found out on this one when party ben put it up on his soundcloud since i'm a fan of his material ever since i heard a mashup of his from a few years ago. there he put together mylo's "paris 400" and tegan & sara's "walking with a ghost" into a perfect mesh.
but about this one i didn't know how the original sounded like since i'm usually the last one to hear the latest radiohead since well, i'm not that big of a fan. since the original lends well to remixing i have seen many take a crack at it and ben here did a mighty fine job.
much like the original it's a slow groover and based on atmosphere but he added some substantial beats and sounds to fit the vision of the track. i liked what he did with the track and piano from the original is well incorporated but expanded on with harmony rather than just simple chords.
but what really sealed the deal was the second half of the track where he brings in this sparse waggly acidline and a soaring pad. it brings more atmosphere to the track when the drums get more intense along with the acidline that gets more resonant and lovelier.
ben claims his inspirations for this was a remix of a jamie xx track done by nadastrom & sabo along with some of gus gus works but i only maybe hear that in the first half. the second half reminds me more of some mid 90's hardfloor, from the time when they introduced their "da damn phreak noize phunk" ep's and moniker. they started bridging out to breakbeat stuff instead of their usual acid house/techno works.
it was things like acid breaks and electro but initially it sounded like raw breakbeats, at times some tr909 enforcements and their twiddling of the tb303. i can hear things like "dubdope" and their remix of depeche mode's "it's no good" within this track and it's not because those two are favourites of mine.
i really recommend this much like most of party ben's other works. also hardfloors material if that sidetrack wasn't clear enough for you.
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and buy hardfloor stuff here (junodownload)
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