PYE CORNER AUDIO
LET'S REMERGE! (SONIC BOOM REMIXES) (SONIC CATHEDRAL)
Pye Corner Audio releases an EP of remixes by Spacemen 3 legend Sonic Boom on October 28. Let's Remerge! takes three tracks from the recent album Let's Emerge! - which went to Number One in the Official Charts' dance chart following its release in July - and gives them all appropriately weird and wonderful twists.
'Haze Loops' gets turned inside out, the smoke clearing to reveal some new shoots; Andy Bell's guitar is brought to the fore on 'Saturation Point', keeping things together as the rest of the track spins out of control in the background, like a cross between Khruangbin and Ennio Morricone; previous single 'Warmth Of The Sun' is put through an acid blender, blurring all the edges and giving us one much-needed final hit of serotonin as the summer recedes into the distance.
"When Nat from Sonic Cathedral said we should ask Sonic Boom for a remix, I thought he was kidding, but as a huge Spacemen 3 fan I felt we should give it a shot," says Pye Corner Audio, aka Martin Jenkins.
"Happily, he ended up remixing three tracks and I couldn't have been more pleased with the results.
He really took them somewhere special." "Friends kept mentioning Pye Corner Audio. Friends with good taste.
And when I listened, I could hear why," says Sonic Boom, aka Pete Kember, who has just released Reset, his acclaimed collaboration with Panda Bear.
"When Sonic Cathedral approached me about a remix, with Andy Bell in tow to boot, I asked for the stems of the three tracks that I liked the most_ and sometimes in life things just flow.
"Three tracks and three remixes later, here we are, finally sending them off into the world to do their thing and for us to float and oscillate into their textures.
These songs were medicine during troubled times for me. I can't think of a better endorsement."