Remixes January-June 2015

Hitoshi Yasui aka soundcloud.com/chairhouse is an artist from Japan on Soundcloud who I follow as closely as I can. The mission of Chairhouse "is to create gentle, calm, peaceful, beautiful, relaxing piano music... I set an aim of the number of upload track to 4,536." As I write this there are 550 tracks uploaded and I think one new track is added each day. It is often my musical highlight of the day to hear a new Chairhouse track. I asked Chairhouse a few months ago if I could remix one of these tracks and was told I could. I then worried I could not do this beautiful music the justice and respect it deserved. But then recently I heard track #534 - Aska Wind Terpsichore - and had an idea to develop the simple Piano piece. Thus my remix attempt started. here is the link for the original track; soundcloud.com/chairhouse/aska...terpsichore-534 For me the remix attempt is also filled with my own memories of Japan, I visited this country 10 years ago and had 3 wonderful weeks, studying, meeting people and visiting, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka and Tokyo.

Remix of the Holly Herndon track 'Chorus' from the 2015 LP Platform released on 4AD. I'm very impressed with this artist and was totally blown away when I bought this LP with the style and production. It is music seeking new futures and new forms of expression. I totally recommend you go out and buy her work. This is the stand out track from her new LP and is remixed out of pure love for music.

This is my remix of the track from the new Ikue Mori album 'In the light of shadows' - 2015 on Tzadik records. Ikue Mori is one of my favourite artists and I've listened to her new album a lot lately, I've always loved the experimental nature of her work and have wanted to make music like this for a long time. Enjoy. (London - 17/05/2015.)

I knew when I attempted to remix this and listened to the stems that I just had to let that violin breath without too much interference at some point in the track. I also wanted the track to lift, pick up and then fall and the piano pieces are just so perfect to use, I wish my mates would give me snippets of sound like this when I collaborate with them. As someone who has been listening to' Be Still My Bleeping Heart' for 5 years on a weekly basis (often in awe and tears) it made me very happy to remix this work, I loved every minute of hearing the bones of a Digitonal track and getting to pull them apart. Thanks Andy and Enjoy my remix x

"Rather then setting out to make enjoyable music, the purpose of this piece was to make the listeners skin crawl.... if death was born, then death will die." Chris Cummins. Remix of the original by Audio Obscura April 2015.

Remix of the final track from the Aphex Twin LP Syro. This version also features a field recording from within an electric van being driven from a car park in Gerrard Street, China Town through Soho to Charing Cross Road in the center of London early on a winters morning.