Pitchfork Forkcast: New Music: Matthew Dear: "Deserter (Four Tet Remix)"

New Music: Matthew Dear: "Deserter (Four Tet Remix)"

Kieran Hebden as a remixer is not generally a minimalist. He tends to drop anchor with an isolated element or two and then saturate the colors of everything formerly relegated to the background. On his B-side take on the lead single from Matthew Dear's upcoming full-length, Asa Breed, Hebden moves in a couple of directions at once. He takes a fantastic new wave song and technofies it while simultaneously making it more organic. The percussion swoops in from jazz, all cymbal splashes and woodblock taps, while the tinkly keyboard from the original with more space sounds like the kind of one-handed melody Aphex Twin might come up with. But you can almost see the red blips moving from left to right on the tightly sequenced synths pulse through, hinting at the 4/4 kick looming somewhere out there in the future. And when it arrives, finally, with less than a month to go, it hints at a world on the other side that exists only in our imagination.

[from "Deserter" 10" and digital single; due 05/08/07 on Ghostly International]

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