You would think by now it would be hard for Actress (Darren Cunningham) to do anything but see the forest for the trees. After exhibiting the capacity to rearrange techno in toto, why would you care to go back and restructure but one unit of that whole, re-dress and rework a single track? Who knows; thankfully, Cunningham remains a bewitchingly unpredictable creator, and in turn we’ve profited from some absolutely fascinating remixes. Remixes that, in the shadow of R.I.P.’s exquisitely vague patterns and sedated beauty, remain surprisingly relevant.
Most recently, Cunningham lent his penchant for chopping & screwing to fellow knob-twiddlers Legowelt and Dinos Chapman. The remixes of Legowelt’s “Elementz of Houz Music” range from hypnotically minimal to rhythmically anesthetized, both steeped in Actress’ trademark codeine fog, while the latter Chapman reworks are of a different sort altogether.
In February, Chapman — a visual artist turned sound designer — released his ear-catching debut Luftbobler, an LP of oblique IDM sketches and Stockhausen-y electronics. At some point thereafter, Actress picked up these ideas and carried them off to his nocturnal deep house alter-dimension. They reappeared as new creations on April 20, newly reanimated, newly corkscrewed, and strangely impressionistic. As FACT reported, these pressure-cooked remixes can be heard on the 500-copy limited pressing Luftbobler Remixed/Remastered EP via The Vinyl Factory.
Listen to some of both artist remixes below, and hopefully (hurry hurry) you can still snag a copy or two over at Honest Jon’s Records.
• Legowelt: http://www.legowelt.com
• Dinos Chapman: http://www.jakeanddinoschapman.com
• The Vinyl Factory: http://www.thevinylfactory.com
• Honest Jon’s: http://www.honestjons.com
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