'Please Don't Tell Me That's Your Remix' (PDTMTYR) features fifteen artists' re-workings of tracks that originally appeared on Tim Koch's 'Please Don't Tell Me That's Your Volvo' album,
his second full-length on Aural Industries.
Warp's ambient-techno of the early 90s has been an obvious reference point for Koch and his contemporaries from the start, but on this collection the evolution away from the template is complete.
By now these slightly melancholic moods, reminiscent melodies, wistful wibbles and electro bloops, and occasional glitchy microsounds, underpinned by slinky grooves or skittery percussion
have become a kind of lingua franca of international post-millennial intelligent dance music (IDM).
And internationalism is the order of the day here, with artists ranging from across the post-digital musical world. First off is New Zealander Jet Jaguar's down tempo rendition of 'Obatem By Night',
presenting us with a dubbed-out trip-hoppy groove embellished with echoey elliptical keyboard fragments. Next stop is the U.S. and Proem's 'Rzswingrmx', on which he takes us into the darkest corner
of his reverb unit and proceeds to assault us with thudding chattering post-Autechrean percussion and a series of wonderfully snaking wriggling atonal synth motifs.
Proem also provides the wonderful artwork proving he is an artist of many talents. On to the U.K. via a smart piece of C64 retro-electro from Goto80+Extraboy,
then to Australian Bloq's explorations of rhythmic timbres and tempos and Mr Projectile gives us backsliding glitch-ridden rhythm track, flip-flopping and fluttering to offset
the mellow keyboard loops and deep bass underpinning. Elsewhere the retro-electro-funk contingent are well served by the likes of Quark Kent, Adrien75, Vim!, and Coffee Table.
The recently emerging strain of Russian electronica is well represented by Novel23, who choose to highlight the melancholic resonance of Koch's keyboard motif for 'Obatem By Night'.
Indie-tronica leanings are displayed by Ten & Tracer and his subtle atmospherics. More experimental takes are provided by Bauri, Raven, and Yunx. All in all a strong and cohesive compendium,
PDTMTYR provides the listener with an enjoyable overview of the current fertile state of the art of the sonic architecture of IDM.
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