Some are Diamond, others merely Zircon

Though we have not visited them for a while, Glass Candy are still leading the IDIB pack into further uncharted territory of moonbeam disco prowess, with Desire forging a new companion galaxy where planets take the form of giant stalactites spearing an orbit around a chrome sun.

Remixing Glass Candy is much like remixing LCD Soundsystem – you don’t really need to as the originals are mostly always expertly formed odes to the stars, the real phosphorous bundles of burning minerals in the nite sky kind or strings of fairy lights snaking around the ceiling of a downtown NYC houseparty. But when its done correctly it can reflect the song in an ornately gilded mirror of alternate beauty, such is the remix of “Life After Sundown” by Diamond Vampires, who apply a sheen of cosmic space dust to the track in the formation of a pointillist painting that depicts a high class murder, this vision pulling it through to another dimension where lightning forks upwards from the earth to the heavens and spheres of white light are slowly dragged into a black vortex from whence the sound emanates from.

Glass Candy – Life After Sundown (Diamond Vampires Remix)

Here is the sound of an awakening landscape, a place at first desolate and void of anything to be labelled living, where shards of light refract in pools of water and splinter away into the shadows illuminating forgotten corners of time, the light unfurling robotic creatures from slumber and sparking the growth of great towers of ancient architecture like vegetation fading upwards to the dark skies.

Lazer Crystal creates a perfectly seething creep of a synth line and then add more on top to sorcerize a macabre modulation that transcends mere mortals and speaks only to the creatures that dwell within the ether and snake through the winds brushing across soft focus lens captures of shimmering cityscapes, asymmetric icecaps and sleepy half-lit harbours.

Lazer Crystal – Love Rhombus (Instrumental)

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(image conjured by TommyBoy)

Padded Cell’s head demon Richard Sen has melded together all the precious metals from the Milky Disco stable to construct a seething creature of a mix that is perfectly represented by the above image: a bio-mechanical disco droid stood still, staring into The Dark beyond the dark on a laser scorched dancefloor full of invisible revellers swinging limbs to the sound of flaming bass and synths that crunch like the gnashing of teeth:

Richard Sen – Milky Disco Mix

Tracklisting:::
1. RICHARD SEN + CAZBEE – Sour 24 Hour
2. BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB – Is Sorrow (Brain Machine’s Lucifer Rising Dub)
3. PLASTIQUE DE REVE feat. GHOSTAPE – Lost In The City (4O Thieves Remix)
4. THE EMPEROR MACHINE – You Clapper
5. EXPANDING HEAD BAND – Sound Of Breaking Glass
6. SOLID STATE – Space Boogie
7. BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB – Free For The Girls (Richard Sen’s Sumerian Fix)
8. RICHARD SEN + CAZBEE – Mad High
9. SOFT CIRCLE – Don’t Just Stand There (Eric Broucek Mix)
10. RICHARD SEN + CAZBEE – Playback

Richard is also DJing at T Bar in Aldgate, London – 11th June 7pm-3am FREE ENTRY