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E1 Grain | Process <18/09/00>
E2 Mice Parade | V/Vm | Múm <25/09/00>
E3 Smith & Ludlow | Stromba <02/10/00>
E4 Antenna Farm | Motion <09/10/00>
E5 Lucky Kitchen | Team Doyobi <16/10/00>
E6 Foehn | Chasm <23/10/00>
E7 Immense | Fonn <30/10/00>
E8 Di Lacuna | Transient Waves <06/11/00>
When FatCat were offered the chance to put together a series of remixes for
One Little Indian artist Emiliana Torrini, it stimulated such lively thought
and debate in the office that it seemed foolish not to take the project on.
Whilst some might argue that the ethics of re-producing a 'pop record' is
not exactly true to the spirit of FatCat, after hearing the results, we have
to disagree. Credit has to go to Emiliana for firstly asking us to curate
the project, and then for her openness in accepting it without attempting to
impose any generic / creative restrictions on either label or artist.
So we came up with this; seventeen disparate remixes spread over eight 7"
singles to be relased in a continuous stream that toys with anticipations
(join the dots of the unfolding logic...). Tracks shift and jump from the
lush strings and slow-burning beat of Chasm, to Team Doyobi's quirky, choppy
video-game slice of electronix; Motion's low-end, freeze-frame ambience;
Grain's pumping, floor-filling drive; the stabbing syncopations of Process'
minimalist Cologne-style funk; V/Vm's staggering, rippling layers of
digital noise; and Di Lacuna or Immense's guitar-based instrumentation.
Beyond being merely an audio remix, the project has been expanded out to
include the visual aspect. With the whole project based squarely around
information obtainable via a dedicated website, sleeves and web-art are
remixed from images sourced from Emiliana's original sleeves. Remix theory
and mp3s of all the tracks (including exclusives) are also available.
Both the website and 7"s will unfold during the course of the two month
release schedule, meanadering through musical styles, changing direction
wildly, each landing in a different area. Sounds and styles clash.
Different technologies are deployed. Parasites service or devour the
host....
Listen in and you'll hear a broad spectrum of styles and approaches.
Avoiding the over-employed practice of drafting in a bunch of big name
remixers, FatCat have instead chosen to introduce a cluster of lesser-known
(perhaps fresher, more creative?) artists, gathered both from our own roster
and countless associates. The results will surprise, intrigue and (we hope)
amaze.
Another point of interest lies in the variety of approaches that
artists have brought to bear on the project - from those sympathetic to the
spirit of Emiliana's original text, to those that fly off at their own
tangents, and others that mercilessly ambush and mutilate; those who weave
their own parts - or even samples from others - amongst a clutch of
re-worked samples; those who 'cheat' by simply cobbling a token clip of the
remixed track over their own, already-recorded material; those who
reinterpret the tracks with their own instrumentation; those who look for
clips of meaning to be manipulated, detourning or reinvesting the original
text with a new layer of understanding; those that 'defy' the rules and,
instead of remixing a single track, sample freely across the length of the
album, reworking the dislocated, isolated parts into a new whole...
How much do you reinvent? How much do you compromise? How much do you
learn or extend yourself? Team Doyobi pitch up the vocal and splinter
off stuttering chunks. Di Lacuna lift Emiliana's fully intact vocal part,
rearranging their own instrumental around it. Smith & Ludlow re-sing the
whole track through a vocoder. Process chips off short bursts to be
re-sequenced into a funky, staggering hypnotism....
We attempted to take full advantage of the freedom given to us, and hope
this may have opened up some new avenues of thought for all those concerned.
We enjoyed this. We hope that you will too.
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