About two days ago I had the pleasure of chatting to Jules (whose penis, left, is being pointed at to by Kim, right) from The Presets on the telephone, a chat in which we discussed Roisin Murphy’s hats, the irony of Billy Corgan labeling anyone other than himself as a “has-been,” the importance of European Tomato’s, and what the next single from “Apocalypso” is going to be (in my review of the record I mentioned this particular song should be the next single… fish it out for yourselves.) To celebrate the impending upload of this interview sometime next week, the lovely people at Modular have sent me a remixed Presets MP3 to share with you all. A remix by the brilliant French DJ Lifelike, no less!

LIFELIKE’S 1 SERIOUS REMIX OF “ARE YOU THE ONE!”
A party throwdown that joins the old with the new, this barnstorming new interpretation of Are You The One? has been masterly brought to “life” by French whiz-kid, Lifelike. Lifelike has stamped his name resoundingly onto the minds of electronica fans the world-over. His 1 Serious Remix of AYTO gives a respectful nod-of-the-head to the original track, but is a true reappropriation in its delivery. For Presets connoisseurs, this represents the closest thing to a bridge between Beams and their sophomore album, Apocalypso. In a genre-spotting sense, Lifelike has spawned a track that sits somewhere between a raw, industrial, noise aesthetic, and filtered disco 2am party jam.

The Presets - Are You The One (Lifelike’s 1 Serious Remix).mp3 *zShare Link*

Very good.

You just cannot complain when record companies - particularly ones as ace as Modular - give you free music now can you?