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Yelle + Kitsuné + Lorenz Rhode
Kitsuné are about to release Yelle's new single "La Musique" along with remixes by Discodéine, Lorenz Rhode, Tepr and Myd on October 4.
French Yelle on French Kitsuné, a great combination. And speaking of France and great combinations, Yelle is right now on the West Coast of France with Siriusmo to finalize their new songs. Exciting! Until more on Yelle here's the remix by Lorenz Rhode of "La Musique".
Yelle - La Musique (Lorenz Rhode Remix)
Posted by Jonas/Jonny Puma kl. 10:14 PM 4 comments
Labels: Lorenz Rhode, Yelle
A lot of PUNCHES
There's a lot going on for Brooklyn based trio of PUNCHES right now. Two parties and their debut single for free.
We'll start with the parties. October 1 they will make their LA debut at Bardot on 1737 Vine Street. The party is free with rsvp, just make sure to email ftwrsvp@gmail.com.
Tuesday, October 12 they will have the release party for their EP "Sleepless City" released on Our Label. They are joined by their friends Jacques Renault, Midnight Magic, Telephoned and a DJ set from Whitney Fierce. The show is $5 or free entry with rsvp to punchesbk@gmail.com. The event takes place at Public Assembly (70 N 6th St Brooklyn) and is from 9 pm–1 am. So if you're in NY you should go, we live in Sweden so it's hard for us, but if you are in NY there's really no excuses.
And finally PUNCHES give away their single "Feeling Right" along with a remix of "already-posted-today-act" The Phantom's Revenge.
PUNCHES - Feeling Right
PUNCHES - Feeling Right (The Phantom's Revenge Remix)
It's not totally over yet, two bonus tracks to let you you know PUNCHES even better. The Au Revoir Simone remix is ace.
Au Revoir Simone - Only You Can Make You Happy (PUNCHES Remix)
Jackie Wilson - Higher And Higher (PUNCHES Remix)
Posted by Jonas/Jonny Puma kl. 9:13 PM 2 comments
Labels: Au Revoir Simone, Jackie Wilson, PUNCHES, The Phantom's Revenge
LBCK about to release the "Start" EP
October 4 LBCK will release their EP "Start" on On The Fruit Records almost everywhere (iTunes, Beatport and so on). We featured the great "Start" back in July along with the fine and colourful video. But it's as good that it should be re-posted:
On the EP there are a bunch of excellent remixers joining LBCK's release. What do you say about names like Fare Soldi, The Phantom's Revenge, Bit Funk, Moonchild, and la ZEBRA? Yep, thought so, this release will be something extra. LBCK are also kind to give you guys two of the fine remixes of "Start" in high quality. So nice of them that you absolutely should buy the whole "Start" EP on October 4.
LBCK - Start (Fare Soldi Alla Frutta Remix)
LBCK - Start (The Phantom's Revenge Daily Double Remix)
Labels: Fare Soldi, LBCK, The Phantom's Revenge
Chiddy Bang + Monsieur Adi
Finally some new stuff from our favourite French-Italian; Monsieur Adi! This time he remixes Philly hip-hop duo Chiddy Bang, whose album "The Preview" is out on October 11 in the UK and the day after in the US. Pre-order it now through their MySpace page.
Chiddy Bang - The Good Life (Monsieur Adi Remix)
Posted by Sebastian/Arnie B kl. 5:13 PM 2 comments
Labels: Chiddy Bang, Monsieur Adi
Tracasseur Nights
Tomorrow (Saturday) it's premiere for our new club "Tracasseur Nights at Ace". Once a month we got the honour to host the Ace place. Every time we will present special guests from all over the world. At the premiere night we will bring these wonderful acts:
■ JUSTIN FAUST (DE)
Regular readers of Tracasseur know that we love this German guy. Justin Faust is a dj and producer that also is one of the bigger names within the scene of French touch, nu italo and dreamwave. People around the globe say he's the new Falke or Lifelike and we can't argue with that. He's been djing in a lot of cities of the world, for example in New York he did it together with Danger, Louis LaRoche, Moullinex och Xinobi. Tracasseur are proud to be the first ones to bring him to Stockholm.
Justin Faust at MySpace
Justin Faust at Tracasseur
■ WHAT KIND OF BREEZE DO YOU BLOW (CA)
This night we have been collaborating with the label Brilliantine, which is run by the people of What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow?. This duo hails from Toronto, this year's city of music. They make awesomely superb remixes and we're proud to bring them over the great sea to Stockholm while they're on their mini-tour in Europe.
WKOBDYB? at MySpace
WKOBDYB? at Tracasseur
■ MONTAUK (SE)
The young duo from Stockholm Montauk is also on Brilliantine and they're hotter than anything right now. Since they released the great track "Holiday" earlier this spring they've been hyped all over. They call their own sound for "luxury-pop" and it's obvious that these guys are into something big, very soon…
Montauk at MySpace
Montauk at Tracasseur
Here are some tracks from these guys to get you started, also visit the links above for more music from them. Some of these tracks are also collaborations between them, which make this evening even funnier. If you're in Stockholm get your asses over to Ace and dance with us.
Steve Mason - Hound On My Heel (What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow? Extended Edit)
El Perro Del Mar - Change Of Heart (What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow? Remix)
What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow? - Love of Luxury (Montauk Remix)
Ratata - Clarence (Montauk Edit)
Montauk - Holiday
Montauk - Holiday (Justin Faust Remix)
Justin Faust - Holdin On
Justin Faust - The Capri Spinoff
Also check out the great Ace blog run by resident dj Daniel Öhrn. He posts great music from indie pop to electro. Well worth a visit or several.
Labels: El Perro Del Mar, Justin Faust, Montauk, Ratata, Steve Mason, What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow?
Laidback Luke + MSTRKRFT
Nervous Records were really one of the coolest labels around the mid-90s when I was a huge fan of American garage house music. The logo with the guy who gets his hair cut off by a flying vinyl record was a seal of quality, and legendary artists like Byron Stingily, Masters At Work, Joey Beltram, Frankie Knuckles, Joe T. Vannelli and Kim English (just to name a few) were all released there. It's cool that they still are an important dance label even today with artists like Boris and Oscar G.
Recently huge progressive house star Laidback Luke released his "Till Tonight" EP there. It features vocalist Jonathan Mendelsohn (who will be performing "Till Tonight" at Pacha NYC on October 15 by the way) and remixes by Ferry Corsten, Tom Trago, Chris Kaeser and Canadians MSTRKRFT. Since it's been a while we posted something from the Toronto duo, I thought I'd just throw this up here as a break from all the synth-pop and indie electro we've been posting lately. This track will also get you into that Friday night party mood.
Laidback Luke ft. Jonathan Mendelsohn - Till Tonight (MSTRKRFT Remix)
Buy the full release at iTunes.
Posted by Sebastian/Arnie B kl. 2:08 AM 1 comments
Labels: Laidback Luke, MSTRKRFT
Exclusive interview: Minitel Rose
The French electro trio Minitel Rose is back in the game. Two years after their critically acclaimed first mini-album, "The French Machine" (Futur, 2008), Raphael, Romain and Quentin have teamed up with K7! Records for their sophomore release "Atlantique". We decided it was time to talk with these three Frenchmen about the release and how good Nantes really is.
Hello Minitel Rose, you're back, and you're back with great news. You're here with your debut album "Atlantique". Feels good we suppose?
Of course, it still seems unreal for us to realize a child's dream. I mean we are doing music, travelling around the world to play it, how can't that feel good?
You released "Atlantique" on the French market back in May on Futur and now it's time for the rest of the world to get their hands on your debut album when Futur and German label K7! are working together on the international release. What are your expectations with the release worldwide?
"The French Machine", our first release had a little international visibility. With this one and the help of K7! we are really hoping that we could be touring in those countries where Minitel Rose never played before, such as USA or Australia.
Our expectations for "Atlantique" went high when we first heard and posted the instrumental version of "Snake Girl" back in March. We weren't disappointed when we heard the rest of "Atlantique" for the first time, so to speak. It's a great album, are you satisfied with the general impression of "Atlantique" yourselves?
It's really hard to get an objective point of view on our music, I mean we put all our energy and our feeling into it. For us "Atlantique" is a real step after "The French Machine". We decided to do it only by ourself, we recorded it, performed all the instruments, mixed it, finalized the artworks, so the album it's exactly as we wanted to do it. We choose each songs to be unique in its style and now we put the same attention on their live interpretation.
If you then should compare this release with the release of the mini-album "The French Machine" from 2008. What do you think is the biggest difference between them?
"The French Machine" was a kind of two first years best of Minitel Rose. With "Atlantique" we were only the three of us, working in a big house in front of the sea during one month. Even if we get some ideas before to get there, we composed, recorded and mixed the whole album during this period. There were two years between these two records, during this time we were always thinking about how we wanted that album to sound.
It's definitely more pop but with a far better sound, we used synths we like such as Moog Voyager or DX7. Raphael found his own vocal style he was looking for, a mix between sexy intention and powerful new wave chorus.
We've heard that the first rough outlines for "Atlantique" were made while you were on the road?
This is not really exactly. It was what our French partners told to be more sexy but the truth is that when we are on tour it's hard for us to be focused on other things than the live shows, plus we like too much party, to do other things after a show. But we were always speaking about what we wanted to do, that is true. And we started some songs between two gigs in our home studio. We really wanted to be the three of us in front of our synths, we've always done like that.
You guys are originally from Nantes, that's close to the Atlantic Ocean. Is it therefore the album got the name "Atlantique"?
"Atlantique" is a part of us. To be honest we started to work on this album in Paris, in a traditional studio with a professional engineer, but it wasn't us. I mean we didn't recognize ourself in the way to do music, it was the way for us to figure out that the place we are at when we compose have a real influence on our music. So we decided to rent a house with our own keyboards and stuffs, in a place we perfectly know and love. The place where we met each other 10 years ago: the Atlantic Ocean. The ocean was always there in our life and it's a kind of family member. And we like the idea to be on the other side of the US, which is a dream for us.
Nantes were said to be "the most liveable city in Europe" according to Time Magazine back in 2004. Do you agree with them?
How can it not be, this city is at human size, you can easily know the good people, the good places. There is no coolest contest, all is really natural. It's only 30 minutes from the sea. Architecture is wonderful... and we got the Muscadet (a French white wine).
You're a part of the amazing Valerie Collective with acts like Anoraak, Russ Chimes and The Outrunners. Do you think that being a part of Valerie has helped you forward in your career?
It has helped us to get an international focus for sure. The blog is really famous, and the Valerie party organized all around the world get a real impact. Valerie is for us the best on the 80's revival sound. Each member get his own way in different sounds and regarding career choice this is why the collective is so interesting.
The members of Valerie work together a lot, you remix The Outrunners, Maethelvin remixes you, College and you collaborate. How well do the members of Valerie know each other?
First it was College who created the blog in parallel with his musical project. His friends from the childhood, Maethelvin and The Outrunners were starting their project in the same musical direction. They were the first members of the team, four years ago now. College saw us at our first gig in Nantes, he liked it and after a few beers we were part of the crew. It was the same for Anoraak. The last member was Russ Chimes (the only who didn't live in Nantes). We are friends first, and we share same influences such as 80's blockbuster, synth gods (Vangelis, Moroder, Tangerine Dream), and we all share the same graphist (The Zonders).
And speaking of remixes, back in the days you made a couple of special remixes of Pink Floyd and The Kinks. How was it to remix classic old songs like these ones?
It was a kind of game for us to remix songs that are untouchables. It was our first step into the remix thing, we had no limit and that's why it works I guess. It's always fun to play these songs in a DJ set.
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In the Wall (Minitel Rose Remix)
You've been playing live and DJing at some of the best clubs and festivals around the world. On live gigs you are four performers instead of three and you use no computers or tapes. Is the feeling more genuine when doing so?
To find the best way to do our live set was a long journey. We tried a lot of things, from one computer and two mics to how we got it now. As a spectator we like rock performances, this is what we wanted to do, put all our energy in our instruments. So we decided to use only instruments, play live (no computers) and to be joined by a drummer. The songs are not exactly as on the CD but we don't care, cause they got their own life on stage.
Tracasseur wants to thank you guys for the interview and we wish you all success with the worldwide release of "Atlantique". Salut!
Here are two carefully chosen great tracks from "Atlantique". Go and buy your copy of it here to get your hands on the whole great album.
Minitel Rose - Captain
Minitel Rose - Hundred Years
Posted by Jonas/Jonny Puma kl. 12:47 AM 1 comments
Labels: Exclusive Interview, Minitel Rose, Pink Floyd
Some Bag Raiders while waiting...
...for their self-titled debut album release next month. The great duo Bag Raiders from the land down under (Australia) are working with a lot of great names on the release, like long-time favourites Ted & Francis. Bag Raiders have been one of our special ones for quite a while and therefore we're excited on this release.
Meantime, their latest track "Way Back Home" is so damn good and it has been floating around since August but that will not stop me from sharing it now, because it's lovely.
Bag Raiders - Way Back Home
And at the same time, and old Tracasseur classic that we play time to time while djing.
Bag Raiders - Turbo Love (Light Year Remix)
Labels: Bag Raiders, Light Year
Anoraak + Sally Shapiro + Tesla Boy
More beautiful electro-pop: Anoraak, who released his latest single as late as last month, has teamed up with our favourite Swedish nu italo duo Sally Shapiro. The result is, not surprisingly, wonderful. Just as last time these two acts collaborated on Anoraak's remix of "Anorak Christmas".
Anoraak - Don't Be Afraid ft. Sally Shapiro (Alternative Version)
Sally Shapiro - Anorak Christmas (Anoraak XMas Remix)
And since we like to spoil our readers, here's Tesla Boy's take on "Miracle":
Sally Shapiro - Miracle (Tesla Boy Remix)
Labels: Anoraak, Sally Shapiro, Tesla Boy
Return of Electric Youth
Right now Sweden is in shock. After the election on Sunday we now have a populist "immigration critical" right-wing party with its roots in fascism in Parliament, something we have been proud not to have, compared to countries like the Netherlands, France or Denmark. While watching the last debates and the election results unfold this weekend, with a growing realization of what was happening, we got the comeback from Toronto duo Electric Youth in our inbox. And I don't know, it just spoke to me.
Well actually, I do know. Here is a duo who have been a couple since middle school. I don't know if that has anything to do with their music. All I know is Bronwyn's voice, which has to be one of the most beautiful voices in the world of blog electro, just fits so perfectly with Austin's happy, bubbly sounds. I know their music put a smile on my face and make my heart race.
And it's just so clear to me that what the world needs is less fear of things we don't know and hate of people who aren't like us, and more of positivity, compassion, warmth and open mindedness. And Electric Youth.
Electric Youth - Right Back To You (Removed by request)
Labels: Electric Youth
GFR004 - HR "Memory Chord"
Last Monday we posted an exclusive track named "Misery" from this EP by Norwegian italo queen HR, today it's time for the full release. "Memory Chord" is released by our friends over at Girlfriend Records, and they always make their releases free to the people.
This EP has been longed and now it's here. HR shows us to make beautiful nu italo with that right mix of the old and the new. This girl is classy! I know that she can handle the synth, I've seen her in action. Just take a listen to "Sandra"...
The EP also includes a remix by our old Swedish friend Neon Workout. He's into that kind of same music style but yet in another direction then HR. Enough said, here's "Memory Chord" EP by HR.
HR - Sandra
HR - System_R
HR - Memory Chord
HR - Memory Chord (Neon Workout Remix)
HR feat. mr Kitten - Misery
And if you fancy the cover artwork, I can tell you it's made by me, so you can fancy me too...
Labels: Girlfriend Records, HR, mr Kitten, Neon Workout
Tracasseur ♥ Elektrana Mixtape #2
In case you missed our radio show on Elektrana Radio last Wednesday, here's the mix that was aired. Apart from the usual challenges of live mixing, getting it as close as possible to an hour made me having to do some adding and subtraction while mixing. The mix clocking in at slightly less than 59 minutes, suggests I did something right.
Music-wise it ended up pretty nu disco-y, but with a flirt to my techno roots towards the end with a mash-up I concocted. It's between my favourite track from legendary techno duo Maurizio, "M5A" from the M5 EP, and the early eighties electro classic "Set It Off" by Strafe.
Tracasseur Loves Elektrana #2
(You can also find it at our Soundcloud)
Black Box - Everybody Everybody (Original Mix)
Grum - Cant Shake this Feeling (Grum Club Mix)
Señor Stereo feat. Lookbook - Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight
Kele - Everything You Wanted (Fred Falke Full Remix)
Clashing Egos - Aminjig Nebere (I Trusted You) (Joakim's Afrobot Mix)
Cut Copy - Far Away
Miami Horror - Sometimes (G.L.O.V.E.S Remix)
Breakbot - Baby I'm Yours (Aeroplane Remix)
Jamiroquai - White Knuckle Ride (Penguin Prison Remix)
Golden Bug - Last Dance In Tokyo (G.L.O.V.E.S ReWrite)
Delorean - Stay Close
Lo-Fi-Fnk - Want U
Strafe vs. Maurizio - Set It Off (Tracasseur Bootleg)
I Always Wanted a Pony - The Weekend
Labels: Elektrana, Mixtape, Tracasseur
Two Door Cinema Club + Cryptonites
Two Door Cinema Club seem to have had a great year. Their name have been popping up everywhere, and I have liked what I've heard, regardless if it's been originals or remixes. After all, it's generally a sign of quality when you find yourself liking tunes of the same band being remixed by different remixers.
This is the latest remix, made by (edit) Swiss disco house kings; Cryptonites (sorry for calling you Spanish guys).
Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know (Cryptonites Remix)
Case in point about good remixes of TDCC is French Horn Rebellion's excellent tune from last spring.
Two Door Cinema Club - I Can Talk (French Horn Rebellion Remix)
Labels: Cryptonites, French Horn Rebellion, Two Door Cinema Club
The full remix package for Grum's "Through The Night"
British Grum are soon to release the track "Through The Night", to be more precise, October 4 is the exact date. But already today you can take a listen to the full 10-track release here with a bunch of excellent remixes of an excellent track. With remixes by estimable acts such as Tom de Neef, Bit Funk, Swiss Menergy, Perseus, Beaumont and Grum himself, it's a very fine release.
Grum is also a kind soul and share these two fine remixes from the release with you guys.
Grum - Through The Night (Beaumont Remix)
Grum - Through The Night (Perseus Remix)
Labels: Beaumont, Bit Funk, GRUM, Perseus, Swiss Menergy, Tom de Neef
Young Empires + French Horn Rebellion
This year's best acquaintance Young Empires sent us this new remix of album debutants French Horn Rebellion. Match made in heaven? Almost, as close it can be.
Young Empires, the dance punk trio from Toronto, who've hit the charts and been hyped in the blogosphere lately (for example by us with six posts since May), are here with their latest remix. This time of Brooklyn duo French Horn Rebellion, who are about to release their full-length debut "The Infinite Music of French Horn Rebellion" November 15. "This Moment" is a single from that album, awesome funky tune that will keep you going. The remix is as great, with that Young Empires sound that we've learned to love.
French Horn Rebellion - This Moment (Young Empires Remix)
French Horn Rebellion - This Moment
Labels: French Horn Rebellion, Young Empires
Tracasseur Got Neonized Mixtape
Here's a new mixtape from us that we made exclusively along with an interview of us made by the great Spanish blog Neonized. If you haven't read the interview yet, head over to the interview at Neonized right away (if your Spanish isn't how it used to be, scroll down and you will find the interview in English).
You can find more mixtapes and videos from us playing under the new page "Tracasseur DJs" up to the right. It's a new feature!
Tracasseur - Tracasseur Got Neonized Mixtape
Labels: Mixtape, Tracasseur
Preview of Kris Menace's upcoming EP
Next week the maestro Kris Menace is up to release a new EP named "Masquerade". He's one of those guys that don't need any more presentation. But I can say that the release sounds very promising...
Preview of Kris Menace's "Masquerade" EP
Labels: Kris Menace
Exclusive track from HR's "Memory Chord" EP
In less than a week the longed EP of our beloved Norwegian italo queen HR is about to be released on one of our favourite labels Girlfriend Records, that hold acts like Pelifics, Neon Workout, Illapa, Le Prix and HR then of course.
On Saturday, September 18 "Memory Chord" is released to the masses. It will hold four original tracks and one remix by Neon Workout. But until Saturday will come, we got this exclusive track "Misery" that will be included on the EP for you to take a listen to. HR makes this wonderful nu italo with hints from the 80s but also from times like today. With "Misery" she shows you what I mean.
HR feat. mr Kitten - Misery [Tracasseur exclusive]
Labels: Girlfriend Records, HR, mr Kitten
Get "Senior" with Röyksopp
Norwegian masterminds of Röyksopp are back with the album "Senior". This album is the instrumental follow-up of last year's more intense "Junior". They say themselves that the "Senior" album got that "autumn feeling" whilst "Junior" had the "spring feeling". On "Junior" almost every track was featured by a vocalist, for example Robyn, Lykke Li and Karin Dreijer (Fever Ray & The Knife) now it's 100% instrumental.
Another thing about this new release is that they recorded it at the same time as "Junior" and they wanted it to be more mature and introspective. The atmospheric feeling they deliver with "Senior" is different from many other things they do in one way but on the other hand it's right up their alley. "Röyksopp Forever" from "Junior" is kind of close to the sound of "Senior" even if it's more dramatic. And we all know the depths of Röyksopp's great music knowledge and talent.
They've got that magic touch and have been with us for ten years now and still renew themselves with every new release. And they keep impressing us all the time, when we thought they reached the top of their career, they create something mind blowing and continues to climb on with their journey upwards until they reach the clouds and get to sit right next to God himself.
"Senior" will be released tomorrow September 13, but until then you can pre-listen the whole album down below and pre-order it here. Down below are also three tracks as mp3:s from the album, where I got my favourite one in "The Fear".
Röyksopp - The Fear
Röyksopp - Coming Home
Röyksopp - The Alcoholic
Here's a kind of odd but yet fantastic short film with the tracks from "Senior" included. Enjoy "Röyksopp's Adventures in Barbieland".
And as a bonus, "This Space" will not be included on the release. It was released earlier this year as "Track of the Month" for free at Röyksopp's site and it's a pearl.
Röyksopp - This Space
Labels: Royksopp, Röyksopp
Tracasseur on Teez FM
Tonight we're proud to announce that we have our premiere for our radio show on French internet radio station Teez FM. Teez stream music-only shows concentrating on pop and indie music in a broad sense. Our show, which is going to air every second Saturday of the month, will be our usual blend of nu disco and indie-electro. We'll also include tracks that we haven't posted, so even if you're an avid reader of our blog, there's a good chance we'll play something you haven't heard.
Tune in tonight at 19:00 CET (18:00 GMT / 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT - for your local time, check this site for example).
Listen through the official page here.
Listen directly in your media player here.
Labels: Teez FM, Tracasseur
Neonized interview
If you came running here to read an exciting interview with the guys behind excellent Spanish blog Neonized then I'm sorry to disappoint you. But if you'd like to know us a little better, they have an interview with us up (in Spanish and English). So, if you want you can read my interesting and thoughtful answers and Jonny's ramblings and download our brand new Tracasseur Got Neonized mixtape.
But before you go, here's Here We Are's latest remix of The Vanish, made together with The Amplid. Half of HWA is also part of Neonized, and happens to be the one who interviewed us, so please giggle a little at my dig at him towards the end of the interview.
The Vanish - Heartbeat (Here We Are vs. The Amplid Remix)
Labels: Here We Are, Neonized, The Amplid, The Vanish, Tracasseur
Uniforms remixed
We've already covered the excellent first release of excellent blog-turned-label French Express. Our favourites on a very strong compilation was Swedish duo Uniforms, who just had their new video released:
They have also been given some very nice remixing treatment by Danish Eumig & Chinon, who makes you think of guys like Breakbot, SebastiAn or why not Justice, and mysterious Australians Rainbows of Death, who we've been keeping tabs on since their awesome remix of Pocket 808, and who up until very recently didn't even have a MySpace page. On the other hand, who uses MySpace in the 10s, right?
Anyway, they're both acts that we hope we'll have the opportunity to get back to you about.
Uniforms - 1020 Trickery Lane (Eumig & Chinon Remix)
Uniforms - 1020 Trickery Lane (Rainbows of Death Vocal) (Removed by request)
Ginger Ninja - Sunshine (Eumig & Chinon Remix)
DATA/DEBT - California Special (Eumig & Chinon Remix)
Pocket 808 feat Nathan Hudson - Ghostship (Rainbow of Death Remix)
Please make sure to pick up the French Express Vol. 1 compilation on Beatport!
Labels: DATA-DEBT, Eumig and Chinon, French Express, Pocket 808, Rainbows of Death, Uniforms
Teaser and new remix from Justin Faust
Justin Faust just announced the release date of his next single "Sloppy Chic" to be out October 22 on roXour. What you can hear from this 30 sec teaser, is that the tune are going to be something huge. Preorder the release here along with b-side "Your Life" and a remix of Bestrack.
A couple of days ago we also received this new remix of our English fave-girl Florrie. Once again this collaboration flourishes, last time Justin Faust remixed "Panic Attack" with dash and now it's time for "Give Me Your Love" to be as superb.
Florrie - Give Me Your Love (Justin Faust Remix)
Florrie - Give Me Your Love
Labels: Florrie, Justin Faust
Beauty of Baths
Only 21 years old from Los Angeles, Will Wiesenfeld of Baths makes music so good you could think he was at least 40 years old. No, age has nothing to do with Baths, except the fact that he's young and really talented.
It's been a hype around Baths since the release of the album "Cerulean" this summer. It's a beautiful piece of album full with tweaky sounds and experimental voices. It's electronic down-tempo music that's going to fill your living-room with dreamy shades. Turn off the lights and close your eyes and get into Baths' music or get into your car and drive a long dark road accompanied of Baths in the speakers. But first of all, check out this wonderful video.
And here's a couple of tracks from "Cerulean" and some other ones. Buy the full release of "Cerulean" here.
Baths - Lovely Bloodflow
Baths - Aminals
Baths - Hall
Baths - Maximalist
Baths - Nordic Laurel
Fol Chen - In Ruins (Baths Remix)
Labels: Baths, Fol Chen
Swoon collection
"Swoon" is not a new track, but it's a damn good one. The first single out of The Chemical Brother's seventh studio album "Further" released in June. A lot of remixes has circled the internet and when I heard the fine Lindstrom and Prins Thomas remix the other night I felt it was time for Tracasseur to collect all the remixes of "Swoon".
The Boys Noize remix of "Swoon" brings back fantastic moments for the Tracasseur crew as it was a kind of anthem every night at the Dance Area at Exit Festival back in July.
The Chemical Brothers - Swoon
The Chemical Brothers - Swoon (Boys Noize Summer Mix)
The Chemical Brothers - Swoon (Lindstrom and Prins Thomas Remix)
The Chemical Brothers - Swoon (Don Diablo Remix)
The Chemical Brothers - Swoon (Blaze Tripp Remix)
The Chemical Brothers - Swoon (Elektropusher Remix)
The Chemical Brothers - Swoon (xKore Dubstep Remix)
Labels: Blaze Tripp, Boys Noize, Chemical Brothers, Don Diablo, Elektropusher, Lindstrom, Prins Thomas, xKore
Fuji Kureta
Fuji Kureta are a duo from Istanbul making downtempo electronica with vocals in both English and French. The members Sahin Kureta and Deniz Öztürk have been making music together since August 2008. Their music reminds me of some of Björk's songs mixed with something that Portishead and Trentemøller are up to. Interesting music with soft but strong melodies. So interesting that they in 2009 won "Best Electronica Act" award in Miller Music Factory Contest.
Fuji Kureta - Bonjour
Fuji Kureta - Hommage
Fuji Kureta - Toutes les Femmes
In late May Fuji Kureta released the EP "Sweets" on Gergaz Netlabel and you can download it for free at their site.
Labels: Fuji Kureta
Latest news from Heartbeats Management
Here are some of the latest news from one of the finest management and booking agency Heartbeats Management. Heartbeats is based in Barcelona and is run by Swede Sarah Hansson and she's doing an excellent job. The evidence of doing great stuff you can see by the roster of Heartbeats with acts as Fear of Tigers, Edwin Van Cleef, Worship, Bxentric, Clancy, Shelby Grey and Vicknoise. And now on to the latest news then:
News #1: Clancy & Build remix of LexiconDon
The dynamic duo of Clancy & Build are back with a danceable remix of LexiconDon's "Student Body" that is the second single from their newly released album "Pink + Blue". With a pumping beat, which they master superbly, they once again show the possibilities of this collaboration. LexiconDon's next single "Set Sail" will also be remixed by Clancy & Build and another Heartbeats fellow Worship. We'll let you know at the end of September.
LexiconDon - Student Body (Clancy & Build Remix)
News #2: Shelby Grey also remixes LexiconDon
Shelby Grey has also made a remix of LexiconDon's "Student Body". This remix is more into that tropical disco feeling.
LexiconDon - Student Body - Shelby Grey Tropical Disco mix by Shelby Grey
News #3: Bxentric are back with new stuff
Another dynamic duo are Bxentric and they are up to good stuff again. A month ago we posted their fine remix of Flight Facilities' "Crave You". Now their back with a new remix and a track of their own. Just love their funky basslines together with the jamming saxophone.
Bxentric - Complete
Louie Austen - Make Your Move - Bxentric Rmx by BXENTRIC
Labels: Build, Bxentric, Clancy, entric, Heartbeats Management, LexiconDon, Louie Austen, Shelby Grey
John Talabot in Sweden
The latest rising star from Barcelona is John Talabot and tonight he makes his debut on Swedish ground. It's the fine disco club of Glasnost in Uppsala, who once again comes up with a fine booking. Except ourselves acts like Disco Bloodbath (UK), Serge Santiago (UK), diskJokke (NO), In Flagranti (US) and Ben Rymer (UK) have visited earlier.
John Talabot has come forward with disco and house on Permanent Vacation and other similar labels. The Spanish magazine Go Mag voted his release "Sunshine" as best Spanish single of the year. His alias is still surrounded by a lot of mystic but according to some pretty certain sources he's resident DJ on one of Barcelona's best clubs and known under a different alias within the world of techno.
If you are in the surroundings of Uppsala you should come to Glasnost. Tracasseur will be there!
John Talabot - Sunshine
John Talabot - Matilda's Dream
Delorean - Seasun (John Talabot's Kids Drums Remix)
Glasser - Learn (John Talabot Remix)
If you think the poster above for the evening is great, I can tell you that it's really great and it's made by me :)
Labels: Delorean, Glasser, John Talabot
Steamin' hot remix from Danger of Acid Washed
While I was writing the last post about Anoraak we got another hot email from Record Makers that we just have to post immediately. It's a new Danger remix of the French duo Acid Washed self-titled track.
Acid Washed are as the write in the email "proud to announce the release of their eponymous 12" with remixes from The Hacker, Mickey Moonlight, Danger, Daniel Haaksman, Digikid84, Lazy Flow, Jungle Fiction and Stuff." And so they should, great song remixed by a bunch of great people. For example Danger, who needs no introduction, and his version of "Acid Washed". Pure good! Buy the whole release here.
Acid Washed - Acid Washed (Danger Remix)
Labels: Acid Washed, Danger
Anoraak remix of Neon Indian
Got this new Anoraak remix of an older Neon Indian track named "Psychic Chasms". But it doesn't matter if the original track is about one-year old old when the remix is Anoraakingtastic!
The remix is featured on a new deluxe edition release of Neon Indian's "Psychic Chasms" now named "Mind Ctrl: Psychic Chasms Possessed". It contains nine remixes or versions of the featured tracks, for example remixes of Yacht and Dntel. Get it here.
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (Anoraak Remix)
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Another thing that's Anoraakingtastic is the 360° video shot by Milosh Luczynski with 8 cameras to the first single "Above Your Head", a track that we posted a while back, from the delayed release of "Wherever the Sun Sets". New release date are set to September 21, still on naïve though.
Labels: Anoraak, Neon Indian
Rosie and Me
It's not the love story of Rosie and me Jonny Puma, but instead it's the name of a folk pop group from Brazil!! Yep, Rosie and Me are hailing from Brazil influenced of the American folk music making their sound a little more unique.
Now you're maybe wondering why the electronic music blog of Tracasseur writes about folk pop suddenly. The story is kind of sweet (maybe a love story...) and it started out when singer Rosie emailed us wanted to be reviewed on Tracasseur and telling us of their influences of likes as Bon Iver, Stars and Band of Horses. Me, listening to that kind of music also, took a listen and liked what I heard. Unfortunately it would be kind of wrong to post only folk pop on Tracasseur even if we really can post whatever we want.
So even if the post wouldn't be made I had to answer her and tell that I really liked what I heard but we couldn't post it regarding our electronic direction. But I also asked her if they got a remix made of some of their tracks, because then we could kind of go around the problem and posting the remix along with the original track as we often do with a lot of remixes. Hurrah, there were one remix!
So she sent over a remix of "Come Back" made by a French DJ named Benwa. So now we could make a post. "Come Back" is one of the tracks from their self-released EP "Bird and Whale" (buy it here) and it's a pearl all the way, especially if you're into folk pop with sweet introspective lyrics, catchy melodies and soft female vocals. So now it's Rosie and Me...
Rosie and Me - Come Back (Benwa's Remix)
Rosie and Me - Come Back
"Har du varit STYGG?"
"Have you been bad?" is what the headline say in Swedish. And it's from Sweden the duo STYGG are. It's been quiet from STYGG for quite a while since the released their great track "Lunacy" in the early 2009. But now Johan Bring and David Strindberg are back with their new single "Sleep" released on Trewetha Records and available on iTunes and Spotify along with four remixes.
STYGG - Sleep
STYGG - Sleep (Kungen & Hertigen Remix)
STYGG - Sleep (The Integrals Remix)
And speaking of the older track "Lunacy" here's a fine video directed by themselves with their producing agency Punx Sthlm along with the track and a remix. At their MySpace there are some other fine tracks to take a listen to.
STYGG - Lunacy
STYGG - Lunacy (Body In The Thames Disco Diablo Mix)
Labels: Kungen and Hertigen, STYGG, The Integrals


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Song Names -> Add a Letter To a Song Title -> Z, Page 1
Add one letter out of a song title to change it's meaning. The addition of the letter should still form a word, and the title should be humorous as a result. You CAN NOT add S to the end of a word to make it plural.
For example: Nine Inch Nails's "Help Me I'm In Hell" would become "Help Me I'm In Shell"
Entries Beginning with Z, Page 1
"The Zoom," Scorpions originally "The Zoo"
Calvin Amari
"Zoom Music Girl," Birthday Party originally "Zoo Music Girl"
Amber D'Allesio
"The Zookeeper's Buoy," Mew originally "The Zookeeper's Boy"
Holly Stefan
"The Zookeeper's Bony," Mew originally "The Zookeeper's Boy"
Many of the animals could easily knock him over!
"The Zookeeper's Body," Mew originally "The Zookeeper's Boy"
"Zoot Suite Riot," Cherry Poppin' Daddies originally "Zoot Suit Riot"
Wendy Torrance
"Zoot Suit Rivot," Cherry Poppin' Daddies originally "Zoot Suit Riot"
But, why would put rivots in it, anyway?
Jonaphantom
If you have a creative/humorous idea, please submit it.

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Showing 6 items matching ycw campaigns
Young Christian Workers (YCW Australia) Archive and Research Centre
YCW Leaders' Programme Booklets 1944 - 1948, YCW National Executive, YCW Leaders' Programme, 1944 - 1948
... YCW Campaigns.... YCW Campaigns YCW National Executive ...
In 1944 the YCW launched its first national campaign. These campaigns were supported by Leaders' Programme booklets, produced by the National Executive and sent to the leaders of all parish branches around the country. With these Programme guides, leaders were asked to shepherd members through the campaign over a period of months. In this collection, the booklets cover: The Mass; Communism; Family; Home; Social Responsibility. Series of six booklets.ycw campaigns
NCGM and YCW Boys Photographs
... their members, for example during the YCW's apprenticeship campaign YCW... apprenticeship campaign YCW Boys looked at the topic of labourers ...
In the early stage of the Australian Young Christian Workers Movement the male and female members were separated into NCGM and YCW Boys. This was a reflection of society at the time as both groups campaigned on different youth realities to reflect their members, for example during the YCW's apprenticeship campaign YCW Boys looked at the topic of labourers and airport personal, while NCGM campaigned for changes to hairdressing apprenticeships. 9 black and white photos from the National Catholic Girls Movement's (NCGM) Easter float parade, and YCW Boys social events. ycw, ncgm, ycw boys, social change, catholic action, national catholic girls' movement, apprenticeship, photographs, easter
Scrapbook of Road Safety Campaign newspaper clippings, Peter Cox, Journal Collins 4394, 1970-1973
... to document the reach the YCW Road Safety Campaign had in State wide... campaign undertaken by the YCW in the 1960-1970s was headed ...
Past YCW member Peter Cox created this scrapbook to document the reach the YCW Road Safety Campaign had in State wide newspapers from 1970-1973. The campaigned advocated for youth education and public enforcement on wearing of seatbelts, drink driving limits, Australia's drinking culture and decreasing the Victorian road toll.The road safety campaign undertaken by the YCW in the 1960-1970s was headed by Peter Cox.Rectangle bound book, with brown felt edging and blue leather middle. 200 pages, with 114 pages used for pasting various newspaper clippingsJournal Collins 4394the herald, scrapbook, ycw, bendigo, drinking, road safety, sandhurst, the sun, youth movements, the advocate, road toll
Sunday Sport Campaign Collection 1959 - 1961, 1959 to 1962
Between 1959 and 1962, the Melbourne YCW (Boys) participated in local campaigns to allow sports to be played on municipal ovals on a Sunday. A key battleground was in the suburb of Camberwell in 1959. This collection of material relates to the campaign and includes newspaper clippings, leaflets and internal reports and memos. It is a sample of the materials held in collection (Contact the Archive to access MO_4_24). It features materials produced by the YCW and other parties involved in the campaign. The debate around Sunday sport campaign revealed Victoria's growing suburban sporting culture, the developing concept of youth, and the YCW position on leisure as a break from work rather than 'dour' Sabbatarianism. Discoloured newspaper clippings and documents. Some with sharp cut edges and others attached to non-related articles.
Enba Newsletters, YCW (Girls), Enba, 1963/64
Enba was a newsletter produced by the Melbourne Executive of the YCW (Girls) distributed to members in the Melbourne Diocese in 1963 - 1965.Throughout its history, the YCW movement produced numerous publications for members and for the wider community. Some of these were regular papers or newsletters with high production values. Others were short lived efforts, produced 'in house' on low budgets. Reading across the collections, these public expressions of YCW communication provide insight into the movement's methods, the concerns of young women and men of the period, and how these shifted over time and across location. Enba contains references to campaigns on work; reports from branches in the city of Melbourne including sport and social events; profiles of Diocesan Executive Members and Presidents; letters from Chaplains including a report from Fr Brian Burke; dates regarding Pre-Cana Seminars and Summer Schools. Five editions of newsletter
International Schedule 1965, Bangkok
From 1957, the International YCW held a world council every four years. This document is the proposed schedule for the Third World Council which was held in Bangkok in 1965.The document offers a glimpse into the workings of the YCW on a global scale. It also explores the international campaigns and the and proposes an agenda and schedule for the fourteen day meeting comprising young delegates from all over the world. Nine page typewritten and copied document on yellow paperycw, iycw, world council


Turns out that speculations about a Foxconn expansion to USA were real, since Terry Gou, the company's president claims that he's ready for a partnership. Foxconn Technology Group thanked the recently formed White House Office of American Innovation, for the efforts to form a joint initiative.
Foxconn is the biggest maker of electronic products in the world, scoring partnerships with quite a few companies all over the world. They make iPhones, consoles and an impressive amount of laptops. A series of investments are planned by Foxconn in USA and job creation will indeed happen. The Taiwanese firm's delegation met with President Trump and we could finally see an Apple factory happening in the end.
Foxconn has over 1 million employees in China and I imagine they could create several tens of thousands of jobs in the States too, if not hundreds of thousands. Reports from late last year showed that Apple was approaching companies like Foxconn and Pegatron to move operations in USA. However, this may double the cost of the iPhone, which is a problem. Trump promised to cut some taxes if Apple complies, but I doubt they'll compensate for extra costs.
Meanwhile Foxconn takes advantage of Sharp's purchase to enter new areas and they may even create a solid production line for OLED panels. This would benefit Apple, letting them get loose a bit from the Samsung cooperation.


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What happens when your new show is in trouble
We're at the time of year when networks are beginning to cancel new shows. No matter how successful you are, at one time or another you will find yourself in this position. My heart goes out to all of you showrunners currently going through this.
I don't mean to discourage anybody, and when new shows go well then life is golden. But for people going through a struggling newcomer, or anyone who wants a look behind the curtain of how high-stakes television really works, here's what it's like:
Everything was so great at the start. You flew to New York for the upfronts. Lavish parties, the network president lauding your show as the next huge hit. Drinks with your stars. A total lovefest.
Then you went to work. That network that praised you to the heavens now questions every decision you make. Story notions are thrown out. Outlines are rejected. First drafts are met with voluminous notes. One of the stars you had drinks with you now have to fire because she didn't test to the network's liking.
Production begins and the notes increase. Network approval now extends to all casting and editing decisions.
You start falling behind. You realize you wasted several weeks of pre-production preparing an outline that ultimately got rejected. You wasted more time just waiting to hear back on stories and scripts you sent them.
But everybody on the cast and crew is still relatively happy. Everyone likes everyone else. It's exciting. Hope burns eternal that indeed this will become the next big thing. And everyone has steady employment (at least for the moment). On-air promos have begun. Ads appear in magazines. One of your cast members goes on Conan. It's all good.
Then the reviews come out. You focus on the good ones, but the cast focuses on the bad ones. You now have shaky actors you have to talk off the ledge.
Meanwhile, the network gets instantly nervous and decides the direction of the show is the problem. So they begin rejecting scripts that had already been approved. Now you're really scrambling – trying to make a midcourse correction based on a consensus of executives.
The show premiers. The ratings are disappointing. You look for any positive sign. It finished in only 3rd place in Houston. The DVR numbers will surely propel you to the top 10. But those numbers are underwhelming too. The cast is understandably panicked. You spend a lot of time on the stage putting out fires. But it's time you can ill afford because you're practically starting from scratch on scripts. All lead time has evaporated – most of it spent futilely on scripts that are scrapped. You're working around the clock, seven days a week. You haven't had a day off since August. You haven't eaten a decent meal since July. You haven't had a good night's sleep since June.
But it's only the first week. Things could still turn around. Maybe... possibly.
Week two – the numbers are worse. They even slipped in Houston. Still, the good news is you're starting to have a handle on the show. Trouble is, there are six episodes in the can before these new better shows can air. IF they air.
You seek desperately for any positive. A tweet someone wrote, a compliment from your mother's second cousin. Originally, in reviews you were hoping they'd say "brilliant" and now you'd gladly settle for "promising."
For weeks you couldn't wait for your show to actually begin airing. Now you dread it. Each new episode could be a lethal punch to your gut.
You are trapped in a nightmare. And it becomes clear your show has no future. But you still have to make them. You still have to write till 4 a.m. You still have to reassure the cast. You still have to recast that sales clerk because the network rejected her. A director you had signed for next month wants out because he got a chance to do a show that got decent ratings. The network insists you reshoot a scene. Your star was slated to co-host a holiday parade on your network but they just dropped her. She won't come out of her trailer. The table reading for the next show tanks. The cast hates the new direction. You have to do a page one rewrite for an episode you know will never air.
And then – finally – the CALL (or today, maybe the text). You've been cancelled. How do I describe the sensation? It's like you're skydiving, hurtling towards the earth, and then suddenly your parachute opens. Whooooosh! Ahhhhhhh! You float. You're at peace.
All script work just ends. You may have to finish filming the episode on the stage (and that's a treat, lemme tell you as someone who has directed several "last" episodes). But basically it's done. No more scripts in the pipeline to write. No more pipeline. Yes, you're sad but there will be time to grieve later and second-guess decisions that led to this, but for now your sole emotion is just RELIEF. What's your next career move? Where do you go from here? You don't care. Not at that moment. All you know if that you no longer have to do THIS.
Fond goodbyes and hugs. You feel bad for everyone in the crew. They'll now have to get other jobs. But they will. And so will you. But not before you sleep for a month.
Again, I feel bad for anyone going through this. We've all done it. Just be proud that you created a show that got on a major broadcast network. Very few people can ever say that. And your next one will be better because of the experience. You will be a much better showrunner. You'll have a better sense of how to solve problems. And you'll figure out what went wrong and avoid those mistakes the next time around.
For now, take a nap.
Most of the network executives are idiots. They need to step back and let people do what they do unless they suck at it. More importantly, they need to let people find a show before cancelling it. "Manhattan Love Story" deserved more time and a better fate.
Amazing how there is no time for course correction. You have four shows in the can and start to figure out how to fix some of the holes in the characters and storylines, but those fixes never see the light of day because you're cancelled after show four. Crazy business. Makes what Nik Wallenda does look safer and saner. The obvious problem is network interference and impatience, and network executives insecurity. Three things that aren't going away.
Scooter Schechtman said...
"Seinfeld" had a story arc about this, though the focus was on the crazy actors and crazy Costanzas.
(listening to RichBro Radio at this time and it's currently in a real booger-patch of early 60s Frankie Avalon and Lou Christie. Beatles too expensive?)
ScottyB said...
Ken wrote: "And you'll figure out what went wrong and avoid those mistakes the next time around."
Seems to me that a lot of those "mistakes" come from the suits, not because there's been a basic, glaring "mistake" in the showrunning, or the scripts -- altho that's not to say the landscape is littered with examples of those. The vast majority of network sitcoms are completely dreadful, and IMO that's because those shows are what the network WANTS, for some sick reason that defies all logic.
But still, it seems to me that you're *going* to get cancelled someday one day, so just make the best of it in the time you've been gifted, do the best job you can under the circumstances, collect your check and be glad you got the opportunity to actually be working in a cutthroat industry. And really, how many great actors and showrunners got noticed for great work they did on shitty shows and end up in shows that became great or near-great?
crackblind said...
Just curious if you have a take on the WGAE vs. ITV fight that's going on over Neil Patrick Harris' variety show. I've only seen coverage of it on the Guardian's website, nothing here in the US.
Ken Said:
"Just be proud that you created a show that got on a major broadcast network. Very few people can ever say that."
That's like telling someone after he fell off a steep cliff, "Just be proud that you were flying. You broke the bounds of earth. Very few people can ever say that."
-Arnie
Les said...
This brings up a question: Has a Showrunner ever filmed his or her show exactly as they wanted to do it before all the network notes and interference to demonstrate that their show was better left alone (even if shot with just crappy camera to keep the costs down?) And then just said to the network A or B? Seems like it would a Showrunner's dream.
The lead actors in "A to Z" are extremely appealing. (He's best known as a troubled copywriter on "Mad Men," and she was amazing in the thankless role as the ill-fated mother on "How I Met Your Mother.) The leads on "Manhattan Love Story" are appealing too. It would be a shame if they end up bouncing around from show to show until something catches on, the way many other recognizable actors do.
Les, I believe Ken has done a post in the past about BIG WAVE DAVE'S in which he mentioned because it was a summer show on very tight schedule, he was able to get the network to agree not to give him and his partner any notes.
There's a country song buried in your post somwehwere Ken.
Curt Alliaume said...
I liked the two episodes of A to Z that I saw. My feeling, however, is that while romantic comedies work well on the big screen, they tend to work poorly on television. Most tend to be open-ended (will they or won't they?), and audiences aren't willing to wait around for the payoff. The two shows addressed here are gone; there were a bunch of similar shows in the 1990s (Love and War, Hearts Afire, It Had to Be You, If Not For You, Duet). The only one that made it was Mad About You - partially because it picked up the story six months after the lead characters were married (e.g. what happens after happily ever after?).
"Too many cooks spoil the broth".
It all comes down to this.
Even if all the network execs, studio suits, development people, and actual cooks who nowadays give notes on scripts were ALL world-class storytellers, the final product from such a committee would be at best bland, and at worst what it usually is, awful.
Oh, and BTW, NONE of the people listed above are world-class storytellers, or they would be making mint telling world class stories.
Okay, maybe some of the cooks...
A to Z is cancelled. Now I'll never know how he alphabet turns out.
Agree that "A to Z" had appealing characters, but getting them together at the end of the first episode pretty much killed any anticipation, and the dating stories that followed, particularly the funeral with the bizarre and unreal family members (including the buddhist-chanting Uncle) stretched the bounds of credulity, especially when you had two people we really liked, and you let the action overwhelm them, rather than a simple, small conflict that's relatable.
Again, Ken, inexperienced show-runners, who don't know how to turn life experience into great scripts.
Norman Lear succeeded because he always had older, experienced writers around to help the younger, culturally aware, hipper writers.
My God! How does ANYONE have the courage to go into this business?
After reading this blog for several months, I feel such gratitude that creative, smart, talented people are willing to put up with this kind of torture to bring us shows like Cheers, which has brought so much enjoyment to my life. But for the love of heaven, it shouldn't be this hard!
Ouch. Welcome to Hollywood. Thanks for that honest and unflinching look into the world of a showrunner. Astonishing that people survive it -- God knows how you manage if they don't cancel you!
I remember Larry David talking in an interview about how he literally fell on his bed and wept when Seinfeld got renewed for a full season.
You can add Love & Money to the list of very short-lived romantic comedies - the only cast member I recall from it was Brian Doyle-Murray as the father of the female lead.
As for the agonies of first getting and then keeping a series on the air: I'm reminded of what Hyman Roth says to Michael Corleone: "This is the business we've chosen!"
Meanwhile, the network gets instantly nervous and decides the direction of the show is the problem. So they begin rejecting scripts that had already been approved.
I guess it's all relative. You have network executives who think they know more than the creative team. We have politicians who think they know more than Ebola doctors and climate change scientists. Kinda puts the network executive problem in perspective.
The problem I had with A TO Z was that the supporting characters were awful - it felt like someone had lifted them right out of David Mamet's play SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO (which was made into the Hollywood movie ABOUT LAST NIGHT...), but without the cynical charm. The male friend in particular seemed like a low-rent version of the friend in REAPER (who went on to be the best friend in the short-lived MAD LOVE).
I think romantic comedy works best on TV when it isn't the main story. Will and Alicia on THE GOOD WIFE spring to mind.
Agree about MAD ABOUT YOU. And in later seasons, when they got away from showing the two of them figure out their lives together, the show wasn't nearly as good.
Metal Mickey said...
I've always been dismissive of showrunners of cancelled programmes (not usually comedies to be honest) when they leave us hanging with an unfinished story, but this piece made me realise how awful it must be for all concerned - nice work, sir.
There is always a new door open for those whose shows were cancelled. It's unfortunate that network eexecutives are just looking at the ratings and don't give a show to develop. They probably don't even watch their shows. There are really shows not worth watching, like Ken said they should be thankful their show was given a chance to be broadcast in a major network.
in my native country (Sweden), the system is quite different, but not necessarily better. I was the creator/showrunner of a comedy in the early 90s, and in the middle of pre-production, the show order went from 8 episodes to 16 without any additional budget or shooting time.
We had managed to snag two amazing actors for the leads (today, the male lead is generally seen as Sweden's number one comic actor), but the doubling of the material and an inexperienced director who was intimidated by working with two fairly big names meant that everything was under-rehearsed while the tight shooting schedule meant that retakes were essentially out the window.
Those two weeks of shooting were probably the lowest point of my life; watching our undercooked scripts get misinterpreted and things going slowly - but quite surely - off the rails because very few people involved in the production even knew what we were trying to do was excruciating when only six monhs ago, I thought that I would be able to come fairly close to me rather eclectic vision.
I left the TV business shortly after that and I haven't looked back.
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Talk about a cliffhanger...


OFF LEIK ISLAND, Myanmar (REUTERS) - Myanmar's navy briefly detained and turned back journalists on Sunday near a migrant boat being held off the country's southern coast, according to Reuters witnesses, as officials remained guarded over what would be done with the people on board.
Before being turned away, Reuters reporters saw hundreds of migrants - some rake thin - crammed on the deck of the converted Thai fishing boat that had been intercepted in the Andaman Sea on Friday and held in the waters off Leik island.
Some were sat on two of the four Myanmar navy vessels standing off the fishing boat, which had been discovered carrying 727 migrants.
A naval officer, who declined to be named because he was not authorised to speak to the media, said the boat had been found drifting at sea with no fuel or anchor, and was taking on water. "Their water pump was broken. If we hadn't found them, they may have died," the officer said.
The government initially labeled the migrants "Bengalis" - a term used to refer to both stateless Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis - but officials later said they believed most of those on board were from Bangladesh.
Myanmar has come under harsh criticism for its treatment of Rohingya, more than 100,000 have fled persecution and poverty in Rakhine State in 2012.
More than 4,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshis have landed in rickety boats throughout Southeast Asia in the last month following a crackdown on human trafficking in Thailand.
Myanmar's sensitivity over the migrant crisis was evident by the way its navy responded to the arrival of the journalists' boat.
At one stage, a sailor leaned over the rail of a navy boat to point his rifle at the approaching journalists. Reporters from Reuters and other foreign media were questioned and made to delete pictures and videos before they were ordered to return.
Myanmar officials have given little information on what it intends to do with the migrants.
Government spokesman Ye Htut said: "They are still on the boat. We are providing them with the necessary humanitarian assistance." Officials have said the boat would possibly be taken to Rakhine State, in the country's west, or to neighbouring Bangladesh.


Bali bombing survivors have expressed mixed emotions about the making of a television movie based on AFL footballer Jason McCartney's book about the tragedy.
The Nine Network has announced it would turn Mr McCartney's book "After Bali" into a major television movie.
Some Bali survivors feared the film would focus too closely on Mr McCartney and sensationalise the tragedy which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, on October 12, last year.
Melbourne survivor Lynley Huguenin said she was concerned the movie would focus on Mr McCartney's story and neglect other victims and survivors' experiences.
"I think everyone had their own recollections of things and I don't think one person's story, whether they are a profiled person, gives an overall account of that night," she said.
"I'd prefer to see it done as a non-fiction documentary rather than being based on one single account." Adelaide Magistrate Brian Deegan, whose 22-year-old son Josh died in the bombings, said he hoped the makers of the movie did not sensationalise the story or ignore other victims and survivors.
"Jason McCartney would no doubt realise that there are a multitude of people that have been affected by this and let's hope the producers realise that," he said.
Melbourne father David "Spike" Stewart, whose son Anthony died in the Sari nightclub, said he trusted Mr McCartney to tell the story respectfully.
"My feeling is that I'd rather it is done with someone I know and trust and I know it's going to be done properly," he said.
Perth survivor Peter Hughes was holidaying with the retired AFL footballer when they were both badly injured by the blasts.
Mr Hughes' book "Back from the Dead" will also be used in the movie.
He said he had heard that other overseas television networks were considering making a movie and believed it would be better if the story was told by Australian survivors.
"They are going to do a movie whether it's (with) Jason or me," Mr Hughes said.
"Wouldn't it be better that we do it than they do it.
"Jason McCartney and myself, we were there, we had to fight for our lives."


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Marshall Glasier (1902 - 1988)
Birth date: 1902 Death date: 1988
Birth location: Wauwatosa, WI Death location: New York City, NY
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Marshall Glasier
Marshall Glasier (1902-1988) was an artist best known for his work that combined Regionalism and Surrealism. The result, commonly referred to as magic realism, took the figurative and narrative approach of the Regionalists and the mystery, humor, and irony of Surrealism.
Glasier was born in Wauwatosa, but raised in Madison. He was not a great student, but showed an early interest in drawing. Glasier credits his status as a twin to his artistic pursuits as an adult. They were commonly mistaken for the other, and on at least one occasion Marshall took the punishment meant for his twin brother. He was quoted, "Later I was to realize that my being an artist was a continual search for an identity, since I was never sure of having one."
He continued producing art after high school as he bounced around art programs. He started at the University of Wisconsin, but didn't last long. Then Glasier spent time at the Chicago Art Institute, but never received a degree. During this time, he was engaged to be married, but his fiancé left him and married his best friend. His ensuing sadness led him to enlist in the Marines in 1924. After his four years of service, he returned to civilian life, but was still unsure about his career track. He seemed to find a certain degree of success in commercial art until the Great Depression hit. His stylized drawings led one ad executive to give him some advice: go back to school and develop a more natural drawing style. He heeded that advice and studied with George Grosz in the Art Student's League. After six years in New York, Glasier returned home to Madison to apply his education in a different setting. He went about capturing the Wisconsin landscape in a fresh and cosmopolitan way.
In Madison, Glasier had attracted a group of local artists and students who appreciated his brand of art. In the Midwest art scene, his works stood in strong contrast to that of John Steuart Curry—a well-known Regionalist painter and University of Wisconsin's Artist in Residence from 1936-1946. They each had a very different philosophy and approach, and Glasier regularly depicted Curry as a member of the 'old guard'. Glasier would hold informal salons where they would discuss not only art, but politics, music, and literature. As his group got bigger, it also included people from Milwaukee and Chicago. Notable members of this group include Gertrude Abercrombie, John Wilde, Karl Priebe, Dudley Huppler, and Sylvia Fein. Glasier enjoyed these salons as a way to exchange ideas with people from all different backgrounds. When the group couldn't get together at any of their studios or homes, they exchanged letters almost daily. For some of the younger members, Glasier was a sort of father figure who encouraged them to develop their own style. Sylvia Fein said that he helped teach her "how to draw my own personal way and how to draw while transforming and taming nature and human nature."
Wisconsin Artists' Biennial Exhibitor
Wisconsin Salon of Art
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New Great Redwood Trail signage, with the above design, will be installed in communities along the former railroad line in the coming months, state Sen. Mike McGuire announced.
In a press conference this morning, state Sen. Mike McGuire announced that the legislature has included $16.5 million toward the "Great Redwood Trail" — the planned hiking trail along the 300-mile abandoned rail line between San Rafael and Humboldt County — in the upcoming state budget.
McGuire, who sponsored the 2018 legislation that transformed the purpose of the North Coast Railroad Authority, the public agency that managed the disused railroad, said the funding represented a "historic" moment in the effort to transition the right-of-way to a trail system.
"This really is the transformational day that we've been talking about for years on end," McGuire said. "To be able to create the trail network that will connect two parts of the state — from the sparkling waters of Humboldt Bay to the busy bay waters in San Francisco."
McGuire said that $10 million of the monies budgeted will be spent to develop a master plan for the conversion of the line. The plan will analyze the costs of physically converting the right-of-way to meet transportation needs along various segments of the trail, and of maintaining those lines, in addition to funding outreach to and engaging with landowners along the path of the trail.
The remainder of the budgeted money will be used to fund the legal process of railbanking with the federal Surface Transportation Board, and to improve railroad operations on the very southern end of the line, in Marin and Sonoma counties, where passenger and freight rail operations are expected to continue alongside the new trail.
In addition to announcing the funding, McGuire this morning unveiled the design of signage that will be placed along the trail. He said that signs should be going up in communities along the line later this summer.
Throughout, McGuire acknowledged that the actual construction of the entire length of the trail is still a very long way off. A preliminary study delivered to the legislature last year placed potential costs at somewhere between $1 billion and $5 billion. But as representatives from Marin, Mendocino and Humboldt counties noted in the press conference this morning, parts of the trail that pass through urban centers have already been built, and more are currently under construction.
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Razer Huntsman Elite Review (2018)
Four years ago, Razer created it's own propriety switches instead of making use of the Cherry MX switches that are common scenes on keyboards nowadays. So Razer did a little bit of upgrading on these switches for a new series of gaming keyboard known as the Razer Huntsman & Razer Huntsman Elite.
The latest of this series is the Razer Huntsman Elite gaming keyboard, the most expensive gaming keyboard till date. It competes for head to head with the K95 RGB Platinum mechanical gaming keyboard for the same cost. This might get people wondering, several questions popping into their minds:
Why did razer come out with such an expensive mechanical gaming keyboard???
If you think about it, the market is way too choked up at this point that makes it quite difficult to differentiate one keyboard from another unless you're looking for a specific feature.
Razer is launching the Huntsman elite by focusing on three key areas and they are:
3 Key Features
Speed and Performance with the help of their newly designed Razer opto mechanical switch
The second being comfort and aesthetics
The last is being a little bit of flair with chroma RGB lighting.
Don't want to read Check out the video Razer Huntsman Elite Review
We're going to be reviewing the new razer huntsman elite gaming keyboard. So before you go over to the store to get one, it would be better to know beforehand what you want to spend such an exorbitant amount on. Part of what we'll go over designs, the pros and cons, talk about the experiences garnered in its use.
The razer huntsman elite combines many of the popular design choices of razer's last few keyboard lines and what is said to be their best keyboard yet. So while checking the razer Huntsman elite gaming keyboard, you'll notice the difference between the standard huntsman keyboard and the latest elite.
The difference between them is that the standard Huntsman doesn't come with dedicated media playback buttons and also a detachable wrist rest with the underglow.
But rest aside, it's basically the same keyboard and it comes with the same brand new razer opto-mechanical switch. The difference in price is one hundred and fifty US dollars($150) versus two hundred($200)
Owing to the Razer's company frameless design, the Huntsman elite is actually the smallest keyboard they've made. It is compact which means it doesn't take much space on the desk. And it has a simpler design with a higher quality than the previous series of keyboards by the company.
The first thought anyone would get after unboxing it is that the keycap font is pretty. It is simple, nothing aggressive. And that should sum up the entire thought about the keyboard's appearance as a whole.
The gaming keyboard really doesn't look like a Razer keyboard. It is very modern looking, there are rounded edges now and there's not even a Razer logo on the keyboard itself. It only appeared only on the wrist rest.
But hi, of course, once you plug it in, the lights start shining away and yes, it has a familiar Razer glow and there's a new light strip around the entire keyboard.
One thing you would notice on the right-hand side of the keyboard is something that people have been asking for from Razer for years now but they've always excluded it.
It's something that most people always look for in gaming keyboards. And finally, the Razer Huntsman elite has dedicated multimedia keys plus a new multimedia dial. But it doesn't end their cos this volume wheel which encompasses several functions.
Talk about the media controls which houses three programmable circular keys to play, pause, rewind or fast forward music files, and a wheel or the ridged dial or multimedia dial which features a mute button in its center.
The volume wheel or dial is stationed at the top right side of the keyboard. The moment you start moving it, you will notice that the lighting in the inner ring turns to white and the intensity increases as the volume rises.
The Huntsman elite is not just said to be the best Razer gaming keyboard so far, it has several features other Razer keyboards lack. And the addition of the discrete media controls places it on a higher level than others.
The main point of attraction in the Huntsman elite is the opto mechanical switch. The technology behind this design is pretty interesting. If a cap is popped out of the Huntsman elite, you'll see the mechanism.
It is a purple switch that is joined with a metal spring and a plastic cylinder at the back. The opto mechanical switch creates a great mechanical action for both gaming and typing alike.
It makes the Huntsman elite very fast and accurate unlike the typewriters or other mechanical keyboards that rely on the mechanical switch. So accurate typing and rapid key response are associated with the Huntsman elite.
Now before we move on, speaking of comfort, they do include a wrist rest for the elite version. It adds to the build quality of the keyboard making it feel solid and tactile.
It is a pretty soft cushion material that resembles leather and is deftly comfortable, so that's a plus. It's like a pillow for your wrist, and who doesn't like that.
The wrist rest is amazing in a way that it makes both typing and gaming easy and extremely comfortable. It offers a plushy support for the hands.
It, however, increases the size of the keyboard but it could be detached. A magnetic connection makes the keyboard and the wrist rest stay connected, regardless of whether the Huntsman elite is propped up or flat.
There is, however, a strange feature with the wrist rest and that is the "underglow backlighting" Once the wrist rest is connected, there occurs a LED strip that runs through the underside of the wrist rest. The light also could be synced with the rest of the keyboard, giving it a flashy effect.
But the problem with it is that it doesn't direct light to a place that is very easy to see. So you can't actually see the "flashy effect", well unless the room is dark.
Unfortunately, the wrist rest comes with a cost. To power it to work, it needs to be connected through a contact port which means that the Huntsman elite requires two different USB ports, a second connection. And a USB pass-through is missing which really affected the quality expected from a gaming keyboard worth so much dollars.
As well as the USB pass-through, the audio pass-through is missing, and the removal of the macro keys means no macros except from the reprogrammable media controls which are situated at the top right side of the keyboard and aren't convenient for use while gaming or typing.
The standard Huntsman also featured the chroma lighting, but the Huntsman elite is more of a step up from other chroma trials. As stated earlier, the keyboard has lights that ran through all the unit and the wrist rest provided an underglow lighting; the flashy effect.
One thing I mentioned about the Huntsman elite, in the beginning, was aesthetics. The chroma lighting provides a pleasing effect particularly when you're playing a game that supports chroma lighting synchronization software. The design strikingly beautiful and this expected from a two hundred dollars worth gaming keyboard.
Razor is not the first peripheral brand to make an optical switch keyboard. But the opto-mechanical switch is much upgraded that it turns out to be unique and faster than others running on the optical switch. It moves with the speed of light estimated at one hundred and eighty-six thousand(186,000) miles per second.
One thing the Razer company successfully did was to model the mechanical aspects of their key switch after the best qualities of its competitors. In essence, they capitalized on their competitors' best qualities and upgraded them to the peak. It includes the clock feedback of MX Cherry Blue and Razer Green switches, and also the 45g actuation force of MX Cherry Reds.
According to Razer, the opto-mechanical switch actuated thirty percent(30%) faster than a traditional mechanical switch. Instead of an optical switch, Razer opted for the mechanical click that works in relation with the optical sensor. This gives gamers a faster actuation and a satisfying gaming experience.
Talking about actuation, it is immediate and there occurs a noticeable difference when playing games like Starcraft, Overwatch, Doom, and so on. Here, the speed associated with the Huntsman Elite is unleashed.
While playing these games, a faster actuation makes the character's movements a bit faster. You could move effortlessly, shoot, duck, lean or peek so swiftly you'd love the feeling.
Also, alongside a good gaming experience, typing on the keyboard feels good. The opto-mechanical combines optical switches and mechanical actuation to make the keys move swiftly and bounce back for another press. The reset distance is really short and this facilitates rapid key responses.
The keyboard makes it seem as if you're typing twice as fast as you used to. Well, before getting a mastery of the keyboard, it could take a while. But after that, you go swiftly on the keyboard as fast as you can ever imagine. The opto-mechanical switch gives satisfying audible and tactile clicks which are sometimes omitted in even the fastest of keyboards.
The Huntsman Elite also is said to last through one hundred million(100,000,000) clicks. So that goes a long way to say it's durable. This means Razer has double the number of clicks which was at fifty million(50,000,000).
Efficient mechanical actions for both typing and gaming.
Clean design with the excellent build quality
Chroma RGB lighting at its peak
Comfortable wrist rest
Configurable volume and discrete media keys
No USB pass-through
Requires two USB ports
No macros
Guru's Verdict
The Razer Huntsman Elite is currently the most expensive gaming keyboard alongside the K95 RGB Platinum. However, it has achieved a high point and gives users the best keyboard experience. Typing and gaming have never been so easy and full of joy.
The Razer Huntsman Elite is one of the first gaming keyboards to combine the use of the novel optical technology and multiple mechanical switches.
It is a fantastically quick keyboard that runs on opto-mechanical switches. The speed of light associated with the Huntsman elite because sending keyboard signals over a relatively short time. It has delivered the best typing experiences there is.
The optical system, as well as its own shortcomings as all the keys, produce their own laser. That makes a total of one hundred and four(104) individual beams of light on the Huntsman Elite. This process consumes a lot of energy and as well requires two USB ports every single time to work perfectly.
Razer happens to be the first to use for optical light sensors keyboards and it is obvious that the company has spent so much to bring such beauty as the Huntsman Elite into the market. And so far, it was worth it.
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Accounts of rape, burning children and murder
Updated November 13, 2017 3:01 a.m. EST
By Rebecca Wright (CNN)
(CNN) — Discarded and left for dead, Mumtaz says she found herself on top of a mound of charred, entangled bodies.
"They killed and killed and piled the bodies up high. It was like cut bamboo," says Mumtaz, a Rohingya woman from the village of Tula Toli in western Myanmar.
"In the pile there was someone's neck, someone's head, someone's leg. I was able to come out, I don't know how."
The horrors Mumtaz says she endured didn't stop there. After escaping the mass grave, Mumtaz says she was dragged to a village house and raped by soldiers. The wooden house was then locked and set on fire.
It was her seven-year-old daughter Razia, who was in the hut, that ultimately saved her.
"I called to my mum. And my mum said, 'who are you?,'" Razia says. "My mother's head was split. She was thrown aside. They struck me and threw me aside."
"I said 'your finger is on fire.' Then my mum and I got out and left."
The pair squeezed through a damaged part of a fence and hid in a vegetable patch, before other villagers found them and helped them get to Bangladesh, where a staggering 615,000 Rohingya refugees have fled since August 25, according to aid agencies.
The refugees have escaped violent clashes in the north of Rakhine State, where Myanmar's military has intensified what it calls "clearance operations" targeting "terrorists" after Rohingya militants attacked police posts, killing 12 security officials.
The UN calls what's happening in Rakhine a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" and the killings that took place in Mumtaz's village on August 30 have been described as one of the worst atrocities of the past two and a half months.
Documenting a massacre
Shafiur Rahman, a Bangladeshi-British documentary maker, first heard about what occurred at Tula Toli after he filmed a group of Rohingya crossing the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh on September 2, three days after the killings.
The dramatic footage shows dozens of men and women clambering across barbed wire fences into no man's land, some of them covered in blood and carrying dead or injured relatives. Their distress is palpable.
"It quickly became clear to me that those telling me the most horrific accounts of their last few days were those coming from Tula Toli," Rahman tells CNN. "And what also struck me was the consistency in their stories."
He met Mumtaz and Razia in Bangladesh in late September. Almost mummified in bandages, Mumtaz had spent 15 days bed- bound in a clinic, unable to speak or even sip a glass of water. By mid-October, the horrific burns all over her face and body started to slowly heal, and Mumtaz began to share her story with Rahman in a series of interviews.
Accounts of mass rape, murder and arson have been given by many of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have escaped Myanmar.
But the testimonies Rahman has collected from a total of 30 Tula Toli residents over the past two months, and detailed in this report depict what Amnesty International describes in an October report as "what appears to be one of the worst atrocities of the Army's ethnic cleansing campaign."
"Amnesty International believes, based on consistent, corroborating witness accounts, that soldiers massacred at least scores of Rohingya women, men, and children from Min Gyi on 30 August," the Amnesty report concludes. Min Gyi is another name for Tula Toli.
Amnesty also released satellite images showing the village before and after the houses were burnt.
'They won't kill anyone'
One of Myanmar's poorest regions, Rakhine State is home to the mostly Muslim Rohingya and the Rakhines, a predominantly Buddhist ethnic group.
The two have lived side by side in Tula Toli for generations although long-simmering tensions have often erupted into violence in the region. The estimated 1.1 million Rohingya have been denied citizenship in Myanmar, which regards them as Bengali. Bangladesh insists they are from Myanmar, rendering them effectively stateless.
In detailed video interviews and conversations, most of the 30 survivors told Rahman that they were given assurances by local officials that they would be safe if they remained in their village.
Mohammed Nasir said he was told: "They might torch the houses, but they won't kill anyone."
Residents describe helicopters landing near the village at 8 a.m. on the morning of August 30. The soldiers were joined by around 50 Rakhine Buddhists and other non-Rohingya minorities from outside the village, survivors said.
"They asked us to gather on the beach," Nasir says, describing the sandy bank of the meandering river that runs through Tula Toli. He saw the killings unfold from a hill.
"When they saw people gathering, they went straight for them. They were shooting continuously, at the same time the houses were burning.
Cellphone footage shows Tula Toli residents heading to the river in their village on August 30, where witnesses say many were shot later that day.
Another resident, Rehana Begum, said she was also told to leave her home and stay near the river.
"They kept us there by saying that they would do us no harm," Begum says. "At 8 a.m., a helicopter landed and the village was besieged. Whoever was able to flee, they fled."
"(The military) surrounded us suddenly and we could not escape because of the river. The tide was high. There were no boats. Since my brothers could carry my children, I was able to swim and flee," she says.
"Many were shot, scores got hit and they fell on their face," Rehana said. "Those lying on the ground were picked up, chopped and later they were thrown into the river."
Hasina, a Rohingya woman from Tula Toli, says the soldiers and their accomplices threw her one-year-old daughter Sohaifa on a fire while she was still alive.
"They tore her from my arms," Hasina says, breaking down into tears. "They threw her into a burning pile of clothes. They had started a fire using people's belongings. And they threw her into the big burning pile."
Her husband had been working outside the village when the killings took place and later reunited with his wife in Bangladesh, where he found out about the death of their only child.
CNN cannot verify the accounts of the refugees, as access to Rakhine State is heavily restricted.
Peace deal signed
More than a week before the attack on the village, Rohingya village officials say there was a meeting on August 18, in which both Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims from Tula Toli signed a peace agreement.
While the village, which is home to 4,360 Rohingya and 435 Rakhines, hadn't seen any clashes in recent years, Rakhine officials said they wanted to allay Rohingya fears given tensions between the two groups elsewhere in the state and a recent military build up, the survivors told Rahman.
"A resolution was passed to not attack each other and live peacefully. It was signed by both sides, Rakhine and us," said Nur Kabir, the current secretary of Tula Toli's village administration, who is now in Bangladesh.
"But they attacked on Wednesday starting at 8 a.m. and killed us."
The survivors say their trust in that peace agreement signed days before, and in the village authorities, was obliterated when the military arrived early on the morning of August 30. Those who escaped estimate that between 1,500 to 1,700 people died that day.
Rahman believes, given the instructions of local officials, the peace deal and the military build-up in the area before August 25, that the attack on Tula Toli was pre-planned. He calls it a "terrifying and inescapable notion" that undermines the repeated insistence from Myanmar authorities that the military were responding to attacks from Rohinya insurgents.
Zaw Htay, the spokesperson for Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, said that local Rakhines and the military had been targeted by insurgents in Tula Toli.
"We could verify that on 30 August 2017 in Min Gyi (Tular Tuli) village, there were a total of eight attacks against Rakhine population and security forces by hundreds of terrorists," Zaw Htay said.
Previously, Myanmar's government has denied charges of ethnic cleansing, saying that the military took "full measures to avoid collateral damage and the harming of innocent civilians" in Rakhine State.
In a televised speech on September 19, Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace prize laureate who took power in 2015 in a power-sharing agreement with the military, said she "condemned all human rights violations," but failed to address alleged atrocities by the military.
She now faces increased scrutiny ahead of the visit of the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, on Wednesday, who has said he is "extraordinarily concerned about the situation."
Pope Francis, who has spoken out repeatedly in defense of the Rohingya, will also meet with Suu Kyi during a visit to Myanmar and Bangladesh later in November.
Bleak future
Mumtaz is slowly recovering from her burns and other injuries in Bangladesh, but faces a desperate future.
Conditions in the border camps are bleak, with aid agencies struggling to provide enough food, shelter and healthcare in what the UN has described as the world's fastest growing refugee crisis and a major humanitarian emergency.
She and Razia now have only each other. In the carnage, Mumtaz says her husband was shot by the riverside. One of her three sons was thrown into a fire. The other two were killed in the wooden hut that Razia and Mumtaz escaped from.
"My brother and the others were burnt," Razia says. "They were killed by being smashed. They shot dead my dad."
Razia's head is scarred with the blows she received. But worse is the mental trauma of the memories, which are still raw.
"She saw. The little girl saw everything," Mumtaz says. "She tried to pick up her brother as he was burning. She couldn't."
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