American synth-pop producer André Obin has been hard at work readying his sophomore LP for a 2014 release, so it’d be easy to identify The Arsonist Remixes EP, which features some contemporaries deconstructing his first album, as something of a stop-gap release. But that would be to miss the soulful, silky wonder of some of these tracks, in particular Artisan Loyalist’s go-80s-or-go-home spin on “Gazelle.” It’s at once a suitable recovery from your Halloween debauch and your first brave step into the rest of the weekend’s wilderness.

Where the original track was a slice of aggressive new-wave disco, with processed, robotically inclined vocals and laser synth stabs at the foreground of the mix, Artisan Loyalist aims for wee-hours balladry, citing Berlin’s dreamily widescreen “Take My Breath Away” as inspiration. “I started the remix for Gazelle with a pulsing bass synth hoping to have some stripped down production to accompany the vocal line,” he said, but just looping one of the string arrangements wasn’t working. “So, after some deliberating, I tried playing some big brassy chords on my Prophet 08 synthesizer and the remix just seemed to come to life.”  

http://www.blackbookmag.com/music/blackbook-premiere-artisan-loyalist-s-yearning-remix-of-andr%C3%A9-obin-s-gazelle-1.66462

André Obin - Gazelle (Artisan Loyalist Remix)

Released July 30, 2013 
Recorded and mixed by Rob Batke at Riverdale Recorders 
Mastered by Scott Franchuk at Riverdale Recorders 
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Artwork and photography by Seth Hardie 
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All songs © 2013 Rob Batke 
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