Union Versions

Marconi Union are an ambient/ electronic trio from Manchester with a dozen albums behind them dating back to 2003 and most recent one in the middle of 2025, The Fear Of Never Landing. Last month a remix EP of three tracks from the album came out, remixes of Marconi Union by Pye Corner Audio and Carbon Based Lifeforms plus a new version by MU themselves. 

Carbon Based Lifeforms remix of Eight Miles High Alone takes a synth arpeggio and builds around it, a slowly simmering, uplifting version of the track with vocal sighs, synth whooshes and a voice fading in and out. It's an electronic dream, the sort of track that has been made using machines but could only have been created by humans, full of moments and pauses, pulsing synths and atmospheres. Life affirming sounds that seem to celebrate just the act of existing. 

Pye Corner Audio, a regular on these pages, remixed In Motion- a deep synth chord intro, some topline notes that dance about and then the thud of a kickdrum and FXed choral sounds and we're off into rhythmic, analogue rave territory. Forward momentum. Walls of synths. A little drama. 

If those two aren't enough- and getting past them is a job, each track begs you to replay it as soon as it fades out- there's a remix of Cloudsurfing by Marconi Union, a reinterpretation that sends the original down a synth pulse tunnel, the sort of track that plays with montages of futuristic cityscapes, speeding 22nd century vehicles flying through seventy mile long underpasses beneath the sea, Marconi Union filtered through a Detroit retro- futurism. 

Three pieces of vivid, emotive and hypnotic electronic gold. TFONLEPRMX can be found at Bandcamp. Highly recommended.