Good Weather For Airstrikes

First of all, hats off to best-reader-ever Jamie, who tipped me off on this incredible track. I’ve already preached the gospel of Phones from the rooftops once before here, posting nearly his entire remixography, but now the man behind the moniker, Paul Epworth, is back with a new project to blow y’all’s minds. Said new project is Epic Man, Phones’ first foray into producing his own tracks, and the first track to surface from the forthcoming LP is likely lead single “More Is Enough”, featuring grime newcomer Plan B spitting hot fire over Phones’ ridiculous beat. Phones describes the sound as “Prince and Eno having a brain-off with Quincy Jones”, and though I really have no idea what that’s supposed to sound like, I can tell you that if it’s anything like the sound established on “More Is Enough”, than it’s downright bananas. While Plan B’s verses are good in their own right, Phones completely owns the track with a beat so hot it’s fucking molten.

Dramatic synth stabs open the track before a barrage of handclaps enter the frame and Plan B begins his rapidfire lyrical assault on the listener. Low-frequency synths underly the track, popping in from time to time, before a spiraling freak-out synth solo takes center stage at the two-minute mark. Further description is futile as this is the kind of track that needs to be heard to be believed, but rest assured it’s easily one of the year’s hottest tracks and my favorite rap track released to this point.

MP3: “More Is Enough (feat. Plan B)” - Epic Man ((highly recommended))

One more Epic Man track is available at Phones’ MySpace (here), where a new Phones remix, of Muse’s “Supermassive Black Hole” is also available. And as I said yesterday, Green Pea-ness, possibly the only other blogger to fully share my appreciation and enthusiasm for Paul Epworth, has Phones’ other new remix, for The Music’s “Freedom Fighters”, available here. For now though, here are two bonus selections from Phones’ esteemed remix work, my two favorite remixes of his, his incredible reworkings of The Futureheads’ “Hounds of Love” and Tom Vek’s “I Ain’t Sayin’ My Goodbyes”.

Bonus MP3s: ((highly recommended))
“Hounds of Love” (Phones’ Wolves At The Door Mix) - The Futureheads
“I Ain’t Sayin’ My Goodbyes” (Phones’ 12″ Version) - Tom Vek

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