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  NUTE005 - The Last Sound - Fina/Cold/Fire by nuterecords

Featuring remixes from Gland & Conduit and Magnatize, amongst others, this forthcoming EP by the Last Sound on Nute seems an interesting proposition.

From the Nute Soundcloud account:

'Fire Spun' refines into a joyous, daylight melancholy - at once immensely majestic, deeply comforting and sweetly infectious. 'Cold Is The Brittle Hand' shimmers with a brief meticulous sweep of platinum and vocals of glossolalia that flow serenely into 'Fina Rotore' - a glorious shimmer-pop which swoops and floats and morphs into a subtle space-pop drone.

An unnamed, unordered jumble of parts of these three tracks were then given to a handpicked collection of artists to remix. The results are blended into a 30 minute, 9 track mix, with segues between the tracks synthesised by Whirling Hall of Knives (WHOK). Gland & Conduit (aka Meljoann and Herv) open it up by recontextualizing digital residue into a variety of melodic & rhythmic structures. Gauzy glitch and crackle swarm over a pulsing drone into the first of four otherwordly WHOK segues. Ikeaboy takes the melody of 'Fire Spun' and produces a wonderfully stripped-down remix - foreboding and sublime. After WHOK segue #2, John Cohen (one half of the awesome Dead Fader) produces a deep mix of textural & emotional feel. WHOK segue #3 fades into the Magnetize mix which opens with a maelstrom of murkiness before a rumbling bass drum arises out of the atmospheric eeriness and the track opens up to a glacial dirge - strangely melodic and dreamlike. Finally WHOK segue #4 leads us to the Shaolin Wooden Men (one alias of Australian underground legend Ollie Olsen) mix - a textural soundscape full of ambient shimmer, gently oscillating melody, mysterious noises, soothing drones, and occasional beats that sound sampled from a mad scientist's laboratory - and amazing it is too.