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September 13, 2005
goodbye to fun
Black Dice - Smiling Off (Luomo remix)
On this remix, Luomo does what he does so well: he parses Black Dice's fantastic 'Smiling Off' (which is a window's view of gnarled thickets of thorns, rapacious kudzu, and undiagrammed railroad tracks punctuated by blurry ellipses of eye-catching meadows and spare, old forests) by taking Aaron Warren and Eric Copeland's vocals and drawing them, in a way, into one of his soft and fluttery grooves (e.g. 'the Present Lover').
If you think of the Black Dice original as a relief print block, where the details are raised and articulated, surrounded by rough-hewn patches of wood, then the Luomo remix is like the intaglio analogue, with a clean shiny surface and with only the most prominent of details etched into the copper plate. It's not that the remix is quite the diametric opposite, but some elements (the thicker Black Dice noises) have been lost in translation (to be replaced by other, sleeker, more polite noise). Side by side the two tracks converge, aesthetically, at certain points; the border between them may be fixed, but it's also porous.
This remix will be released on both a 12" and a CD, also featuring remixes by ZZ Pot and the DFA, on October 4th. You can buy it here right now, and it'll probably be up on here soon too.
Posted by Kevin at September 13, 2005 12:41 AM
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