Artist : Dakota Suite
Title : The Night Just Keeps Coming In
Genre : Avantgarde
Year : 2009
Date : 12/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 16
Label : Navigators Yard
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 76:39 min
Size : 84,1 MB
Tracklist:
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01.One Day Without Harming You 03:18
(Machinefabriek Remix)
02.This Failing Sea 02:25
(Peter Broderick Remix)
03.Hands Swollen With Grace 06:14
(Jasper Leyland Remix)
04.A Quietly Gathering Tragedy 03:40
(Hauschka Remix)
05.All The Love I Had Was Not Enough 06:38
(Elegi Remix)
06.Very Early One Morning On Old Road 05:14
(Deaf Center Remix)
07.The End Of Trying Part I 03:10
(Arve Henricksen Remix)
08.The End Of Trying Part II 07:43
(Greg Haines Remix)
09.The End Of Trying Part III 03:36
(Hannu Remix)
10.The End Of Trying Part IV (Tape Remix) 03:15
11.Een Langzaam Lekkende Wond 06:09
(Swod Remix)
12.The Night Keeps Coming In 04:56
(The Boats Remix)
13.How Could You Let Me Go 03:09
(Jacaszek Remix)
14.Second Hand Light 04:13
(Emanuele Errante Remix)
15.Things We Lost Along The Way 06:59
(Loscil Remix)
16.Z-Cars (Dakota Suite Remix) 06:00
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76:39 min
From Boomkat:
Not so much a remix album as a remake of
Dakota Suite's The End Of Trying long-
player, reconstructed according to the
original record's tracklisting with the
help of a list of artists who might be
said to represent a kind of Boomkat in-
house favourites list: Peter Broderick,
Machinefabriek, Arve Henriksen, Deaf
Center, The Boats - not to mention just
about everyone on the Miasmah label's
roster. The assembled contributors make
up a truly starry line-up.
Significantly, there's a very natural
sense of harmoniousness and correlation
between Dakota Suite's gloomy neo-
classical originals and the remixed end
products on offer here, and while
Machinefabriek's keen to make a careful
digital dissection of 'One Day Without
Harming You', the spirit of the source
material is very much preserved. Peter
Broderick's overhaul of 'This Failing
Sea' barely grazes the Satie-esque piano
phrasings, instead opting for a
lightness of touch with field recordings
scattered in the background. Hauschka
brings some sparkle to 'A Quietly
Gathering Tragedy', tinkering away with
electronics and music box mechanics, the
result of which is an album standout.
It's a relatively rare moment of
implicitly upbeat dynamics, something
shattered by Elegi's comprehensively and
brilliantly dour contribution. Following
on in a not dissimilar fashion is a Deaf
Center remix that clashes string
harmonies together with a discordant
violence, revisiting the kind of subtle
cinematic constructions heard on their
Pale Ravine album. Hannu lightens the
tone momentarily, managing to make 'The
End Of Trying Part III' sound firmly
like one of his own tracks, full of
wintry xylophone and warm filtrations
before Tape bring a krautrock-influenced
organ drone into play and Swod (with
another album highlight) add rich vinyl
crackle and field recorded textures to
the melancholy string swirls of 'Een
Langzaam Lekkende Wond'. As remix
collections go, The Night Just Keeps
Coming In is an outstanding album, sure
to please fans of the original material
as well as followers of the various
esteemed artist's who've taken part in
the project. Hugely recommended.
www.dakotasuite.com