As soon as Azari & III's remix of HEALTH's 'We Are Water' kicked in, my first thought was of 80s Ghostbuster fabulousness - kinda cartoony and cut with a little bit of Thriller. I'm not sure if it's cause I'm feeling all the Tron hype today, but I'm vibing this suuuper sick remix in all it's crunky, industrial, electronically thick and bouncy glory.

The track kinda stalks like on a catwalk for it's 5mins 39secs, in a flamboyantly tough and decidedly camp fashion, oozing a little bit of that icy-ness of Health I know and love, but totally fattened out. It's like some beefcake of a ghetto tranny werking it real hard to execute a Jen Beals Flashdance moment in a games arcade. Is that weird? Or just awesome.

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The whole of the interwebs seem to be a-buzz with Health again lately, after they burst onto the scene in 2007 when they dropped their debut full length as well teaming up with Crystal Castles to release 'Crimewave'. Now with the release of Get Colour and the unleashing of epic stomper 'Die Slow' and it's remixes, the boys can do no wrong.

Health were in London playing a gig with Deerhunter, and those of you who read this blog will know they were also playing a 'secret gig' at the Lexington. It seemed that many of London's purveyors of excellent musical taste were in attendance, (spotted: Joe of Metronomy fame) and for good reason.  The LA based art noise rockers most certainly did not disappoint. The anticipation was palpable as Gold Panda did a set in support and was received with murmurs of approval from impressed audience members quickly followed by raucous applause.

Some DJs filled in for a time, and when the band began to slowly shift towards the stage, they made the hastiest exit I've ever seen any gap fill DJs ever make, to the screech of feedback from the mike and a wide-eyed, if awkward silence as the crowd waited for Health to begin.

And begin they did. No matter how great your soundsystem is, nothing can beat the thrill of watching a truly awesome band like Health pummel it out in the flesh. BJ hammering the drums into making ground shuddering beats like some kind of Thor, the guitars and effects; the shiny sweep of John's hair as he embodies rhythm as a dancer as Jupiter stands or crouches broodily next to him and Jake breathes his airily composed vocals - aside from when he screeches like some kind of little dinosaur.

Health are so fucking heavy, as in weighted with so much gravity, it's shattering. It's sex music, total man music; so much so that they actually got me wondering whether girls are capable of creating and playing this kind of music in the same way (discuss)? Health are the smartest kinda primal, the ones who would have discovered fire or invented the wheel kinda primal.

And all they want to do is give us music that our parents won't understand, as they told me when we sat down and talked it out whilst they were in town.

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Health

Word up! Noisy art rockers Health are in London playing a number of gigs including a 'Secret' on Wednesday night at The Lexington and we've got 2 pairs of tickets to giveaway to the intimate performance.

So if you're in London and want to win a pair of tickets, shoot us an email at HOLLER@IMYOUARE.COM with IM // HEALTHY in the subject line and your name in the body. We'll draw the winner at random late Tuesday (tomorrow) night.

Tobacco

Funny funny, Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow has taken his hand to remixing Health's 'Die Slow', turning it into a super funky jam. Somehow managing to keep the dark, softly space goth enigma of Health in the echoey vocals whilst being kitted out in a 60s feeling funkadelics. With jamming electronic drums and soaring synths, it's a far less serious trip than the stomping original, or the brilliant Pictureplane renditions and with it's bouncing bass it will make you bounce too.

Here it is below as debuted on Pinglewood.

The Health boys

I laughed to myself before I googled "health die slow"; thinking that it would return all kinds of medical mumbo back at me. To my surprise though, the first couple of pages at least, were what I was looking for: LA's experimental noise rock band Health (though the next few pages started describing Amy Winehouse's decline).

They're back with their first release since their incredible Disco remix album and their astonishing eponymous debut album, 'Die Slow', with it's brilliant groaning guitars and drums that pound inevitably forward.

Jacob Duzsik's layered vocals are like a transparent veil of chiffon over the morphing and shifting guitars, with icicles of noise and effects shimmering in and out to accompany the stalking drumbeat. 'Die Slow' has a raw finish; and despite it's matrix-esque qualities, it's also kinda primal. Artfully executed and flawlessly put together, 'Die Slow' is a slayer.

The Pictureplane remix is gorgeous, lush and almost a little bit tropical. If I ever had to describe in music what travelling through a wormhole in a dream at warp speed with a stomping house beat driving felt like to me, this track would do that very neatly.