Tuesday, October 28, 2008  1:01 am 

My cat is made of smoke and he DJ’s every Friday at The Perspex Pinnacle

Previously, not a million weeks ago, we “reported” on the first volume of the Genghis Tron mix 12″s with Steve Moore reanimating “Board Up The House” for full invasion of the brain munchers disco shimmy effect. Volume 2 is set for a November release on Lovepump United with Tobacco soaking the corpse of “Relief” in a screamo-psychedelic acid bath, Circle wrapping “Recursion” up in Vangelis-ian reverb with vagabond soothsayer vocals and Dntel ushering in a new dawn on the surface of Jupiter with a remix of “The Feast/Ergot”.

Genghis Tron – Recursion (CFCF Remix)

We dig the CFCF remix of “Recursion” the most. Mainly due to the fact that at times it sounds like the instrumental version of Carly Simon’s “Why” if Crystal Castles had written it while their aggro switch was turned off (think “Magic Spells”). This mix takes place in a desert of snow, the glacial synths gliding freeform through the air tracing the outline of bulbous glass vases filled with sparkling wonderment. In a steady sequence these vases shatter with explosive crystalline force and regroup to form skeletal cobwebs in the sky.

I don’t know who Rubberroom is, and to be frank I don’t have the time or the inclination with which to do the research, soz, thats the truth, but it follows the excellent edits released last year by Disco Devil.

Rubberroom – Take Me

In the same way that the Brennan Green edit of Tom Tom Club’s “On The Line Again” worked so well by only enhancing the best parts and lengthening everything so the goodness lasts longer, Rubberroom turns “Take Me To Your Heart” by The Eurythmics into a decadently baroque slow disco 12″ Extended Mix for blue-lit basement dancefloors full of jaded skinny young things who like a good march. The tempo has been reduced and a few simple tones underneath the central core of the track adds heart piercing tension, making it sound like Joy Division if Ian Curtis had been a girl who only listened to Krautrock and Martha & The Muffins b-sides.

Check it on Rubberroom’s new 12″ “Hippie Dance”.

labels >> CFCF, Genghis Tron, Rubberroom, The Eurythmics

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