Cold Cave - Life Magazine Remixes

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 24 Jun, 2010.

Hey, this is my favourite tune of theirs! Let's see what people do to it. Arthur Baker starts off doing a totally blaring, jackhammer job on it that doesn't sound a million miles away from something you'd expect from a Mika Vainio mix. Eventually the tune proper emerges, as sweet as ever, only more beefed-up and muscular for maximum dancefloor slayage. Nice. Optimo weirdly sound more like Arthur Baker than Arthur Baker does, giving it a total electro-funk makeover which'll also guarantee nodding heads. Pantha Du Prince brings the minimal, stripping the original down to its base elements before reconstructing it, almost completely unrecognizable, into mechanical, at times near-industrial grooves. Band member and general noisy bugger Prurient unsurprisingly conjures tons of scuzzy fuzz/fuzzy scuzz and the result ends up somewhere near the ground the early Cold Cave releases covered, the pristine production of the original a long-distant memory. A very strong and varied 12", which is surely about all you can ask for from a remix project!

Following on from debut album ‘Love Comes Close’ (“a piece of spectral, spectacular electronic pop” – The Guardian), New York’s Cold Cave release an EP of remixes for ‘Life Magazine’

•   A live favourite, ‘Life Magazine’ sees Caralee McElroy’s vocals take centre stage beside a maelstrom of pulsating beats.
•   The accompanying remixes illustrate the core elements that make the band – the dichotomy of leftfield noise and dancefloor pop sensibilities.
•   The A-side features a remix from legendary producer Arthur Baker (Afrika Bambaataa, New Order) whose efforts transform ‘Life Magazine’ into an epic, hard-hitting proposition poised to ignite many a dancefloor.
•   DJ duo Optimo, whose notorious Glaswegian club night closed recently provide the Espacio remix.
•   The more outré B-side contains re-workings from minimal techno mastermind Pantha Du Prince and the noise artist Prurient (aka Cold Cave’s Dominick Fernow).
•   "The dark side of synth. Scything sonic bliss“ - The Guardian.
•   “Danceable, dark and instantly infectious” – Stereogum.
•   “One of the most compelling, obsession-encouraging records to come out this year” – FACT.
•   “Yearning synth-pop songs wreathed in halos of noise static“ – NME.