Sunday 10 May 2020

Misled Convoy x Uncle Fester on Acid 'Twilight 32' Review





Artist:

Misled Convoy x 
Uncle Fester on Acid


Title:

Twilight 32


Label:

Dubmission Records


Released:


15th May 2020







Inspired by the Mad Professor’s re-interpretation of Massive Attack’s ‘Protection’ and Adrian Sherwood’s version of Primal Scream’s ‘Echo Dek’ Pat Dokter under the pseudonym Uncle Fester on Acid began his Aural Assault Astronaut series with his de-construction and re-interpretation of Pitch Black’s ‘Filtered Senses’. He returns with the 2nd instalment of the series, this time tackling Misled Convoy’s ‘Sixteen Sunsets’. The most recent and laid back release from Mike Hodgson’s solo project to date. The initial theme of the album was a collection of field recordings, sourced from his travels infused with his signature sound. Which also featured more emotional and melodic touches from a young songwriter Ines Dunn.


Aside from the opening intro I quickly established not only has Pat de-constructed and re-constructed the tracks, he has also done the same with the titles and the order. He begins with the fourth track of the initial album ‘Another Time’, a 5 ½ minute long drone with some lighter moments at the tail end of the piece. This now becomes ‘Another Place, Another Time, Another Dimension’, condensed down in time and featuring slow motion compressed bass from the word go. 


While the mid-point piano break of the closing track ‘Subject to Chance’ becomes the intro of ‘Changing the Subchance’ where he enhances the atmospherics of the laid back original and slowly morphs the piece into slow paced bass notes. The title track itself is re-named ‘Dawnstar 17.3’ where here and there little flurries of the original number is recognisable between the passages of fx utilised in the process.


Overall unless you’ve recently listened to the album, then all the differences applied in this production are probably not going to be as instantly noticeable as dub versions of well known songs. However, that said it is just as listenable as the original and the production work is cleverly done.


Reviewed by Woodzee


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