Remixes fascinate me. They also speak as voluminously about the person, allowing their music to have another day in the sun, a whole new life, at the hands of another creative, as they do about the mind of the person doing the reshaping. It takes a brave artist to hand over their sonic babies and stand back, trusting the results. But those are the artists that we need, people who understand that a song’s story never ends, not as long as the originator is happy to see it reshaped, reimagined, reborn, and perhaps not just once.
And so it is here. Whereas in Aarktica’s original form, “Trick of the Light” was a place where ambient atmospheres ran with cinematic richness, to create a floating coupling of dream and drive, in The Ellipsist’s hands, it heads into more downbeat, trip-hop grooved, urban soul territory. And the results are gorgeous.
Without losing its wonderful filmic quality, it becomes more spacious, deeper, and darker, more brooding, slightly less serene, more seductive, and intoxicatingly sensual. How’s that for a makeover?
The original take of “Trick of the Light” serves as the remix’s traveling companion and makes a wonderful point of reference, proving that the right combination of artists and collaborators can produce minor musical miracles. Take a brave originator and an imaginative remixer, and you end up with not just a new version of an existing song but a whole new chapter in the story of both creatives.
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