromeo, Phoenix, Air, Daft Punk and Cut Copy. Zdar is also one half of the duo Cassius.

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600 copies worldwide, when they’re gone they’re gone. No repress (seriously).

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Wild Rumpus is Bitches Brew head honcho Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy (Cosmodelica / Classic Album Sundays) and former Captain Beefheart axeman and Jeff Buckley collaborator Gary Lucas. With Wild Rumpus they bring together seemingly contradictory sounds such as disco, rock, surf music, blues, dub and country while enlisting some extraordinary talent along the way.his latest effort is the most indulgent Wild Rumpus song yet and is somewhat of a cross between Ashra Temple and Giorgio Moroder clocking in at an epic 12 minutes. The remix is courtesy of Mudd and has “Balearic Classic” written all over it. The single also includes an instrumental version of “Tikkety-Boo” which is a preview to the vocal version with Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner which will be featured on the album.

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Bitches Brew House features the deep and sexy Jimpster remix of “Turning The Tide”, by soul singer Jinadu (later of the Beauty Room with Kirk DeGeorgio) which was championed by the soul/house DJs like Dennis Ferrer. On the flip is Cosmo’s Ch’i project featuring Billie Godfrey with “Mistaken” with a remix by Louie Vega protégé Alix Alvarez who gives it a sultry dancefloor vibe. The second cut on the B-Side vinyl is the Cielo Dub of “The Real Thing” by Bambú, a cover of the Stevie Wonder classic “The Real Thing”. Nicolas Matar’s Cielo Dub is a slickly produced house mix geared for the big club sounds of Ibiza.

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