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Pitch Black: Halfway Between Ape & Angel

Like a software update, this remix release from Remote Recordings extends the reach of Pitch Black's already expansive 'Ape to Angel' album. Various tracks have been re-imagined by a ragtag army of remixers including Bluetech, Friends Electric, peak_shift and Agent Alvin. Freefall receives four such treatments (maybe because Sandy Mill's vocal provides an obvious hook), and Elements Turn appears twice. The project is a juxtaposition of high tech collaboration with primordial swampy sounds that swim around the subconscious. As an unabashed fan of the original recording, Halfway's elaborate bytes offer some fresh territory, most notably Switch + pZ's drum'n'bass reading of Elements Turn and the bubbly robo-synth of Issac Tucker & Ed Page's Freefall remix. OG takes The Random Smiler in a hip-hop direction, adding a new vocal and Max and Bluey insert birdcalls and Ron Valente's guitar into Big Trouble Upstairs. Less essential but an interesting addition to Pitch Black's developing catalogue.

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