Smalltown Supersound follow up Carmen Villain’s corking debut LP “Sleeper” by flicking through their rolodex (or probably twitter these days) and hitting up some top production pedigree for a remix EP. Peaking Lights, JD Twitch (Optimo) and Bjørn Torske kindly oblidge with three extended, expansive and extraordinary psychedelic dancefloor excursions. The Peaking Lights remix fills the A-side with a disorientating swirl of drum machine exotica, dancehall sub abuse and krautrock synths. Carmen’s vocals are echo drenched and turned into a hazy drone which collides blissfully with the Balearic string swell, helping to provide the immersive quality which oozes out of the speakers.
On the flipside, JD Twitch takes us to the darkside with a hollow and eerie industrial reshape of “How Much” . Ghostly vocals and haunting synths set the tone and mesh perfectly with the moody drum rhythms. Among all these clattering and ricochetting drums, even an instrument as cheery as brass manages to sound disturbingly like screams. Finally, Norse disco merchant, Bjørn Torske takes the midnight express to the sweat and swelter of a Souk on his sprawlign disco mix. Slinking bongos create the hypnotic rhythm from which the eastern guitars, percolating synths and discordant drones emerge. The bassline is simple and effective and the aesthetic is super smacky on a mix which is more or less a strung out cousin to Lindstrom & Prins Thomas’ “Turkish Delight”.
Smalltown Supersound
Andre Bratten – Math Ilium Ion (Smalltown Supersound)
Dan Lissvik – Midnight LP (Smalltown Supersound)
Rundgren, Lindstrøm & Nikolaisen’s – Runddans Remixes (Smalltown Supersound)
Carmen Villain – Lifeissin (Smalltown supersound)
Lindstrom – Rà-àkõ-st/Eg-ged-osis (Feedelity/Smalltown Supersound)
