Peace out

So we had a lovely e-mail from the fabulous remixers over at Buffetlibre (see their swizzles of "Love Kills" by Little Boots and the Sidechains remix of "Into the Groove" by you know who) who have been working on a project with Amnesty International for two years. Don't run a mile now you know it's got something to do with charity!

They've pulled in the talents of 180 artists from 50 countries (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Marc Almond, Patrick Wolf, 4hero, Dubstar, Tahiti 80, Dan Deacon, Micah P Hinson, Steve Wynn, The Antlers, Mogwai, Mexican Institute Of Sound, A Place To Bury Strangers, The Toxic Avenger, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Stereo Total, Vive La Fète and Bart Davenport to name a few) to create a 'musical atlas of the world'. Pretty cool idea. Some of the pieces are vair interresant; Patrick Wolf (he literally is the pop star version of Marmite here on S&N) created a quite noice cover of Kate Bush's "Army Dreamers". An artist called Rockettothesky made a spine-tinglingly haunting cover of Bowie's "Heroes" - actual shivers. There seems like a wealth of beautiful music created by people literally all over the world - it's refreshing to see Iraqi-French artists included.

Anyway the entire compilation (180 songs!) is available for a small donation to Amnesty International over here and you can preview the tracks streaming first anyway.