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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