13th March      JUNIOR BOYS DJ SET @ Hiro Ballroom, New York, NY
27th March      JUNIOR BOYS DJ SET @ Get Physical Party, Studio A, Miami, FL
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Get Physical invite Canadian electronic pop sophisticates Matt Didemus and Jeremy Greenspan, aka Junior Boys, to contribute the latest instalment of Body Language, the mix CD series which has previously been helmed by M.A.N.D.Y., DJ T., Jesse Rose, Dixon and Château Flight.

Thanks to two hugely acclaimed, genre-exploding LPs, Last Exit (2004) and So This Is Goodbye (2006), The Junior Boys have established themselves at the forefront of contemporary electronic pop music, their work a beguiling marriage of timeless songwriting and modern dancefloor-derived production values. As evident in their own records, and when they DJ other artists, Matt and Jeremy have always had an affection for the more deep and minimal-leaning end of the house and techno spectrum; Matt also happens to be resident in Berlin. So it made sense that they would find friends and shared interests with the people at Get Physical, who subsequently handed them the Body Language reins.

The Body Language series is an opportunity for artists to deliver an expressive, personal mix, a journey through their record collections which presents the old alongside the new, unearths the obscure and overlooked, re-contextualizes the familiar. Matt and Jeremy selected and mixed the tracks for Body Language Six in between recording sessions for their forthcoming third LP, and it succeeds both as a mapping of the band’s interests and influences, and as tremendously satisfying and versatile mix in and of itself.

There is an unmistakeably Balearic thread running through the mix, exemplified by Prins Thomas’s chiming remix of ‘Sorcerer’, and Todd Terje’s Beach House version of Studio’s ‘Life’s A Beach!’, an edit which manages to be gloriously strung-out and utterly propulsive at the same time There are nods to some talented friends: former Junior Boy Johnny Dark now makes 2-step informed synth-pop with San Serac as Stereo Image, and their ‘Dark Chapter’ forms part of Body Language Six’s punchy middle section; Kelley Polar, like Jeremy a sometime Environ artist and collaborator with Metro Area’s Morgan Geist, is represented here by Magic Tim’s loping, dizziness-inducing instrumental of ‘Rosenband’. F0st3r plays drums for Junior Boys, but is also an accomplished techno producer, having produced in the past for Richie Hawtin’s Plus 8 imprint. One of his more recent efforts, ‘bl3w r0d30 d3m0’, is exclusive to this mix.

Of course, Matt and Jeremy are no strangers to the power and charm of upfront minimal techno themselves, and on Body Language Six the serrated bleeps and whirrs of Love Nine’s ‘Feedback’ find their perfect complement in the reductionist funk of Kreon & Lemo’s ‘Fola’. Steadycam’s K2 cut ‘In The Moog For Love’ is a straight-up dancefloor track, but shares the warm vintage bass sound so beloved of Junior Boys; Cosmo Vitelli relocates Radio Slave’s fearsome rave signature ‘Screaming Hands’ to outer space, while Matthew Dear’s ‘You Know What I Do’ recalls Talking Heads at their rhythmic avant-pop peak. Michael Mayer and Superpitcher weigh in with their ominous Supermayer stand-out ‘Saturndays’, while Chelonis R. Jones, one of Get Physical’s most talented and idiosyncratic signings, offers his ‘Deer In The Headlights’, as given the strutting, analogue noir treatment by DJ Hell.

One of the abiding qualities of the Body Language mix series has been their connection between past and present, showing the debt contemporary artists owe to their more forward-thinking predecessors. Here, Junior Boys show us of the spirit of adventure still audible on Pushé’s mind-bending, Francois K-mixed 1984 classic ‘Don’t Take Your Love Away’ and Visage’s austere proto-electro jam ‘I’m Still Searching’ from two years before.

‘No Kinda Man’ is a previously unreleased Junior Boys track, born out of the So This Is Goodbye sessions, and available exclusively to this mix. Its arrival towards the end of the disc provides a timely reminder of the dialogue between Junior Boys’ various track selections and the rich, multifaceted sound of their own work.

Parisian Chloé supplies a dubbed-out remix of Rework’s recent Playhouse hit ‘Love Love Yeah Yeah’ and the immense, dystopian ‘Be Kind To Me’ from her acclaimed artist album The Waiting Room, but it’s a sparkling vision of utopia that concludes the mix: Bill Nelson’s ‘When Your Dream of Perfect Beauty Comes True’, recorded in 1982, is a sumptuous but subtle celebration of the emotion and humanity that can be wrought from machines, a celebration which Junior Boys continue twenty-five years later.

BODY LANGUAGE SIX - MIXED BY JUNIOR BOYS - TRACK LIST

01 - Sorcerer - Surfing At Midnight (Prins Thomas Miks)
02 - Supermayer - Saturndays
03 - Chelonis R. Jones - Deer In The Headlights (DJ Hell Remix)
04 - Love Nine - Feedback
05 - Kreon & Lemos Feat. Feeboy - Fola
06 - Kelley Polar - Rosenband (Magic Tim's Instrumental Version)
07 - Steadycam - In The Moog For Love
08 - Radio Slave - Screaming Hands (Cosmo Vitelli Radioaktivitat Remix)
09 - Studio - Life's A Beach! (Todd Terje Beach House Mix)
10 - Gui.tar - Love Started To Shine
11 - Stereo Image - Dark Chapter
12 - Matthew Dear - You Know What I Would Do
13 - Pushé - Don't Take Your Love Away
14 - Visage - I'm Still Searching
15 - Junior Boys - No Kinda Man
16 - Rework - Love Love Love Yeah (Chloé Remix)
17 - f0st3r - bl3w r0d30 d3m0
18 - Chloé - Be Kind To Me
19 - Bill Nelson - When Your Dream Of Perfect Beauty Comes True