Album · 2009
Intimacy Remixed
by Bloc Party
Intimacy Remixed is an album by Bloc Party, released in 2009 on Wichita Recordings, with 13 tracks.
- 13
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- 65 min
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Album · 2009
by Bloc Party
Intimacy Remixed is an album by Bloc Party, released in 2009 on Wichita Recordings, with 13 tracks.
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13 tracks · 65 min
Intimacy Remixed, a collection of songs which initially appeared on Bloc Party's patchy third album, is unprecedented in its field. Tough as it may be for the purists to comprehend, this record is better than the original. Villians remix of Ares is a great start to proceedings. The sub-Chemical Bothers clatter of the initial recording being overhauled like an even more robust Justice. Meanwhile, go-to ghetto bass remixer, Herve, contributes a dark and twitchy 4/4 battering of big single Mercury and We Have Band rip the punky guitars from Halo and prefer to up the pulsing bass and add computer game synth noises. Although some artists themselves can be precious when their work is tampered with, most progressive musicians realise reworking material can be a useful and occasionally necessary way of making songs better or just relevant to a new audience. This is surely why Bloc Party have allowed the likes of drum 'n' bass hero John B and venerated US house veteran Armand Van Helden free rein here. John B cuts his trance 'n' bass moves sweetly over Trojan Horse, which merely bores in its original incarnation, but here soars before, during and after a lengthy euphoric breakdown. Armand, …