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Army or Two (Out Out 2.Tr Treatment)
Stereotype (Soman Re:Work)
Stereotype (Blank Mix)
Cooler than Genocide (Uberbyte Bill Hicks Was Right Mix)
Cooler than genocide (Caustic Oi Very Mix)
Mean Enough Hot Enough (Vicious Alliance Just an Animal Mix)
Overrule (Pulse State Riot Grrl Club Mix)
Game Called Life (Leæther Strip Mix)
Game Called Life (XP8 Mix)
Game Called Life (Necrotek End Future Mix)
Game Called Life (Autoclav1.1 Vivify Mix)
Occult Casualty (Synthetic Dream Foundation Mix)
Occult Casualty (BAAL Mix)
Occult Casualty (kAlte fArben Mix)
Decapitation (Ambassador 21 Mix)
Decapitation (Revolution State Mix)
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Remix Riot
machineKUNT Records
Posted: Friday, April 24, 2009
By: Ilker Yücel
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By: Ilker Yücel
Editor
Like any other remix album really, but with quite a few gems that stand as excellent works of contemporary industrial music.
Ah, the remix album; that strange entity in which other artists offer their own interpretations of another's music, often infusing their own style and offering new sounds and ways of thinking about a song or a series or songs. With Remix Riot acting as a companion to her full-length debut, Annihilation Chic, Rachel Haywire presents to us a large helping of contemporary underground artists offering up their own takes on her brand of irreverent industrial punk.
After the clank and clamor of Out Out 2.Tr's treatment of "Army or Two," we launch into the acidic bass lines and thumping beats of Soman's reworking of "Stereotype," in which Haywire's rather unmelodic vocals actually match up pretty well, while Blank's mix of the same track attempts to infuse some trancelike futurepop, although the style doesn't quite work so well with the vocals despite some singularly interesting glitch effects. Uberbyte's Bill Hicks Was Right mix is notable for its inclusion of the late comedian's infamous quote, "Hitler had the right idea; he was just an underachiever," although the remix is little more than a hard-hitting dance floor track with Haywire's shouts given some nice manipulations to act as much as part of the beat and the bass line as they are vocals. Vicious Alliance churn out one of the best remixes on the album with their take on "Mean Enough Hot Enough," adding their militaristically epic swells and bass lines into the track, making it much more anthemic and satisfying, while Pulse State's Riot Grrl club mix of "Overrule" would be an easily forgettable dance floor filler if not for some beautifully crystalline vocoder effects thrown in. Leæther Strip's mix of "Game Called Life" packs a slight punch, but it's rather monotone and loses interest before long, while Autoclav1.1's Vivify mix of the song also ranks as one of the best of the album as Tony Young's massive orchestrations full of oscillating strings, twinkling piano textures, and organic percussion recreate what was a standard noise/EBM track into a beautiful work of ambient post-industrial bliss. Similarly, Synthetic Dream Foundation's mix of "Occult Casualty" evokes an ominous atmosphere with thrumming industrial beats underlying dark vocal manipulations, while BAAL's remix transforms the song into a viciously noisy and sonically violent drum & bass track. Closing the album out is Revolution State's mix of "Decapitation," which attempts to add some melodic synth progressions to Haywire's riotous chants, making for a rather mellow ending to what is overall a very raucous affair.
In the end, Remix Riot proves to be exactly what one would expect from a remix album, with some tracks actually expanding and even improving on the originals, and some tracks simply drifting into the background and disappearing from the listener's psyche altogether. Credit should be given to Rachel Haywire for at least making some exceptional selections in Autoclav1.1, Vicious Alliance, BAAL, and Synthetic Dream Foundation as their remixes stand as excellent examples of what the modern industrial scene really has to offer, and giving her brand of electrified punk noise a most welcome jolt of creative energy. The rest is great for any DJ to fill the dance floor, and really, isn't that all we look for in a remix album?
After the clank and clamor of Out Out 2.Tr's treatment of "Army or Two," we launch into the acidic bass lines and thumping beats of Soman's reworking of "Stereotype," in which Haywire's rather unmelodic vocals actually match up pretty well, while Blank's mix of the same track attempts to infuse some trancelike futurepop, although the style doesn't quite work so well with the vocals despite some singularly interesting glitch effects. Uberbyte's Bill Hicks Was Right mix is notable for its inclusion of the late comedian's infamous quote, "Hitler had the right idea; he was just an underachiever," although the remix is little more than a hard-hitting dance floor track with Haywire's shouts given some nice manipulations to act as much as part of the beat and the bass line as they are vocals. Vicious Alliance churn out one of the best remixes on the album with their take on "Mean Enough Hot Enough," adding their militaristically epic swells and bass lines into the track, making it much more anthemic and satisfying, while Pulse State's Riot Grrl club mix of "Overrule" would be an easily forgettable dance floor filler if not for some beautifully crystalline vocoder effects thrown in. Leæther Strip's mix of "Game Called Life" packs a slight punch, but it's rather monotone and loses interest before long, while Autoclav1.1's Vivify mix of the song also ranks as one of the best of the album as Tony Young's massive orchestrations full of oscillating strings, twinkling piano textures, and organic percussion recreate what was a standard noise/EBM track into a beautiful work of ambient post-industrial bliss. Similarly, Synthetic Dream Foundation's mix of "Occult Casualty" evokes an ominous atmosphere with thrumming industrial beats underlying dark vocal manipulations, while BAAL's remix transforms the song into a viciously noisy and sonically violent drum & bass track. Closing the album out is Revolution State's mix of "Decapitation," which attempts to add some melodic synth progressions to Haywire's riotous chants, making for a rather mellow ending to what is overall a very raucous affair.
In the end, Remix Riot proves to be exactly what one would expect from a remix album, with some tracks actually expanding and even improving on the originals, and some tracks simply drifting into the background and disappearing from the listener's psyche altogether. Credit should be given to Rachel Haywire for at least making some exceptional selections in Autoclav1.1, Vicious Alliance, BAAL, and Synthetic Dream Foundation as their remixes stand as excellent examples of what the modern industrial scene really has to offer, and giving her brand of electrified punk noise a most welcome jolt of creative energy. The rest is great for any DJ to fill the dance floor, and really, isn't that all we look for in a remix album?
