Title: Please Don't Tell Me That's Your Remix
Artist: Tim Koch / Various
Label: Aural Industries
Cat. No. AI006CD
?Please Don't Tell Me That's Your Remix? (PDTMTYR) features fifteen artists?
re-workings of tracks that originally appeared on Tim Koch?s ?Please Don?t
Tell Me That?s Your Volvo? album, his second full-length on Aural
Industries.
Warp?s ambient-techno of the early 90s has been an obvious reference point
for Koch and his contemporaries from the start, but with this collection the
evolution away from the template is complete. By now these slightly
melancholic moods, reminiscent melodies, wistful wibbles and electro bloops,
and occasional glitchy microsounds, underpinned by slinky grooves or
skittery percussion have become a kind of lingua franca of international
post-millennial intelligent dance music (IDM).
And internationalism is the order of the day here, with artists ranging from
across the post-digital musical world. First off is New Zealander Jet
Jaguar?s down tempo rendition of ?Obatem By Night?, presenting us with a
dubbed-out trip-hoppy groove embellished with echoey elliptical keyboard
fragments. Next stop is the U.S. and Proem?s ?Rzswingrmx?, on which he
takes us into the darkest corner of his reverb unit and proceeds to assault
us with thudding chattering post-Autechrean percussion and a series of
wonderfully snaking wriggling atonal synth motifs. Proem also provides the
wonderful artwork proving he is an artist of many talents. On to the U.K.
via a smart piece of C64 retro-electro from Goto80+Extraboy, then to
Australian Bloq?s explorations of rhythmic timbres and tempos and Mr
Projectile gives us backsliding glitch-ridden rhythm track, flip-flopping
and fluttering to offset the mellow keyboard loops and deep bass
underpinning. Elsewhere the retro-electro-funk contingent are well served by
the likes of Quark Kent, Adrien75, Vim!, and Coffee Table. The recently
emerging strain of Russian electronica is well represented by Novel23, who
choose to highlight the melancholic resonance of Koch?s keyboard motif for
?Obatem By Night?. Indie-tronica leanings are displayed by Ten & Tracer and
his subtle atmospherics. More experimental takes are provided by Bauri,
Raven, and Yunx. All in all a strong and cohesive compendium, PDTMTYR
provides the listener with an enjoyable overview of the current fertile
state of the art of the sonic architecture of IDM.
Track-listing:
01. Obatem By Night - Jet Jaguar
02. Rzswingrmx - Proem
03. Obatem by Night - Goto80 + Extraboy
04. Sudafed x2 - Bloq
05. Obatem By Night - Mr Projectile
06. I Split My Etnies - Disjunction Reunion
07. Binoce - Quark Kent
08. Werdan - Yunx
09. Obatem by Night - Novel23
10. Rzswing - Bauri
11. Boybie Socks - Raven
12. Sudafed x2 - Ten & Tracer
13. Lull - Vim!
14. Lull - Adrien75
15. Boybie Socks ? Coffee Table
Available soon through kompaktkiste, s://kimo and Inertia.
Regards,
John
www.aural-industries.com.au
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