Having recorded for Soleilmoon, Plug Research, Dalriada, Imprint, and even landing a spot on the highly elusive MASK series (Skam, UK), Andrew Diey is a multi-talented musical sculptor and audio designer. With just a quick glance at his discography, you can surely tell that Andrew has been very busy over the past few years using his Black Faction and Foreign Terrain alias’ to display dark and emotive electronic formations.
With the release of Reworked, a compilation of remixes, the original intention of this album was to feature a few remixes from the previous Black Faction album, Iternal Dissident. With multiple email conversations taking place amongst Black Faction and musician friends, the project developed into this multi-genred full-length CD release on Poland based Vivo Records.
On Reworked, a culmination of minimal electronic oriented artists deliver an expressive musical journal of downbeat experimental frequencies. You can’t really get any more diverse than some of the artists featured on this disc including John Hudak, Universal Delux, Rapoon, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Sutekh, Valea Djinn, Nemezis, Black Moses, Black Arc / Cclay, and Foreign Terrain / Cclay. A brooding, almost sinister feeling evolves throughout Reworked while the listener is left in a state of delirium…
..Reworked Electricity ::
One of the highlights is featured on Black Faction’s “Cartesian”.. a saturated blend of classical production, deep basslines and thoughtful melodies that are loosely tied to a swift percussive beat. Old-school Meat Beat Manifesto styled beats are also chemically nurtured on tracks like “Afghan Front Mix 3” also by Black Faction. Rapoon produces spatial electronic ambience that casually sizzles away into obscurity on tracks like “Odessian” and “Caligulan”. Keith Fullerton Whitman (aka Hrvatski/Reckankomplex) places his thick ambient textures on a track entitled “Sepia Indate”. Sutekh’s “Oakland Concrete” displays slippery electrical currents through his machines to create an organically decayed minimal piece. Black Moses’ hip-hop influenced “Anti-Freeze-Props Mix” creates a sonic landscape of gritty vocal slabs and Prefuse 73 styled rhythms. What a work-out on the ears!
Reworked packs an impeccable mix of subterranean frequencies that could be considered as minimal, if not listened through as a whole. But with this assessment comes the contrasted downbeat experimentations leaving you to piece through many musical formations and a full-length CD that you’ll be spinning at all times of the day.
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