Does anyone actually know what’s going on these days with The Avalanches? No. But there is this mixtape – another from the elusive Pinchy & Friends, the group (or whatever) that earlier this year released the elegantly simple Sleepy Bedtime Mix for Young Ones, a mix attributed to the fictional character – a Bukowski character, no less – Henry Chinaski. But then it was rumored that it really came from The Avalanches, the fucking Australian sample kings who haven’t done a record since the now classic Since I Left You; that’s twelve years ago and counting!



Anyway, this new mix is called Cool Gays and comes from Cool Gaze. It is all excellent, an enticing mixture of minimal disco, classy electro and more w/ music from Chic, Walsh, and "a track that may or may not be The Avalanches". Whatever, I’m a huge fan, whatever, I get excited about it, yeh, but ultimately, this is more than that. It’s a long cool party’s worth or jams worthy of all them feet that’ll be shuffling about the dance floor.