Artist: Aligning Minds
Album: My Heart Is ReMixed
Label: Gravitas Recordings/Critical Beats
Release Date: 5th November 2013
I’ll have to admit I’ve not
heard the original album “My Heart Is Love” by Aligning Minds. However, having
been impressed by their re-mix on the Desert Dwellers album “Re-Calibrated 2”
and having heard the promotional Androcell Re-Mix of “In The Wake Of Forever”
featured on this album my mind was aligned with the sound and I was more than
happy to give an ear to this selection of re-mixes.
The album is part of the Critical
Beats series which we have previously mentioned before and money will be
donated to RAN (The Rainforest Action Network)
For further info
on Evan Marc’s Critical Beats project aimed at helping the indigenous people of
the rainforests and RAN see the links below.
The opening track is Anvil
Hands take on the title track which layers a chilled atmosphere and soothing soulful
vocals over slo-mo deep bass stabs. I’ve never heard of Anvil Hands or the
original track so I’m in the dark as to how similar or different the track is
to the original. It’s not the greatest or catchiest track you will hear, but I
think it achieves a laid back atmosphere so a good start all in all.
The album continues fusing
elements of ambience, dub-step & glitchly electronica of which there’s
nothing wrong but it doesn’t really grab me until it chills right down with the
Androcell re-edit I mentioned before (a welcome respite to the previous track
which got a little hectic) this track really is quite special featuring
beautifully alluring vocals, perfectly laid over soothing music and when the
psy-dub interjects it compliments perfectly. All in all a sterling job by Tyler
Overall, the album is well
produced drawing on a range of styles and sub-genres, some which I find appealing
and others not so much. But it does contain a few gems alongside the Androcell
re-mix. I thoroughly enjoyed Krusseldorf’s glitchy ride through ambience with
their take of “Oak Kalendar” and Shortmanb’s reggae vocals which sound almost
vocoder’ish in places offers a different outlet to the rest of the album.
Reviewed by Woodzee
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