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2014 TOP 10s & 20s
Dday One

Albums
2562
Poppy Ackroyd
Blueneck
Nicholas Chase
Vicky Chow
Carlos Cipa
Dale Cooper + Witxes
Dday One
Federico Durand
English + Vitiello
Everyday Dust
Eyck and Tarnow
Faded Ranger
Grouper
Robert Hood
Human Greed
The Invaderz
Thomas Köner
Kontext
Akira Kosemura
Heiko Laux
Norberto Lobo
Andrew McIntosh
Monolog
Aina Myrstener Cello
Northumbria
Michael Nyman
One World Symphony
Postma & Osby
David Pritchard
[.que]
See Through Trio
Dirk Serries
Jakob Skøtt
Miguel Zenón

Reissue
Hassell and Eno

Compilations
Air Texture Volume IV
Emerging Organisms 5
Hyperdub 10.4

EPs / Singles
David Ahlen
Blu Mar Ten
Boston feat. Solis
DIFFER-Ent (By DJ Bone)
Gone Beyond
Matthias Grübel
Lami / Ratti
Lubomyr Melnyk
Ryo Murakami
Om Unit
Pursuit Grooves

Blu Mar Ten: Famous Lost Words Remixes: Part 3
Blu Mar Ten Music

Issued approximately one month apart, the three remix EPs based on material from Blu Mar Ten's 2013 Famous Lost Words album culminate with this fine third installment featuring makeovers by Ulterior Motive, Kimyan Law, and Nuage.

Ulterior Motive mates James Davidson and Greg Hepworth, whose own The Fourth Wall full-length has just appeared on Metalheadz, are first up with a captivating take on “In Your Eyes,” which, in its original form, was rendered memorable by, among other things, a superb vocal by Agne Genyte. The duo's remix recasts the cut as a lethal half-stepper whose ominous disposition is reinforced by a pitched-down treatment of the vocal that lends it a surprisingly androgynous character.

A new and exclusive artist to Blu Mar Ten Music, Kimyan Law dims the lights on “Half the Sky” for an elegant treatment that oozes a dramatic, late-night feel, especially when Law threads acoustic sounds such as piano and kalimba into its arrangement.

Closing out the EP, Nuage (St. Petersburg-based Dmitry Kuzmin) reimagines the title track of Blu Mar Ten's album as an alluring, ballad-styled dreamscape in a deeply evocative style much like the kind showcased throughout his own new album Prints of You. It's a fitting end, not just to this release but to the remix series as a whole, whose nine cuts would easily hold up if gathered into an album-styled presentation.

December 2014