Yesterday Diplo posted this remix of Sleigh Bells' "Tell 'Em" and hinted at a possible collaboration between the two and Beyonce for her forthcoming record. Details...

Sleigh Bells scored big last year with their debut, Treats, a sample-heavy barrage of razor-sharp guitars and fuzzy, intoxicating harmonies. Or as Diplo put it on his blog, "one of the sickest of '10 .. its soo sick, its gave me a stomach ache .. half lyrnyrd skinnard half bangladesh half man half alligator." He's saying what we're all thinking.

"Tell 'Em" gets the Diplo treatment on this remix, selectively pruning instruments and structures while keeping the song pretty much intact. Sleigh Bells' songs are ripe for remixing; their structures are rigidly rhythmic with well-defined choruses and verses that provide the remixer with a blueprint of the song, who can then map out what parts of the song stay and which parts get tweaked. Diplo's version is pretty sick, he takes the frenetic energy of the original and manages to pace it throughout the song, all while enflaming the track with the dynamic, aggressive instruments we've come to expect from him. Listen/download below.

As for the Beyonce thing...
"me and switch was in studio in nyc tryin to make tracks with derek and beyonce last week after we played her team their album .. dunno if we gonna manage to finish but was good times."

Word is that Beyonce is getting down with indie acts in order to infuse her fourth album with some unexpected influences. Last year, her and Jay-Z (a rapper) showed up at a Grizzly Bear show in Brooklyn and it caught headlines on numerous bloggins. Don't know what a Beyonce/Sleigh Bells/Diplo collaboration would sound like, but I'm all for it. More on that when it's out there.

Check out Sleigh Bells on tour in the US:
April 15 - Indio, CA @ Empire Polo Club
April 21 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
April 22 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
April 24 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
April 26 - Baton Rouge, LA @ Varsity
April 28 - Orlando, FL @ Firestone
April 29 - St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theater
April 30 - Miami, FL @ Grand Central
May 2 - Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage
May 3 - Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom
May 4 - Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel
May 6 - Richmond, VA @ The National
May 7 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
May 9 - Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
May 11 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall
May 12 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
May 14 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
May 16 - Toronto, ON @ Mod Club
May 17 - Toronto, ON @ Mod Club
May 18 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews
May 19 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
May 21 - Winnipeg, MB @ Pyramid Cabaret
May 23 - Edmonton, AL @ Starlite
May 25 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue
May 30 - San Francisco, CA @ Independent
May 31 - San Francisco, CA @ Independent
June 3 - Aspen, CO @ Belly Up
June 4 - Denver, CO @ Ogden