Displacer revisits this iconic record and brings some friends along to partake, creating a flowing and textural audio assault that represents the entire dark electronic music landscape, likely for another decade.
A flowing and textural audio assault
Displacer (aka Michael Morton) unveils a special edition of The Witching Hour, a nineteen-track amalgamation of its originals, a lost track titled “Communication Breakdown” that meanders with broken beat patterns, and six new remixes mastered by Raab Codec of Component Recordings (aka Snowbeasts), sixteen years after its initial release with the much-missed Tympanik Audio imprint. The original album—in its past and current form—is a reunion of some of the finest post-industrial artists on the planet and stands as a timeless masterpiece of industrial deep-dub, groove-laden, and blistered mechanical elements, while the (new) remixes of the title track take unexpected turns and constantly enhance the gloom that exists within.
Displacer revisits this iconic record and brings some friends along to partake, creating a flowing and textural audio assault that represents the entire dark electronic music landscape, likely for another decade.
The title track remixes are particularly noteworthy, especially Access To Arasaka with its swaying drum and bass implosions, Shimmer Crush’s shattered glitch mechanisms, and Cathode Ray Tube’s closing audio collage of bricolage beats and distortion. Such a behemoth of an album in its initial form with remixes by L’ombre, Diff_Cult, Larvae, Autoclav1.1, and ESA—missing on the SE version and shifted over to Cage Fighter’s Lullaby SE—that its follow-up support by s:cage, dormnt, Snowbeasts, Access To Arasaka, Shimmer Crush, and Cathode Ray Tube is a definitive merging of like-minded sonic sculptors that’s well worth the wait.
The Witching Hour SE is available on The Crime League. [Bandcamp]
