Happy New Year, everyone! In the interests of avoiding posting any on-the-nose songs by U2 or ABBA, here's a relatively forgotten remix of Deadly Avenger from twenty years ago instead. The "v2" remix is a good one to loop if you're planning a walk/fresh air to clear that fuzzy head. Both v1 & v2 appeared on the 2002 single We Took Pelham, albeit respectively exclusive to the 12" and CD single formats.
The Future Sound Of London only released one other 'Cosmic Jukebox' remix - Paths by Robert Miles, which I featured previously here. I've only discovered from researching this post that there was a planned then scrapped 'Cosmic Jukebox' project, which was subsequently replaced by the long-running A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble series. The 'Cosmic Jukebox' also pointed the way to the re-emergence of Amorphous Androgynous, with their incredible album The Isness that same year.
Amorphous Androgynous returned last year with We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal, an epic 6-part single/mini-album and remix companion, featuring Peter Hammill on lead vocals and Paul Weller tucked away in the mix, tinkling the ivories. A new album, Listening To The Head Chakra, has been promised for a few years now but may finally see the light of day in 2022.
I meant to check out the Amorphous thing last year and never got round to it.
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ReplyDeleteThere are only a couple of tracks from the mini-album available for preview on their Bandcamp page, but the main/vocal track opens my Now These Winter Skies Turn Blue And Bright selection (23rd Dec). To be honest, I haven't listened to the Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble remix companion so much so I will get back to it.
DeleteThanks for the steady stream of great posts over the course of 2021 and all the best for the year ahead.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I'm glad you've enjoyed the blog so far, I'll aim to keep up the momentum this year. I hope 2022 is a good one for you, too.
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