Early Years
RemIIxes
Limited to 300 Copies. London and Cheshire based four-piece The Early Years release RemIIxes, a brand new EP of reworkings from last year’s acclaimed album II next month. The EP features two reworkings of Hall Of Mirrors by Andrew Weatherall, which the man himself describes as “like taking Steve Reich down the disco with a bit of acid thrown in”. Joining him on remix duties are Andy Bell from the reformed and rejuvenated shoegaze legends Ride, who welds the bassline from Wayne Smith’s Under Mi Sleng Teng on to For The Fallen and turns it into a pulsating electronic groove. Finally, The Early Years’ Sonic Cathedral labelmate XAM (aka Matthew Benn from Hookworms) stretches out Fluxus into 13 exhilarating minutes of Kraftwerk meets New Order (circa Power, Corruption and Lies) meets Simple Minds’ Theme For Great Cities.