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Ending the brief hiatus that followed the ‘Great Lengths’ LP and accompanying world tour Martyn and 3024 usher in the new decade with a brace of remixes from the deepest recesses of the quasi- house community.

Martyn

First out the gates is 3024-006, helmed by a pair of artists as unique as they are elusive; Zomby and Redshape.

Easily one of the most talked about new producers of the last few years Zomby continues to evolve upwards and out, never settling on a particular style and constantly twisting the technicolour DNA of his output. Those smeared neon fingerprints are all over his reworking of Hear Me’ which lights up clattering percussion and a black hole of a bass drop with layers of sparkling neon crystal SID chip melodies.

Zomby

Tackling ‘Seventy Four’ on the flip side is determinedly enigmatic Techno classicist Redshape. Responsible for a string of unashamedly human releases since 2006, his rich organic sound has recently caught the imagination of a 4×4 scene beginning to look beyond icy [and boring] minimalism for inspiration. A highlight of the forthcoming Fabric 50: Martyn mix CD, the original’s glowering pulse is carefully built on with walls of murky analogue warmth and hissing industrial ambience before reaching a monolithic climax.

Redshape

An integral part of every 3024 release, Erosie once again blesses this release with his inimitable visual style switching up to a monochrome design this time around.

3024006
Martyn
A) Hear Me (Zomby Remix)
B) Seventy Four (Redshape Remix)

The second half of the Great Lengths Remixes package offers 3 more vividly contrasting interpretations of album tracks.

Almost a year on from the release of his debut album “One” and with ‘Saviour of Techno’ plaudits still bouncing off concrete walls, Berghain lynchpin Ben Klock turns in a remix of Is This Insanity that distils everything inspirational about both the club and city he calls home. Spaceape’s cracked vocal is welded to a sort of cavernous piston driven groove while traces of the original’s melody fractured into the briefest of shards fight their way to the surface only to sink back into the percussive smog.

Ben Klock

Located well outside of the heavily scrutinised UK hype centres, Manchester’s rising star Illum Sphere continues to hone his already distinct sound on the flipside’s Brilliant Orange reworking. A clanking off kilter groove rubs up against an extended mutation of the original melody that pushes the track towards a poignant climax, evoking all the ache of reaching for the stars and landing squarely on one’s face.

Illum Sphere

Taking us into extra time is an exclusive to the digital release, Roska‘s ‘Speechless’ version of the dBridge voiced ‘These Words’. A prolific producer and in demand remixer, Roska debuts a new side of his sound that prioritizes space and atmospherics over the dance floor. Stripping the track down to a skittering insect house and minimal percussion focuses full attention on dBridge’s mournful vocal, until muted bass and woodblocks creep into the arrangement and bring proceedings to an uneasy close.

Roska

3024007
Martyn
A) Is This Insanity (Ben Klock Remix)
B) Brilliant Orange (Illum Sphere’s #14 Mix)

C) These Words Ft. dBridge (Roska’s Speechless Remix) – Digital Only

Both releases are due to be released in January 2010. Exclusively distributed by S.T. Holdings.

Links:
http://3024world.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/martyndnb
http://www.erosie.net

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