While the original EP is a return to logreybeam’s electronica roots [e.g. Yasume, remixes for Metamatics and Norken], ‘False Start [remixed]’ departs in various directions — from ambient/ downtempo and IDM, to tech house and techno.
After opening with Ruxpin’s ethereal, glitchy rendition of Atumnal Tints, the album then makes a respectively deeper, then darker and dirtier turn through Missingsense and Roel Funcken. Exercise One opens a techno stretch with deliciously slow, sludgy beats, Mikael Stavöstrand delivers a rolling bassline + tech-house groove, and Roy E Gamble [another Gabriel Morley alias] offers a preview of what happens when the artist remixes himself. The album winds down with a comparative study on the deconstruction of ‘Reminder’ from Shiro Fujioka and Tom Roberts — the latter leaving us with a scape of loveliness, à la classic Global Communication.
False Start [remixed] is available on Bandcamp. Proceeds benefit Macmillan Cancer Support.
