VARIOUS ARTISTS John Carpenter's Lost Themes Remixed (RED/CLEAR SWIRL) LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS John Carpenter's Lost Themes Remixed (RED/CLEAR SWIRL) LP

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      Now here's an interesting deal. A follow-up companion piece to John Carpenter's fantastic debut solo album Lost Themes, featuring a killer roster of artists all remixing Carpenter's material into their own image. And there's not a dud among 'em.
      Prurient's remix of "Purgatory" is virtually unrecognizable from the source material, remolding the eerie melodies of Carpenter's synths and guitars into a throbbing, over-modulated noisescape that twists and writhes and clips, obscuring fragments of sweeping cinematic sound beneath those crushing distorted loops, becoming a haunting piece of industrialized darkness that's not too far removed from the sound of Prurient's most recent album Frozen Niagra Falls. Zola Jesus & Dean Hurley's turn "Night" into a stripped down, gleaming black technoid throb glazed by ZJ's rapturous voice, transforming into soulful, almost R&B-tinged darkpop majesty. Skinny Puppy's Ohgr wraps "Wraith" around brutal dubstep, adrift on a fog of swirling electronics; it's the heaviest track on the record. Minimal techno artist Silent Servant strips "Vortex" down to a bare, malevolent pulse that develops into an almost ritualistic vibe, and experimental electronic duo Uniform appear to draw from the sound of Carpenter's Escape From New York in their approach to "Vortex", producing a chilly, stark disco nightmare that ended up being my favorite remix out of the bunch. And another highlight is found when Blanck Mass recreates "Fallen" in his own skittering, sinister visage, weaving snippets of the song's central hook around an increasingly militaristic rhythm and layers of distorted, malevolent synth. Foetus/JG Thirwell whips up some terrific dark synthwave with his remix of "Abyss" that gives the track a vintage, almost 16-bit chiptune feel, while also incorporating his signature use of layered synth-strings and orchestral blasts. It closes with Family Battle Snake's Bill Kouligas, who masticates "Fallen", revealing a strange, surrealistic expanse of glitch and glimmering electronics, producing the most abstract contribution as this slips into an alien glitchscape somewhere in between Nurse With Wound and Tim Hecker, descending at last into a spooky, tumbling dust-haze filled with microscopic motes of Carpenter's original recording. Way better than what I would have expected from a Carpenter remix project, this turned out to be pretty adventurous in it's use of Carpenter's source material. Good stuff.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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