Massive epic remix from former M83 member Pierre-Marie Maulini, who now operates under the name STAL. This takes the original Years & Years track into wholly new directions and is well worth a listen if you are a fan of big synths and cinematic choruses. Like.
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Stream: Until You Find Me - Teammate
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This new single from LA band Teammate has a great fuzzy garage rock feel to it but binds it to some dreamy vocal harmonies and a big pop hook. There's a fabulous Gigantic moment about halfway through where the bass punches through to create the bedrock for the vocals.
Teammate are ex-boyfrined / girlfriend duo who were in a relationship up until the point drummer Dani came out. Now they remain friends, roommates and bandmates. If you like the sound of this check out Goldmine, a more electronic track the band shared earlier this year:
Stream: So Close (Wild Culture Remix) - Tom Misch & Carmody
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Sometimes you hear a track that is so beautiful it stops you in your tracks... This Wild Culture remix of Tom Misch & Carmody's So Close is one of those moments.
Austrian duo Wild Culture certainly benefit from having exceptional material to work with here. Check out the original version of this track - it is just as good. The duet is so heartfelt that Wild Culture manage to scatter a few gentle electronic touches to transform it subtly... This is a remix, but there is no doubt this is a track with enough emotional weight that it needs the right setting. The gently bubbling electronic finish gives this the feel of Metronomy at their best.
This isn't Wild Culture's first such remix - they have done similarly great ones for Daughter, London Grammar and Glass Animals. Check them out below:
EP Review: Kindred - Max Cooper
Max Cooper follows up on his debut EP Human with this further slices of electronic introspection.
The Kindred EP opens with Origins, carefully crafted piece of experimental dance music that feels incredibly personal and human. The vocals of regular collaborator Kathrin de Boer are woven into the body of this track like a half-formed thought. It is the kind of dance music almost too sad to play to a dance floor... The soundtrack to memories of things that have slipped through your fingers, the Monday morning realisation that this is how things are now, the brain flooded with thoughts that pull you out of a crowded room back into your own personal museum of mental images and things left unsaid. It's a heartbreaking track, and one that Cooper slams widescreen-like black bars on in his extended version, which adds three-minutes to the four-minute original.
Voyage Through The Analogue Womb is a deep bath of bubbling analogue sound, rapid rhythms born of acid synth lines amid layers of crunchy, distorted melody. Less overtly emotive than Origins it nonetheless feels alive and conscious in a way most similarly restrained electronic music simply cannot.
Two further mixes of Origins fill out Kindred. David August creates a tightly wound take full of arpeggiated melodies and extends this to a punctured staccato vocal treatment of the sample. Finally the Throwing Snow remix starts with a softly building loop of the core melody before a sudden break builds in a hard rhythm and some broader, longer waves of melody. Both are excellent reimaginings of the original.
Kindred is out on 1 December through FIELDS, available to pre-order from Amazon.co.uk on MP3 [affiliate link]. Listen to Origins below.v
Stream: Ghost (Maya Jane Coles Remix) - The Acid
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Another fantastic track from The Acid, whose EP Fame came out earlier in the year... Ghost is the third single to be taken from debut album Liminal and the band plan to unveil a series of remixes between now and the end of the year. This first one from Maya Jane Coles perfectly captures the muted melancholy of the original and wraps it around a cool minimal rhythmic electronic sound. Cinematic and ferocious.
As part of the post this track was listened to on a Cambridge Audio G2 provided to BlackPlastic.co.uk by Cambridge Audio. Find out more about the portable bluetooth speaker here.