Label: Force-Inc. Format: CD,3LP
Auch‘s Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye was by all accounts one of the albums which brought the glitch to the wider dancefloors filled with the minimal Techno put out by Force-Inc and similarly-inclined labels. Here it gets demixed further into the realms of attenuated, deracinated clickety-snips and thumping grooves alike by eleven co-creators (plus one crackling self-mix) of electronic bleeps, belches and occasional blasts.
No-one gets a track title, just an artist tag to hang the piece on; not being familiar with the source material it’s a little difficult to say how radical the remixes might or might not be, but they flow together nicely, warbling, washing and extruding to the slow beat of the evolving laptop sound set up for the century ahead. Danceable and loungable by turns, it doesn’t feel particvularly groundbreaking, but it’s entirely agreeable in setting up then knocking down and playing around with the accepted notions of what seems increasingly vague to call Techno, frequently done with a healthy disrespect for the form too.
So events wander from the single-minded cycling whirrs of technicians Gez Varley and Sutekh to the equally driven stepping chirrups of Goem‘s mix, throught loopily-layered dentist-drill’n’house mania courtesy of DAT Politics and the surprising interjection of cheery melody combined with environmental chaostrophe from Ricardo Villalobos to Full Swing‘s slow motion rubberbanded gloom. There’s plenty of variety and hynotic grooves of not too disparate kinds to be found on Remix Tomorrow Goodbye. Want to lean back, relax with furrowed brow, then jump up and down in a grinning tranced-out way for a while? This’ll do the trick.
-Freq1C-
