ARTIST: Alias
TITLE: Collected Remixes
LABEL: Anticon
GENRE: Electronic
BITRATE: 176kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 55m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-05-15
RIP DATE: 2007-04-25
Track List
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1. What You Gave Away (The One AM 4:48
Radio)
2. Into The Trees (13 & God) 4:00
3. Exodus Damage (John 4:58
Vanderslice)
4. Marsh Of Epidemics (Christ) 6:14
5. Alienation (Lali Puna) 4:32
6. Clue (Lunz) 5:08
7. Stay Awake (Boy in Static) 4:20
8. Crush (Lucky Pierre) 4:52
9. Given Ground (Giardini Di Miro) 4:24
10. Karmic Retribution/Funny Stick 6:46
(Sixtoo)
11. 9:24 Cigarette Version 2 (Alias 5:16
& Tarsier)
Release Notes:
Tripping back through AliasÆ discography, itÆs evident that Brendon Whitney is a
man on a mission. Over six full-length albums, several EPs and numerous
collaborations, Alias has been, well, for lack of a more artful term,
diversifying. From group projects (Deep Puddle Dynamics, So Called Artists) to
solo rap outings (The Other Side of the Looking Glass) to wordless electronic
compositions (Muted) to improvisatory instrumental duets (Lillian), heÆs proven
steadfast in whatever marketplace he enters. Most recently, 2006Æs
Brookland/Oaklynùin which Alias plays the accompanist to singer TarsierÆs dusky
croonùearned Brendan heavy stock with critics and fans, and with the release of
Collected Remixesùa hand-picked compilation of AliasÆ greatest work as a remix
artistùthere need be no question: Alias is, indeed, the owner of a damn
respectable portfolio.
Here Alias reworks, reinvents, remixes and otherwise welds his personal touch to
the respective works of a wide range of peers, friends and fans tied together by
the old good people/honest music bond. The modern slowcore of the One AM Radio
is given a crystalline rebirth; indie folk-pop patriarch John Vanderslice is
wrapped in vellum and dropped into a deep chasm; the freewheeling electronics of
Lucky Pierre (Arab StrapÆs Aiden Moffat) are grounded below the songÆs sweeping
strings; Italian post-rock quintet Giardini Di Miro are taken on a midnight
bar-run; Canadian hip-hop virtuoso Sixtoo is chopped, screwed, and rethreaded
into a nasty, heaving work of aural art; Notwist sister band Lali Puna is sunken
to ocean floor; the avant electronics of Christ. and Eno favorite Lunz are given
new beauteous beat-driven existence; and Boy in StaticÆs electro-pop minimalism
is reimagined in dub. Also, AnticonÆs own Yoni Wolf (Why?) drops by to do vocal
duty on a lost jam session from 13 & God (Themselves and the Notwist), hijacking
DoseÆs lyrics from across the album while Alias arranges it all to a jaunty
winter pulse. Finally, a second, heavier version of Alias & TarsierÆs ô9:24
Cigaretteö (from the Plane that Draws a White Line EP) is served over melodica
and drum breaks.
Most impressively, this collection of import-only, lost or limited release
tracks plays like an album, each song the proud new owner of the Alias
trademark: that alternately searing and frostbitten production, reverberating
and crunchy, built of considered keystrokes, finely cut click ÆnÆ pop, guitar
pickings, and drum machine ballistics. With yet another accomplishment in his
weighty profile, Alias will be returning to the studio in 2007 to craft a new
solo instrumental LP.