New Music: Minus the Bear: "Fulfill the Dream (Old Italy Remix)" (Tyondai Braxton) [MP3]
Tyondai Braxton turns Minus the Bear's spiky, mathed-up new wave tune into a fractured dance number, nicking and processing minute instrumental phrases to create beat fodder. The structure of the original is somewhat mirrored in the way the beat breaks down where the spacey bridge used to be. The tiniest guitar or synth squiggle is eligible to take center stage in Braxton's looping, diced-up interpretation, which in some ways echoes the modular approach he takes on stage. In the end, the remix is just as catchy and complex as its source, and stands perfectly well on its own as an inventive re-imagining of the assembly plan for a song's most basic raw materials.
MP3: > Minus the Bear "Fulfill the Dream (Old Italy Remix)"
[from Interpretaciones del Oso; out now on Suicide Squeeze] | [ORDER]