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Thursday 4 August 2022

Starlight

I've already written about A Mountain Of One's Stars Planets Dust Me, one of 2022's album highlights, a sun- baked, existential fever dream, Balearic cosmic dance spliced with prog and tripped out yacht rock. Some of it feels like the music you hear when you've nodded off on a sun-lounger and are just waking up, not quite sure where or when you are. The song Stars- all of this with a sunset bound guitar solo running through the middle of it- has been remixed and was released as a single at the end of July.

The pick of the three remixes is from Glok. Regular readers here will know that Glok is Ride's Andy Bell, a man currently responsible for two of this year's other best albums (his solo album Flicker and Glok's Pattern Recognition) and who has toured the UK and Europe twice already, once playing his solo Space Station set and once with Ride playing Nowhere. The Glok Starlight Dub is a delight, all echo laden vocals, chuggy drum machine rhythm and lots of space, stripped back Mediterranean dub.  


The Yo Miro remix is faster, smoother and sleeker, a poolside disco version. The Arveene Remix shuffles in, piano to the fore with hints of the Hill Street Blues theme and then the synth bassline starts to bubble away, a lush laidback groove. 



3 comments:

Khayem said...

Walter also posted this yesterday and I commented that I'd missed A Mountain Of One...until your post mentioned that you've featured them here previously. D'oh!

One of the risks of reading stuff on my phone rather than on a computer if that I often forget to follow or bookmark the links at the time. I really should have switched on to A Mountain Of One, especially the remixes, a lot sooner.

Khayem said...

And the GLOK remix is superb, as you say.

Swiss Adam said...

I can't recommend the album highly enough Khayem, my most played album this year I think.