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Presenting the first digital single, ‘Everything (Gone Crooked) / Go Slow Heart (Beat Crooked)’, from the forthcoming, future-facing Transmission Towers remix album Crooked Transmissions on Luke Una’s E Soul Cultura label. Remoulding, reenergising and completely reworking tracks from the Transmission Towers’ critically acclaimed debut LP Transmission One, Crooked Man sets forth a whole new album’s worth of transcendental, tripped-out productions.

A key figure in electronic dance music’s history, Sheffield-born Crooked Man aka Richard Barratt released one of bleep techno’s defining records back in ‘89. Landing on Warp, it came under the alias Sweet Exorcist with the late great Richard H. Kirk. Since then, Barratt has put out a slew of exceptional productions under a variety of different monikers from Crooked Man and Parrot, to Earth Angel and Athletes of God. He has released on DFA, delivered countless remixes for Róisín Murphy and reimagined the likes of JIM and Joe Goddard. Every inch of that experience and expertise has been deployed on this Transmission Towers remix release.

‘Everything (Gone Crooked)’ takes the original and contorts it from a post-punk guitar trip into a cybertronic, new beat heater. A percussive state of hypnosis leads the charge, building the tension for a rumbling kickdrum and buzzing synthline to twist their talons into your mind. Eleanor Mante’s vocals take on a new vivacity, feeling like your head has been sucked into a psychedelic swirl away from reality. Afrofuturist, arresting and perfectly equipped to electrify any waning dancefloor into action.

Next, Crooked Man takes on the emotionally charged ‘Go Slow Heart’. Morphing it from a celestial beacon of light into a Balearic, slo-mo, sci-fi tribal march. Tweaking out the synth melodies so they reverberate from ear to ear, Crooked Man’s kick thumps like a heartbeat, as the pads fall backwards into a sonic blackhole. Atop a thundering bassline and Theremin-esque soundwaves, Eleanor’s vocal refrain is looped, echoed and imprinted into your consciousness – a cautionary mantra of reason, just as emotion is about to override logic.

Transmission Towers - Go Slow Heart (Beat Crooked)

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Hi friends, I present to you a compilation of remixes that I made between 2005 and 2010 of various artists that have either been rejected, unreleased or just straight up unfinished.  Some were made for fun while others were for hire.  Needless to say a lot of the mixdowns are, well, questionable. Either way, nice effort right?
With Love from Berlin,

Machinedrum

Download full zip here : http://machinedrum.net/Nice%20Effort%20-%20Remixes%20%282005-2010%29.zip

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