Description:	REMIX CD on Distraction
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Electronica / IDM
	Label:	Distraction
	Price:	£10.29
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

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...according to our Brett on 08 October 2008.

I swear the second track on this one sounds exactly like John Fahey covering Guns n' Roses' classic 'Don't Cry' over a backpack hip-hop beat, it's fucking weird. Got to respect W. Axl Rose PhD's denim cutoff hotpants in the comically overwrought video though; how in FUCK did the original orange goblin end up with Stephanie Seymour back then? That's the first mystery I'll be asking god to solve when I get through those pearly gates.. Check out how high Slash can fling a Les Paul too, them shits are heavy! The Stoke shredder's obviously got at least one healthy pair of pythons in his snakepit. Anyway, the CD I'm doing a good job of not reviewing at all features people like Piano Magic, Port Royal and Depth Affect remixing d_rradio tracks with generally pleasant results. 'Pleasant' being about the best word I can think of to describe this, it's quite nice as background music but it's not something I find massively engaging, the mixture of electronica, hip-hop, glitch and whatnot is generally a bit too polite for my tastes but the quality is very obviously there if this is more your bag than it is mine. I'm off to play that Haemorraging Foetus LP we got in last week all night while cursing myself in a cracked mirror. See you!

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...according to our Phil on 08 October 2008.

Death Row Radio (or d_rradio to you and me) have had a number of things out now and here's a CD of remixes of said band by such electronic luminaries as Cathode, Manual, Populous, Depth Affect, The Matinee Orchestra, Ylid, Juxta Phone, Piano Magic, Matthew Rozeik and Port Royal. There should be 10 mixes there if I've remembered to list every one. Certainly fans of the Morr label will lap this up. It treads that indietronica path favoured by said Arian funsticks. I quite like the term wrongtronica or wrongica but it's not really appropriate in this case as this isn't wrong. I just wanted to write wrongtronica as it's ridiculous. I enjoyed this beast anyway and if you liked the album you'll be more than interested in checking what some of the above folks have done to the tracks. d_rradio Remixed is CD only!

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What their label says...

When d_rradio’s three-years-in-the-making self-titled opus maximus hit the racks back in March 2008, they set the bar dangerously high for electronica.  The album swiftly stacked up the plaudits:  Silent Ballet declared that the album would “undoubtedly go down as one of the premier electronic releases of the year”, Rob da Bank proclaiming it an “absolutely incredible electronic album”, with Losing Today calling it “an enchanting and exquisite experience”.  Hell, it even had reviewers at The Wire breaking into a smile.
There are a wide range of remixes on offer here: from the crackling chambertronics of Cathode’s rework of Paper Soul, to Manual’s exemplary dark, opaque version of A Life Alive, through to the beautiful beat-driven Populous’ aptly-named Twisted remix of Rest of Your Life.  The journey continues, with Depth Affect’s skittering, icily minimal re-rub of Bag of Lovely nestling alongside The Matinee Orchestra’s Victorian Clockwork techno take on Wish For More Wishes and Ylid’s magnificently haunting vocal rework of Blow Out.  Maintaining a suitably high standard are Juxta Phona turning So Long into a juddering glitchfest, Piano Magic’s childlike and sublime reworking of Way Out, Matthew Rozeik’s sombre yet swirling light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel version of Lifted, and finally Port-Royal’s dramatic revamp of Long Way Home. Above all, ‘. . .remixed’ is an album that retains what is so great about d_rradio – eschewing the blandscape coffee-table Warp-alikes and displaying that electronic music can be diverse, invigorating, soulful and, above all, human.Tracklist : 1/Paper Soul (Cathode remix) 2/A Life Alive (First Days of Spring remix by Manual) 3/Rest Of Your Life (Twisted by Populous) 4/ Bag Of Lovely (Depth Affect remix) 5/Wish For More Wishes (The Matinee Orchestra remix) 6/ Blow Out (Let's Build Forests remix by Ylid) 7/ So Long (Juxta Phona remix) 8/ Way Out (Piano Magic remix) 9/ Lifted (Purple remix by Matthew Rozeik) 10/ Long Way Home (Port-Royal remix)