Cosmos (Remixes)

Cosmos (Remixes)

Tadeo [Apnea]

7 May, 2008 | 7.20PM

• Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
• Written by: Richard Brophy 2

Tadeo aka Miguel Sar must have friends in high places.

The Spanish producer, who runs Cyclical Tracks, has somehow persuaded both Chain Reaction/Hardwax’s Substance and Panorama Bar resident Cassy to remix his ‘Cosmos’ release on Apnea from last year.

First up is Substance, with a reinterpretation of ‘Reflection Nebula 056n’.

Based on a deep groove, the spacey, echoed sounds lend the remix a tripped out feeling, yet it’s also dancefloor-effective – with a niggling, hissing hi-hat adding momentum to the rhythm.

This is contemporary techno music at its most precise and refined: play this alongside most minimal releases and… well, there’s just no competition.

Cassy is next with a reshape of ‘IO’.

Like her own releases for Perlon, she selects a groovy tempo – not too fast but still DJ-friendly – then locks onto a housey loop and drops a hypnotic, almost alienated-sounding vocal sample, presumably of her own voice, also set to ‘repeat’.

Its repetitive nature and somewhat out-there atmosphere is both comforting and disconcerting, and on repeated listens, Cassy’s late-night composition begins to sound closer to a house version of Burial than anything else.

Like Substance, she inhabits her own, separate cosmos.

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