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PHC 005EP
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"On this second of two collector-caliber, 180 gram, deluxe-pressed 12" releases in Halo Cyan's On the Brighter Side series of remixes, we find Scuba and FaltyDL investing the originals with their sense of the current landscape of dubstep and so-called 'purple' maneuverings, respectively -- and neither disappoints. Flipping the disc over, we've gotten Brooklyn's synth warlord Oneohtrix Point Never to examine Sasu's 'Funseeker' and apply a rich layer of sprinklingly light ambience atop the original. Similarly, Kompakt's Walls apply a pensively brooding twist to 'A Better Shore.'"
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PHC 003EP
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"Halo Cyan has taken Sasu's new full-length album and asked some of electronic music's biggest current names to have their hand at reimagining what the album's 'ur-disco patterns and textures' might sound like when filtered through the lens of techno, dubstep, and hypnagogic pop. On this first of two collector-caliber, 180 gram, deluxe-pressed 12" releases in Halo Cyan's On the Brighter Side volumes of remixes, we've included two of Sasu's original tracks (the only place one can hear them on vinyl) and paired them with re-workings by Redshape and Jori Hulkkonen. The first, Redshape's remix of '(Permission to) Avalanche,' has the German producer run the original's synth lines through an exaggerated series of 4/4 kick-drum punches and break-beats. Sasu's fellow Finland countryman Jori Hulkkonen takes 'Contaminate Her' and adds a slew of additional melodies and elastically thick bass elements."
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PHC 004CD
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"As part of the 2010 rebirth of Vladislav Delay-as-Sistol, he's recorded a startling new full-length record entitled On the Bright Side. Influenced and inspired by a range of a year's worth of experimentations -- with everything from vividly narcotic flashbacks and memories; to his production work and touring alongside the legendary Moritz von Oswald; to the vast array of ideas that Ripatti immersed himself in while reading aboard long flights from one gig to the next (or when squirreled away at his new home on the remote island of Hailuoto in northern Finland). Yet almost despite all these experimentations, On the Bright Side is a surprisingly bold, poppy record, sounding far closer to a Luomo record than, say, a Vladislav Delay record. Ripatti has taken the brightness of the album's title and wholly literalized and given it corporeal form with a range of garishly vibrant and buoyant synth melodies, alongside stroboscopic basslines that glitter loudly from one track to the next...each somehow managing to retain an air of practiced delicacy throughout the mix."
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PHC 001EP
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"In the wake of news that Ripatti has remastered his earliest album for a deluxe 2CD reissue, pubs like Pitchfork and Resident Advisor have already posted excitedly anticipatory news of these 2010 releases, including an all-new full-length CD. But first up, prepping audiences for these two albums, is our Sistol Remakes 12" EP, featuring current day contemporaries of Vladislav Delay's dancefloor productions. The 12" features reworkings of the 1999 material by 2010-era techno and electronic luminaries such as John Tejada, Carsten Nicolai as Alva Noto, FaltyDL, and [a]pendics.shuffle."
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