remix remix remix

i knew there was suppose to be more.

you may or may not have noticed that 2005 saw the rearrival of guitar pop bands dragging in the holier than thou for cool remixer and getting said button tweaker to spruce up the originals for the dancefloor. there have even been a couple of compilations just for this type of freakiness.

anyways, some of the results are great.

so in a couple of weeks we get to hear new hotly tipped band 'mystery jets' dirty electro'd versions of the hardassed libertines single 'you cant fool me dennis' that is out today (remixes in a couple of weeks - vinyl only). first there is the justice remix that actually doesn't really strap a disco beat on at all. in fact the track is just a stripped down, rhythmically tighter affair with the song left intact and lashings of piano chord domination. then we get the weirdly named 'straight bat version' (simian's james ford has been involved apparently), whereby a pills and thrills beat kicks in and will make people of the night wiggle about while gurning in pleasure, but the track that will get most attention is the ubiquitous erol alkan reworked version of 'zoo time' where the drawn out rhythm and isolated bass line, guitar parts are seperated out and left to their own fragile vices, until a few minutes in when all manner of ramshackle extras are thrown into the equation. and, just in case you dont know, erol runs the trash club, and is a scenemaker of repute, to the degree that even Annie asked him to come up with a few 12" reworked versions of several album tracks. so erol enrolled various noisemakers to f*ck around with annies pop perfection. part one of the series of 3 was released a few weeks ago, and now part 2 is imminent.

again 12" vinyl only, for those that require details :

always too late - joakim dub mix

helpless fool for love - patrick wolf mix

always too late - joakim vocal mix

without wanting to upset joakim at all, i have to admit that it's the patrick wolf track amongst these that makes my nerves go all gooey. patrick has stripped away the basics and added layers of analogue gorgeousness (with cupid choir of course!), which counteracts the glitchy broken acid techno-fied tracks that joakim has provided.

all good.

tr'ffic

mark e

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