| In the spirit of exploring the influence of Dntel's earliest material over the past decade of electronic and indie music production, Phthalo has asked several artists who've said they were inspired by that work to reapproach those songs with their own modern and varied takes on the source material. The result is 'Early Works, Later Versions', a limited EP of new, updated remixes and variations by several of Jimmy Tamborello's peers and contemporaries. Running through some of the artists on hand for this task, To Rococo Rot's Robert Lippok has clearly done this sort of thing before, and starts off by updating 'Serious' into a twinkling and blippy rendering of the original, in many ways reminiscent of his 'Falling Into Komeit' remix album several years ago. A new version of 'New Name' by Chessie (Plug Research, Drop Beat) drops in indie guitar progressions to recall a lightweight take on electro, and Somatic Responses (Leaf Label, Hymen Records) drenches 'Tybalt 60' with gritty and thunderous stabs of broken percussion. Finally, newcomer Thaddeus Valk uses an arpeggiated synth intro to rework 'Casuals' into some other kind of tune from the 1990s - almost an IDMmeetsravemeetsjungle hybrid a la Metalheadz-via-Oakenfold. |
