Ghostly drums straight out of Lovecraft’s xenophobic nightmares open up a aural landscape already indistinct, shrouded with a smokey flicker straight from Limbo.

Bashmore’s 2009 remix of the middle child from Deadboy’s already seminal U Cheated 12″, Heartbreaker, plays with the future or Future Garage.  A Future that came and went, a future that now arrives with a new 12″ with old remixes.  It’s an alternative past where these remixes formed a canonical relationship with a 12″ that rightly popped up everywhere.  It’s the Primer of Well Rounded 12″s.

Where Deadboy’s original always seemed like the percussion was sliding out from under it — a masterclass in the limits of control and belligerent bass –  Bashmore’s take locks step quicker and replaces the pounding bass with a scuttling piece of pre-dawn House.  Great swathes of calm and reflection punctuated by an almost mournful wash of hand-claps and reverberating synth stabs.  Finally tying the streetlight-synths of the original to a suitably deserted piece of 4am percussion.

 Deadboy – Heartbreaker (2009 remix by Julio Bashmore)

Julio Bashmore‘s Heartbreaker remixes 12″ is out on Well Rounded Housing Project on 03/10/11.