Like a bartender who keeps the drinks coming, Bloc Party know what makes their fans happy. Evidently, it's a steady stream of recorded product.

Since the Stateside release of Silent Alarm in March, the British dance-rockers have released a remix album, a live album (exclusively through Virgin Digital) and early last month, a new track and more remixes.

And by January, Bloc Party will already be working on a new studio full-length (see [article id="1505953"]"Bloc Party Throwing New Tour, Recording Fresh Tracks"[/article]).

"In terms of basic ideas, we got something between 20 and 30 things, but in terms of finished songs, there's only really a handful," bassist Gordon Moakes said backstage at KROQ-FM's recent Inland Invasion festival. "It's about finding the time to get them from square one to finished, and that takes a bit of time."

In the meantime, fans can download the new "Two More Years" on iTunes, as well as a remix of "Banquet" by Mike Skinner, a.k.a. Brit rapper the Streets. (Skinner also directed a video for his remix, which is available on blocparty.com.)

The Streets' remix is not included on Silent Alarm Remixed, but there are plenty of other interesting contributors, including Death from Above 1979, Ladytron and Mogwai.

"We had remixes knocking around like a year and a half ago for some of the tracks, and we've been farming others out to various DJs and bands, people we respect," Moakes explained of how the album came together. "I think we realized after about a year that we had enough tracks to make a good record -- not just a record, but a worthy record."

Bloc Party are considering dropping one more Silent Alarm single (most likely "Little Thoughts"), but are waiting to see how the just-released "Helicopter" does on radio and video outlets.

"It's one of our more frenetic, up-tempo kinda numbers," Moakes said. "And it always goes down [well] with the crowd, so it always seemed logical to hit TV with it."