ph56_early-works-later-versions
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  1. PlayPh56 01 Casuals (Thaddeus Valk: Framerate Mix) π
  2. PlayPh56 02 Tybalt 60 (Somatic Responses: Transport Remix) π
  3. PlayPh56 03 Serious (Robert Lippok: Black Cat Mix) π
  4. PlayPh56 04 New Name (Chessie Remix) π
  5. PlayPh56 05 In Which Our Hero Finds A Faithful Sidekick (Dalglish: Dalglish Mix) π
  6. PlayPh56 06 Acid Works for Me if it Works for You (Dr. Rek: Decapitated Evil King's Fort) π
  7. PlayPh56 07 Termites In The Bathtub (Akiko: Off to Slumberland Mix) π
  8. PlayPh56 08 The First Day After The Worst (Matthew David Ragamix) π
  9. PlayPh56 09 In Which Our Hero Finds A Faithful Sidekick, In Which Our Hero Is Put Under A Spell, Darker Earlier, Incomplete 4 (Dak: Dntknoe) π

‘Early Works, Later Versions’ is a collection of remixes and variations on Dntel’s ‘Early Works for Me if it Works for You II’ by several of Dntel’s peers and modern contemporaries. Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot, Monika, Raster-Noton) has clearly done this sort of thing before, and starts off by updating “Serious” into a twinkling and blippy rendering of the original, reminiscent of his Komeit remix album several years ago. A new version by Chessie (Plug Research, Drop Beat) drops in guitar licks recalling a lightweight take on indie-electro, and Somatic Responses (Leaf Label, Hymen Records) drenches “Tybalt 60” with gritty and thunderous stabs of broken percussion. Finally, newcomer Thaddeus Valk uses an arpeggiated synth intro to rework “Casuals” into some other kind of tune from the 1990s – almost an IDM-meets-rave hybrid.

2:40 am on July 1, 2010 Permalink