Polymer Boulevard Remixes blends a myriad of experimental electronic music and its unique sub-genres. Dense rhythmic shadows, surreal ambient textures, and downtempo elements weave through, and yet the cohesion between each piece is expertly curated.
A veritable electronic stew
As the press release accurately describes, “the two brothers are fascinated by a wide variety of musical genres. So the idea of having all the tracks from their current album Polymer Boulevard remixed by selected artists, each at home in a different genre, was an obvious one.” Polymer Boulevard Remixes blends a myriad of experimental electronic music and its unique sub-genres. Dense rhythmic shadows, surreal ambient textures, and downtempo elements weave through, and yet the cohesion between each piece is expertly curated.
From the broken industrial mechanics of “Rotormesser (The Ebertbrothers Redshift Remix),” to the dribbling beatwork and expressive sound design on “Mean Guy (Karsten Pflum Hooligan Mix),” what we have here is a veritable electronic stew. With a surplus of abstract music, “Lisa (Ex.Hale Rework)” is a powerful track blending tones’n drones with sandblasted drum’n bass shadows as the rugged electro-botics of “Rotormesser (Serge Geyzel Remix)” takes flight. Closing with an unexpected storm of industrial rock on “Aureolin (Mezolozyde Rock It Remix),” Polymer Boulevard Remixes is an expressive and collective mix of ideas, each artist delving into the originals‘ “Slowly building musical lava flows, cascading synths and organically layered melodies.”
Polymer Boulevard Remixes is available on Mindwaves Music. [Bandcamp]