Remixes 2024-2025

In De Nineties, the word “remix” felt dirty to me, with memories of ‘Jive Bunny’ and ‘Crazy Frog’ still hurting my brain and a standard suite of 4x4 remixes thickening up every single to get it to that E.P status. But the term changed for the positive during a listening party: Bjork - Telegram.

We were quiet through every ‘remix’ in that E.P. Re-imagined and completely different than the originals: composed, re-performed, re-written, rearranged with some performed live. The space that Bjork gave other musicians was vast and permissive - she like a few other artists of the 90’s created a space for broad and diverse self expression and creativity, a hallmark of that era.

I adored working with this vocal. And as per my tradition I purposely didn’t listen to the original track until release day, and of course it was incredible touch of the earholes from Composer/Producer Filippe at https://www.rayrecordings.com

My cut-and-collage style is almost an abomination to the beautiful vocals of Jessie Grace but… whaddyagonnado?

There are some cracking remixes on the EP, including one of my favorites by Welsh modular synth lord, Blaen, .

This track actually hurt. And I loved it. Taking 2 weeks to write 3 imposter-syndrome-riddled versions that I hated.
After some music-nerd-rage, and deleting 140GB of sadness, this 4th version was born in a few hours just in time to hit the deadline.

Collaborations


I am super lucky to be collaborating and performing with a few artists: Anil Sebastian/Ila, Jessie Grace, Becca Lovelace (my band for 12 years). Arranging and playing drums with Becca for her heavily-themed stories has been one of the great joys of my life: rarely a typical downbeat Becca would approach me with surreal arrangements, often a mix of time signatures (6, 5, 11…) and was given a blank slate to write motifs and stories, he sub-plot of her gorgeous songs..