It is always refreshing to hear something different and this remix EP falls into that category. Regis offers up a quality piece of reduced Factory inspired electronics. Monoton delivers a stranger and more cerebral take. Disturbed, dark and introverted music.
[Release page] Electronic music has always enjoyed a postmodern disposition. It is a genre that picks and chooses from a range of styles. With the new machinery of the analogue age came a wealth of unheard sounds. Distortion allowed for a plethora of ideas to be breed from the old and the new. Across Europe former guitarists took up synthesizers and drum machines. Art groups took to basements and experimented with this new equipment, cobbling together their own specialized tape reels and 8-tracks. Industrial, EBM, New Wave and more were born. It is these sounds, amongst others, that Desire Records has focused on. Ike Yard was part of the No Wave scene in the early 1980s. Desire have an LP reissue in the pipes, but to whet the appetites of listeners the French imprint offers a remix EP.
The Regis interpretation of “Loss” opens the 12-inch. The track is a stripped down piece of electro minimalism. A claustrophobic, introspective sound courses through the track. Pads and a staggered beat opens. Vocals mutter darkness and paranoia. Analogue machinery rumbles and subterranean distortion echoes in this powerful piece of reduction. Monoton is on hand to add KB Dub Mix of “NCR.” The track is positively floral in comparison to the bareness of Regis. Cluttered beats straddle upturned melodies and insulated bars. A peculiar piece of proto-industrial experimentation.
It is always refreshing to hear something different and this remix EP falls into that category. Regis offers up a quality piece of reduced Factory inspired electronics. Monoton delivers a stranger and more cerebral take. Disturbed, dark and introverted music.
Regis & Monoton Remixes is available on Desire. [Release page]
