Higher Love Recordings have hired some help to remix Jazxing's Pearls Of The Baltic Sea LP in its entirety. Each of the 8 tracks has been totally reimagined by talent cherry-picked from all over the globe.
Italian in New York, the Brooklyn-based Roman, Danilo Braca, speeds up Fala, and after an ambient opening of seabirds, splashing surf, and free-jazz sax soloing, takes the track out onto the dancefloor. Has it spinning for an epic 12 minutes plus. Braca expertly building the banger from pitter-pattering percussion and echoed handclaps. Big keyboard chords chaperoning the kick. Its b-line a low resonant room-shaking hum. Acid wiggling, deep in the mix, waiting impatiently for the breakdown.
Jazxing's fellow countrymen, fellow Poles, Polotronic - accomplished alumni of Very Polish Cutouts and one half of Holiday 80 - transform W Uscisku's slow TB-303 shuffle. Conjuring images of caged go-go dancers, strobes, and leather and fetish gear, with a hi-energy treatment that's part Italo, part EBM. Pummelling, sleazy, slightly gothic '80s synth-pop, with crashing electro drums and low-end arpeggio, it's like Divine and Bobby O given a rude rub-down and 21st Century spit and polish.
Manchester's James Bright gives Artifacts a makeover. Beefing up its loved-up Soul II Soul beat. With house anthem keys and emotive synthetic strings, the stripped back electronic stomp is an amazing, scarily accurate, recreation of an early '90s arms aloft moment. The sound rich. The bass bold, bionic.
From Brighton, Andres y Xavi, turn the prog / space rock stylings of Hyacinth into the perfect soundtrack for a 'sleepy' (read 'stoned') sunrise stagger home. Looping loosely picked acoustic guitar and a fragile folk vocal over a TR-808-like boom. It's also something to have playing, perhaps, while you pour your first post-afternoon siesta cocktail, getting ready to do it all again.
Das Komplex, the famed Polish producer who's received props from plenty of big names, such as DJ Harvey, radically reworks the Siouxsie Sioux / Cure-like chug of Neu Nostalgia into another modern mirrorball mover. Boasting a bumping bass-line, funky strumming, and fragmented rock riffs, this is sleek Sci-Fi cosmic disco. More ace arpeggiated action.
Staying with Poland, where the original of Harbor Dub was a sludgy, squelchy skank, Janka deliver a dynamite dose of dub techno. Dominated by the bottom end, of course, which is warm, womb-like, all consuming, wholly hypnotic, its details are reduced to sonar blips, short snatches of their sources, sunk, treated, trapped in delay.
Shoegaze Dub borrows its beatific vibe from the genre in its title. However, any similarity ends there. Higher Love's own Balearic Ultras make the connection more explicit by peppering the piece with documentary dialogue. Snippets of people explaining the importance and influence of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, for example, while the tune itself becomes a slow sensual wade through sonic treacle. Its piano like Thrashing Doves' Jesus On The Payroll played @33.
Finally, Nottingham's Is It Balearic? crew, Coyote, construct a percussive campfire groove from the modal, mediative mist of Vijnana. Their remix, subtitled Whirling Dervish, is a lot more organic. Layering live-sounding instruments, including a mandolin, or some kind of zither, having them cycle, prettily, in laidback drum circle rounds.
Copy by Dr Rob @banbantonton
Italian in New York, the Brooklyn-based Roman, Danilo Braca, speeds up Fala, and after an ambient opening of seabirds, splashing surf, and free-jazz sax soloing, takes the track out onto the dancefloor. Has it spinning for an epic 12 minutes plus. Braca expertly building the banger from pitter-pattering percussion and echoed handclaps. Big keyboard chords chaperoning the kick. Its b-line a low resonant room-shaking hum. Acid wiggling, deep in the mix, waiting impatiently for the breakdown.
Jazxing's fellow countrymen, fellow Poles, Polotronic - accomplished alumni of Very Polish Cutouts and one half of Holiday 80 - transform W Uscisku's slow TB-303 shuffle. Conjuring images of caged go-go dancers, strobes, and leather and fetish gear, with a hi-energy treatment that's part Italo, part EBM. Pummelling, sleazy, slightly gothic '80s synth-pop, with crashing electro drums and low-end arpeggio, it's like Divine and Bobby O given a rude rub-down and 21st Century spit and polish.
Manchester's James Bright gives Artifacts a makeover. Beefing up its loved-up Soul II Soul beat. With house anthem keys and emotive synthetic strings, the stripped back electronic stomp is an amazing, scarily accurate, recreation of an early '90s arms aloft moment. The sound rich. The bass bold, bionic.
From Brighton, Andres y Xavi, turn the prog / space rock stylings of Hyacinth into the perfect soundtrack for a 'sleepy' (read 'stoned') sunrise stagger home. Looping loosely picked acoustic guitar and a fragile folk vocal over a TR-808-like boom. It's also something to have playing, perhaps, while you pour your first post-afternoon siesta cocktail, getting ready to do it all again.
Das Komplex, the famed Polish producer who's received props from plenty of big names, such as DJ Harvey, radically reworks the Siouxsie Sioux / Cure-like chug of Neu Nostalgia into another modern mirrorball mover. Boasting a bumping bass-line, funky strumming, and fragmented rock riffs, this is sleek Sci-Fi cosmic disco. More ace arpeggiated action.
Staying with Poland, where the original of Harbor Dub was a sludgy, squelchy skank, Janka deliver a dynamite dose of dub techno. Dominated by the bottom end, of course, which is warm, womb-like, all consuming, wholly hypnotic, its details are reduced to sonar blips, short snatches of their sources, sunk, treated, trapped in delay.
Shoegaze Dub borrows its beatific vibe from the genre in its title. However, any similarity ends there. Higher Love's own Balearic Ultras make the connection more explicit by peppering the piece with documentary dialogue. Snippets of people explaining the importance and influence of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, for example, while the tune itself becomes a slow sensual wade through sonic treacle. Its piano like Thrashing Doves' Jesus On The Payroll played @33.
Finally, Nottingham's Is It Balearic? crew, Coyote, construct a percussive campfire groove from the modal, mediative mist of Vijnana. Their remix, subtitled Whirling Dervish, is a lot more organic. Layering live-sounding instruments, including a mandolin, or some kind of zither, having them cycle, prettily, in laidback drum circle rounds.
Copy by Dr Rob @banbantonton
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