Review:
This exciting project sees Bara Brost's album Elephancycle get the full remix treatment, with Part 1 featuring six tracks from the record getting interesting reworks. First up, Tim Vita takes the 20s swing sampling "Madame Vita" and stripping out the original's contemporary elements to create an infectious groover. Kareem turns in two remixes; his revision of "Dusty" takes the introspective minimalism of the original and fleshes it out with some colourful melodies, and his version of "Tapdance Shoes" takes the toe tapping weirdness of the original and magnifies it with a menacing vocal. A further two remixes come from Nanopole, who accentuates the bumping rhythms of "Fraulein Lea" and "About A Grumpy Minute" with a palette of detuned synth oddities. Finally That Bleepy Stuff reworks "Fortune Cookie" into something considerably darker, turning the original vocal into something altogether more sinister and drenching it in warehouse sweat.