Icelandic treasure, Björk—always relevant, always amazing—has always gained strength partly from knowing how to pick collaborators & partners. From husband & aberrant artist Matthew Barney to diverse creative partners like Thom Yorke, Tricky, Chris Cunningham, Lars von Trier & Spümcø just to name a small handful.

Working with only the best, Björk & London label One Little Indian have enlisted Berlin’s Modeselektor & Londoner, Sinden to remix her latest single, ‘Dull Flame of Desire’ (b/w ‘Innocence’). This is fresh from the padded mailer. You heard it here first:

Björk - Innocence (Sinden Remix)
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Modeselektor has produced two variations of ‘Dull Flame of Desire’, coming in both “For Boys” & “For Girls” flavors. Here is one of the pair, for my lady friends.

Björk - Dull Flame of Desire (Modeselektor’s Rmx for Girls)
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The Björk obsessed can pre-order the new ‘Dull Flame of Desire’ remix single which includes, double 12″, CD & DVD in Special Packaging right now on One Little Indian’s webstore. Hurry, it’s limited to an edition of 10,000.

Hell a full stack of Björk albums is a prerequisite to be down with me—so get down on Amazon or yr favorite spot.

Visit Björk on MySpace or her official site, Bjork.com.
Download more Björk in our Missingtoof archives.

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We’re back from Coachella! First let me address what seems to be a hot topic: What in the hell was that crazy instrument that was featured in the finale of Björk’s set?

Of course, any of our regular readers in the audience already saw this post and knew the ‘crazy instrument’ to be The reacTable (read react+table), or, a “multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface”. And, if it’s not the original, it must be a facsimile based on the open-source reacTIVision 1.3 framework. All amazing things created by the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.

The finale of her set was a new song titled, ‘Declare Independence’, from her forthcoming, ‘Volta’ album which is being released in on May 8th in the US and is available for pre-order right now on Amazon.

Presumably, the studio recording of ‘Declare Independence’ uses the reacTable that was employed in the live performance. Here is the studio version of ‘Declare Independence’ for your inspection—Listen and love:

MP3: Björk - Declare Independence

And because I’m a total Björk fanboy, here are some more goodies that you might not have heard yet.

First, A remix of a classic by the always-on-point DJ Ayres (of The Rub):

MP3: Björk - Hyperballad (DJ Ayres Remix 2 Short)

Second, a cool little medley/blend by DJ B-Ju that we snatched from ChazBlog in this recent post:

MP3: B-Ju - Björk vs D-Styles (13 min. mix)

Third, some Vitalic remix goodness from a 2005 12″ white label:

MP3: Björk - Who Is It (Vitalic Mix)

And lastly, hear what happens when Spank Rock gets ahold of one of Björk’s brand-spankin’ new track, ‘Earth Invaders’ (snatched from Analog Giant, respect!):

MP3: Björk - Earth Intruders (Spank Rock Remix)

You can visit Björk at her MySpace or official site.

Many of the Coachella performances, including Björk, were filmed professionally and broadcast at the AT&T Blue Room, and there should be an archive of the show going up sometime soon. But for those who can’t wait, there’s plenty more ameature footage of varying quality, like the video displayed above, on YouTube.

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