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written by Ged M
Apr 2, 2008.
Remixer Pocketknife (a.k.a. Skooby Laposky) learned to DJ from Detroit house producer Theo Parrish. Together with DJ Cousin Cole (born Cole Gerard) they’ve released - sorry, dropped - various house remixes before compiling this set of folk-ish tales set to a firm beat. These new reworkings of songs by Iron & Wine, Devendra Banhart, Nico and Neil Young, among others, are upbeat, striking a neat balance between ethereality and danceability.
Not everything works well but ‘Scenic World’ by Beirut seems to be transplanted to the Highlands in the ‘Pocketknife’s Breaktaken Remix’ while Joanna Newsom seems made for the inventive producer or remixer with her playful ‘The Book of Right On’. Most impressive is the track that closes the album, Cousin Cole’s remix of Springsteen’s ‘I’m On Fire’ with a “slo-mo disco” beat, reviving the mournful tones of the original but slipping a sly dance beat beneath. We don’t cover that much dance music here but these house/folk hybrids give you something to listen to as well as something to move your arthritic hips to.
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