Pitch Black: Echoes of the Night; The Adrian Sherwood Remixes (digital outlets)

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Pitch Black: Echoes of the Night; The Adrian Sherwood Remixes (digital outlets)

Elsewhere at Elsewhere Mike Hodgson – one half of Pitch Black alongside Paddy Free – explains how these four remixes of their material came into being. Have a look here.

So here let's just acknowledge how very different the results are from the source material on their 2007 Rude Mechanicals album.

The haunting opener Transient Transmission is twist of a twist: remixer Intercept takes an Adrian Sherwood remix of the original which also has added horns by David Fullwood. The result is like a dub distant cousin of someone you once knew.

The final piece – Sherwood dub mix of A Doubtful Sound also with Fullwood horns – closes the short selection on a more upbeat, skanking strut.

Between those points Third Light is a slightly unhinged and cleverly unanchored dub of echoes and voices from the dark laboratory and Sherwood's mix of 1000 Mile Drift gets a bass part from Doug Wimbish of Tackhead, and one of those voices you hear belongs to the great Lee Scratch Perry.

Screenshot_2024_09_04_at_4.11.11_PMThese singles-length tracks might just be teasers for further Sherwood mixes of Pitch Black's extensive catalogue.

Let's hope so, because although each one here is very different, the whole comes together as coherent, deep and entrancing.

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You can hear and buy this album at bandcamp here where it is also available on limited edition 10'' vinyl.

To read what Mike Hodgson says about this go here


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