To celebrate the release of On the Bright Side (PHC04) – just recently declared by publications like Resident Advisor and Pitchfork as some of noted techno stalwart Sasu Ripatti’s (Vladislav Delay, Luomo) most propulsively energetic material in the past few years – Halo Cyan has taken Sasu’s new full-length album and asked some of electronic music’s biggest current names to have their hand at re-imagining what the album’s “ur-disco pattens and textures” might sound like when filtered through the lens of techno, dubstep, and hypnagogic pop.
Scuba and FaltyDL invest the originals with their sense of the current landsape of dubstep and so-called “purple” maneuverings, respectively…and neither disappoints. Brooklyn’s synth warlord Oneohtrix Point Never examines Sasu’s “Funseeker” and applies a rich layer of sprinklingly light ambience atop the original. Similarly, Kompakt’s Walls apply a pensively brooding twist to “A Better Shore”.