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Radere - I Do Not Want What I Have - Remixes [GRCR​-​017RM]

by Great Circles

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Several of Radere's close friends and collaborators step up with a deeply considered set of remixes and reinterpretations of the original material from his 'I Do Not Want What I Have' LP on Great Circles [GRCR-017]. The five-track set spans 48 minutes and features work from Great Circles alums Chaperone, Westov Temple, and Ultraesthetic [one half of WOLF DEM], alongside new arrivals to the label, Borne and Shivers.

Borne kicks off the set with the first of three reworks that harvest sounds from both of the LP's original tracks. This is a lush, 13-minute journey in which semi-aquatic and vascular sounds carry us from scene to scene, as though we're following one last dream, just before waking.

Shivers - the duo of James Elliot and Oliver Chapoy [AKA Certain Creatures] - open their remix with shimmering breezes akin to some of those found dancing around Borne's version. Those breezes become more aggressive winds that carry with them metallic dust that won't let go once it's attached itself to your hair and fabric. Shivers bring things back to the blood level, with a slow, self-aware heartbeat before a final dissociative send-off.

Westov Temple's reinterpretation of the LP takes inspiration from two specific musical moments in the original and elevates them through layers of his own live gong recordings, piled atop detuned loops and a woozy, short-lived beat.

Moving into the two individual track-based remixes, Chaperone has a direct dialogue with the spirit of "You've Been A Ghost Yr Whole Life," introducing breath and space - physical and psychological - when we need it most. It's a looped, narrative approach that, as Chaperone often does, makes us wish for 15 more minutes of peace and invites even further remixing ventures.

Rounding out the set with a rework of "Spitty Kisses," we find Ultraesthetic taking things into much more percussive territory, delivering a captivating, emotional piece on the slow and sludgy end of jungle. While the atmospheric treatments hold dominant position over the rhythms, we are nonetheless compelled to shake off the weight of it all and once again move our bodies.

For an album born of intense personal trauma, which references the haunting dead - literally and sonically - it's fitting that friends and collaborators of the artist find abundant signs of life and optimism through their variations, and even more so that several of the remixes anchor themselves in the most directly personal element of the original work - the human voice.

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released March 6, 2020

Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete Mastering

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