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title: "“All You Need Is” (the 2006-05-26 Friday Fetch-it)" date: 2006-05-27 00:19 series: the Friday Fetch-it

tags: Bloc Party, M83, Silent Alarm, Silent Alarm Remixed, The Pioneers, The Pioneers [M83 remix]

<p>Not many artists order a track-by-track remix of their début album. But then not many artists are <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Bloc+Party">Bloc Party</a>, which is probably for the best – how would we tell them all apart?</p>
<p>The majority of <a title="Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Remixed" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Bloc+Party/Silent+Alarm+Remixed">Silent Alarm Remixed</a> proceeds much like <a title="Bloc Party - Silent Alarm" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Bloc+Party/Silent+Alarm">Silent Alarm</a>, with some sounds added and taken away and a few extra wolves here and there. <a title="Bloc Party – The Pioneers [M83 remix]" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Bloc+Party/_/The+Pioneers+%5BM83+remix%5D">The Pioneers [M83 remix]</a> bears no resemblance whatsoever to <a title="Bloc Party – The Pioneers" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Bloc+Party/_/The+Pioneers">the original track</a>.</p>
<p>It's an immersive, epic stringscape, layered with a rhythmically repeating, disjointed burst of a <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Kele+Okereke">Kele Okereke</a> vocal; this punctuated by intermittent fragments of the song, slightly out of sync with the rhythm. Think a passenger of the Titanic running futilely for their life along a collapsing corridor, in slow motion and in black and white.</p>
<p>It seems brief even at 5:47. Perhaps it's because there are so few words.</p>
<p>They even used it on Top Gear a couple of weeks ago in a piece about the new Honda Civic. What more could you possibly want from a song? <strong>If you download one track this week, make it <a href="http://gkn.me.uk/thefridayfetchit/20060526.mp3">Pioneers Remixed</a>.</strong> Stay tuned.</p>