Monday, July 9, 2007  10:00 pm 

Cosmo-planetary Music

Today is a day for remixes - nice ones, not pointless shit - done by some of our favourite disco dwelling souls, dark of heart and noble of spirit:

A few moons back we posted the In Flagranti remix of Black Devil Disco Club, with its wide screen cinematic visions of horrorshow bass heavy bleep hypnosis at the hands of brain-hungry mutant corpses. Black Devil have now repaid the favour to In Flagranti by warping the new single into a chrome bat speeding through the swirling mists of a haunted mansion.

In Flagranti - Non Plus Ultra (Black Devil Disco Club Remix)

It starts off all potentially light-hearted 198O’s pop until the echoing synths and vocal menace sound off and the sky clouds over to shield the dancing demons from the Sun. The pressure drops, everything is cast in grey, then it just gets darker. The percussion is nothing new but Black Devil has always been about “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentalities, and the way that this bubbles and flashes liquid spears of pure black evil at you, your in no position to complain. DJ’s at electronic jamborees of ghouls and goblins save this one for the midnite hour, its like an invocation thing, we are told.

Line the Devil’s pockets by buying the pervy-covered vinyl here

Speaking of the midnite hour, our gothic soothsayer pal Midnight Mike has just covered ‘United’ by some band called Throbbing Gristle to wonderful effect and the Naum Gabo Optimo fiend has worked his disco magic on the flip of the 12″.

Midnight Mike - United (Naum Gabo Remix)

The A side is a sweet slo-mo new wave cover version that appears on the upcoming ‘Midnight Karaoke’ LP. This Naum Gabo remix makes it dancefloor friendly by plucking the planets from the heavens and forging them into giant disco balls with sinister synth basslines and sampled sounds of satellites collapsing into black holes. Midnight Mike’s vocal rasp is part intergalactic cyborg warlord and deviant lizard-man dwelling in the city’s shadows, folding inwards and occasionally doubling up as the cold electro shines off of the sequin covered planets.

Sample more Wizard-Pop with this 7O’s-esque sci-fi warlock mini epic video for ‘Interplanetary Music’ featuring vocals from Zongamin and Bishi, a cover of the original by Sun Ra.

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