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Slowdive – kisses – sky ii (Grouper Remix)

Now this was an unexpected delight. Says Liz Harris of the experience: “Making music was only an idea in my head when I first fell in love with Slowdive. What a strange dream all these years later to work with them. This track was such a lush pop hit to start, I just tried to boost and smear those gauzy highs and fields of dreamy texture, and Rachel’s ethereal vocals. Added a touch of tape, Wurlitzer, and space echo too. It was a pleasure to work on.”

Grouper’s celestial interpretation was accompanied by a Daniel Avery remix, which is also very good, but this is the one for me.

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Orbital, David Holmes & DJ Helen feat. Mike Garry – Tonight In Belfast

In a first, and hopefully last for this blog, I’m posting something that I absolutely cannot stand and wish didn’t exist. Orbital’s Belfast is a really special record; not only one of the best electronic tracks ever produced, but one that remains utterly timeless and never fails to elicit an emotional response in me. This new version is none of these things. It’s trite, cliched nonsense, and I have no time for it at all. Rather than rehashing classic records, perhaps everyone involved should focus on doing something genuinely creative.

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Golf Trip – Killing Flowers (Pale Jay Remix)

Pale Jay is probably my favourite new musical discovery of 2023, and his album Bewilderment is one of the best albums of the year. I’m not familiar with the original Killing Flowers so not sure exactly how much he’s done here, but the results are lush.

https://golftrip.bandcamp.com/album/tranquility-float

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Space Ghost – Deep (Dirk 81 Remix)

It’s 1988 and you’re lying on a beach and you’ve been up for two days straight and honestly don’t think you’ve even been as simultaneously tired and content at the same time and you’re not really sure if your friends are still here and you can’t be bothered to try and remember where you last saw them, or even where exactly in the world you are and anyway you’re near a bar that’s playing a pretty random mix of 70s rock and kinda floaty, beatless music and it’s really nice and everything but maybe a kick drum would be good, but a gentle one mind, nothing too harsh and then you hear this…

https://space-ghost.bandcamp.com/track/deep-dirk-81-remix

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Laurie Anderson – Big Science (Arca Remix)

An unpopular opinion: I don’t really like Arca’s music and find it fairly hard, even borderline impossible to listen to. I’m wrong, obviously, and if I think about it it’s objectively ‘good’ (many would argue peerlessly groundbreaking), I’ve just never got on board with it. So it’s a rare treat to hear her remix of the equally experimental Laurie Anderson and enjoy it, so I’m finally free to jump on the Arca Appreciation Juggernaut ™.

https://laurieanderson.lnk.to/BigScienceArcaRemix

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Gia Margaret – Solid Heart (Guy Sigsworth Remix)

An admission: this time last week I don’t think I’d ever heard – or at least paid enough attention to – the name Guy Sigsworth. For more astute music fans out there however – Gia Margaret included – he’s one of the more celebrated producers of the last 20 years, working with artists including Björk, Goldie, Madonna, Kate Havnevik, Alison Moyet, AURORA and so (so) many more. With a call sheet like that it’s perhaps unsurprising that his remix of Solid Heart sounds absolutely sublime, transforming the lo-fi, duskiness of the original into a slick, downtempo electronic cut complete with a little flurry of cascading synths as delicate and bewitching as you could possibly hope for.

https://giamargaret.bandcamp.com

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SOPHIE – BIPP (Autechre Mx)

I’ve been avoiding this for a few days now because a) I didn’t love SOPHIE’s album – or any of her work – as much as every single music site told me I should if I had any kind of taste at all and b) I don’t actually know as much about just how important Autechre are to electronic music in general. Consider this my public apology. Anyway, this is predictably amazing, opening with some of the punchiest drums I’ve ever heard and I guess this now means I should listen to everything Autechre have ever produced. Bet they haven’t made many albums though, so expect I’ll be up to speed before the end of the day.

https://autechre.warp.net

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Perfume Genius – Without You (Jim-E Stack Remix)

Two of my favourite artists of the year coming together means I was pretty sold on this before I even listened to it. Jim-E Stack brings the melancholy vibes to the fore with his remix, further teasing out the already lovelorn qualities of the original and adding warm chords and a skittering breakbeat to create something that sits right in the happy/sad sweetspot. A beautiful, dejected banger.

http://jimestack.com/

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Coolgirl – Gaussian Blur (Varsity Star Remix)

Varsity Star is a Brooklyn-based electronic musician who grew up in the suburbs of Boston, but relocated to Berlin after a “biblical flea infestation” made his apartment uninhabitable. His remix of Coolgirl’s Gaussian Blur amplifies some of the more retro-leaning electronic elements of the original, upping the tempo and adding furious, Squarepusher-esque drums to run alongside the neon synth lines. By turns franticly glitchy and soothingly warm, it’s an assured reimagining of what was already a strong record.

https://varsitystar.bandcamp.com

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This is (Not) Beethoven – Adagietto (Matthew Herbert Mediterranean Dub)

The second joint production by pianist Sebastian Knauer and the composer Arash Safaian, This Is (Not) Beethoven is an album made up of variations on themes from Ludwig van Beethoven, aiming to modernise the work of the classical musician to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth. More recently, the project was opened up to a number of remixers, among them Matthew Herbert, who provided this epic reworking of Adagietto. Patient, haunting and completely transfixing, it’s an incredible reimagining, and goes to show you really can remix anyone and anything, as long as you do it properly.

http://matthewherbert.com