boom bip - closed shoulders (clouddead remix)

from another vinyl purchase comes this one and it was one that where the names were the right ones, even though i had dipped my toes into all of their catalogues. i own this on the "from left to right ep" and is the second single off boom bip's third outing "seed to sun" on former warp sublabel lex records. along with the title track there is three remixes of album track from clouddead, venetian snares and boards of canada.

while i may have bought it for the remix by the latter, aaron funk's and clouddeads remix are far more interesting.venetian snares' take on "the unthinkable" which featured canadian alternative rapper buck 65 is insane in all the right ways. clouddead's version of "closed shoulders" is something else and i've heard it so many times because it's that haunting, intense and beautiful.

i used it in a downtempo mix of mine from 2006 where it followed after miles davis' immense rendition of ahbez's compisition "nature boy". it then into a lenghty dark passage consisting of patrick wicklacz/ambient field's "philéas fogg", off his "five jules verne heroes" ep on canadian netlabel no-type's sublabel nishi, together with this long droning composition by argentinian's anla courtis and pablo reche called "transistores de aire", on spanish netlabel conv.

the reason that i've heard this song the amount that i have apart from the fact that it's awesome is because that mix was i something that i've listened to about a hundred times, maybe more. it was something for everyday listening and something that i listened to as i went to sleep and i always decked out about twenty-thirtee minutes in. i've never reflected on it before know but with the haunting content of the song, i should have gotten more nightmares and dreams where angry women are screaming fuck you intensely at me and etc. that really didn't happen as theatre of tragedy's former singer liv kristine krull's sweet voice would enter the mix about ten minutes after that and i think it balanced that out.

but if i'm going to go into more detail on the song itself then as mentioned, it features vocal samples from an upset women but it's part of the atmosphere. clouddead took the tempo down greatly from boom bip's original and flipped all of the sounds that boom bip brought to the table. there is a more focus on atmosphere than the beat, which itself is trawling along in a really slow pace. the reverbed and echoed sounds all mesh together to form this track and while it is a moodpiece, it also tells a story with all of the emotional ups and downs.

this is the kind of music that should be on bigger ambient and downtempo compilations as it has bite but i don't see that ever happening.

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