| After the critical success of his debut last year, Pedro aka James Rutledge decided it might be fun to get in a few friends and acquaintances to remix one of his tracks. Fear and Resilience was taken apart and reconstructed by some of the scene's freshest producers and the idea eventually became an entire album's worth of music. The project kicks off with Prefuse 73's almost operatic mix, produced whilst on tour using only an MPC sampler. This comes over like the Doyle Carte orchestra dropping Gilbert and Sullivan for the neck snap generation. Nice! The Cherrystones follow with a version excursion into Harry Lime territory that sees The Third Man and The Ipcress File wrestle the track to the floor, pummeling it into a 60s spy soundtrack with millennial suss. Man of the moment Danger Mouse comes good with a Shadow-esque piece, all crashing beats and delicate strings, whilst Pedro's own remix goes for a total jazz spaz-out with a violin soaring through the mix. It brushes against your heart, but rubs it up the wrong way, and is beautiful and uncomfortable at the same time. The Home Skillet mix is very free and atmospheric in a Billy Paul East kinda way, but lacks any encouragement to dance. Padraic Mcguire and Koshik Ghosh from the Text and Stones Throw labels respectively give an indication of things to come with their pleasantly confusing stuff that nevertheless has real depth. All this concludes with Four Tet's 21-minute journey that had a passing friend comment 'it sound like an orchestra tuning up forever.' Eventually a midtempo rolling beat shows itself, and the track unfolds into an Eastern flavored violin concerto with mad sax that owes more than a passing nod to Soft Machine. Overall, Fear and Resilience Remixes shows how organic digital sound fuckery can get, and turns up some truly inspired workouts. - Undercover |
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