Following on from this summer's technoid dystopia double-drop by Mushrooms Project, we've assembled a team of sun enchanters to disassemble and sprinkle some of their secret dust on the original tracks. This is the first in a two-part release covering a breadth of musical styles, personalities and sunrise/sunset moments, with love from the ensemble to your USB.
First up is Boys' Shorts, sunglasses on, emerging into daylight with a head shaking 7am house stomper. It's that rollercoaster acid house sensation with a spoonful of morning nectar, vitamin D for the ears, and your eyes rattling between them. That's Boy'Shorts with their accelerated take on Sun Up, opening the first part of our remix project.
Middle section is provided by an elusive outfit called The.Deal. They approach Sun Up from a horizontal perspective, stripping back the layers of pads and machinery to reveal something else entirely. Like a magic ruse you're presented with successive illusions, zeroing in on sub bass, percussions and wildly oscillating, auto detuned aural malfunction - until midway through, a strange sensation like the ground disappearing beneath you. A work of art on its own wavelength, coursing a chart to its personal planet.
Lastly is Sibson's Still Dark dub of Sun Up, which takes the original parts and throws a host of acoustic elements and melodies into the mix. The prime addition is a second-hand marimba found by the Landswehr canal in Berlin's Neukölln district, one languorous pandemic Sunday afternoon - the day after having a dream about a sacred marimba that lay just out of reach. Birds chirp atop the hiss of machines and rattling acid vibrations, shakers lead the way to a hilltop from a dream, where the first rays of light glint over the horizon in perpetuity.
Strictly digital, strictly sunrise. Good times are still coming ;)