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XAM DUO

XAM DUO RMX (SONIC CATHEDRAL)

XAM DUO - XAM DUO RMX 155140
format:
1 EP
release:
30.12.2022
label:
SONIC CATHEDRAL
item ID:
155140
barcode:
5060853702143
A-side features a reworking of the album's closing track, 'Cold Stones', by legendary electronic artist and DJ, James Holden, WHO has taken the original's calming, comedown energy and transformed it into an epic, 11-and-a-half-minute journey, which somewhere around the five-minute mark comes right back up.

"It's like the most rave thing I've done for ages and also not rave at all, like a blurry dream about a rave?" .

Whatever it is, it's incredible, as are the two further reworkings on the B-side. The Early Years reframe 'LGOC' as a divine astral jazz / krautrock crossover, while Richard Pike (of PVT and Deep Learning) turns 'Blue Comet' into a glitchy and discordant soundtrack to the best 1980s computer game you never played.

"It's lovely to hear three different interpretations of songs that we already tend to keep quite loose and elastic," says Matthew Benn.

"These remixes feel like a natural extension of the music on the album, like they're from the same world, but perhaps in a different language."
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. COLD STONES (JAMES HOLDEN REMIX)
  • 1.2. LGOC (THE EARLY YEARS REMIX)
  • 1.3. BLUE COMET (RICHARD PIKE REMIX)