Artist: Dialect Trio and Various Remix Artist
Album: Elements of Style Remix
Label: The Global Bass Experience/BOR
Genre: Global Bass
Release Date: 8-15-2013
Tracklisting:

1. B’alam (NiceJ Zouk&Juke Mix)
2. Chicha De La Piedmont (Damo Naimad Remix)
3. Desert Blues (Desert Reds Mix by El Guero Unico)
4.Funky Clarkston (Piper Street Sound Remix)
5.Cumbia Clarkston (Ale. Cassis Remix)
6. Sephardim (Rafael Aragon Remix)
7. John Brown’s Dreadful Right Hand (Dany F Remix)



Dialect Trio's second album Elements of Style (self released April 2013) saw the band serve up a heady brew of music- Its massive flavor defied tidy genre boundaries. Cohesively and with bluesy funkiness the album included elements of north, central and south American folk musics blended with elements of Afro-Latin rhythms and African, Middle Eastern and Balkan pop and folk. But you know it isn't really about isolating and identifying the specific genres that went into the work- the music takes its own path that more often than not doesn't really require a name. Elements of Style’s conglomeration of influences was a perfect petri dish for some great producers’ remixes to flourish in. 
The remixed tracks are arranged in the same order as the original album so this album can be listened to as a B side to the whole A side which was Elements of Style. If you haven’t yet go listen to and download the original at dialecttrio.com. This remix album put together by Matt Mansfield of Dialect Trio who also produces Dialect Trio’s recordings as Piper Street Sound and John Newell (El Guero Unico) of The Global Bass Experience. The choice of remix artist was very specific for each song, each song was handed out like an assignment, to some of Piper Street Sound’s favorite musical minds and the results are diverse, listenable and fantastic. Fans of breathing, good food and sex will be sure to love it.

Elements of Style Remix Track Descriptions
Osaka DJ and producer JNice starts things off with his ZUKE & JUKE remix of B’alam. This twitchy, angular treatment of the steady, dub-influenced original track takes its heavy psychedelic sound and jacks up the intensity into the frenetic by adding a host of synths, sound f/x, and an upbeat energetic rhythm arrangement. 
Argentine Cumbia-crossover master Damo Naimad explores Chicha De La Piedmont’s airy ambience by rearranging rhythms and f/x, and adding a new synth melody line. The result is a fresh, modern, unhurried sound that stays true to the original’s use of expert percussion and sense of space.
Global Bass Experience jefe and driving force El Guero Unico delivers an intriguing reconstruction of the group’s Saharan-influenced Desert Blues, a pulsing, Acid-Jazz trip out, with EGU providing multiple new instrumental tracks and takes on the original. A trance-like rhythm and several swirling, deconstructed key arrangements center around Russ Bledsoe’s original guitar takes, making ‘Desert Red’ a haunting exploration. 
Piper Street Sound wields his IDM hammer and reshapes Funky Clarkston, the album’s most upbeat AfroBluesFunk offering, into a multi-headed digital dinosaur of destruction. Using his library of the group’s original takes and his staggering production know-how, the producer extraordinaire fashions a marching dystopian glitch-fest complete with new themes and melodies, while using deconstructed takes from other Dialect Trio works, all to staggering effect. 
Cumbia Digital producer Ale Cassis delivers a stripped-down, spaced-out version of Cumbia Clarkston. The interplay between a trap-like rhythm track and expert re-arrangement of the tune’s original latin percussion, combined with interesting ambient vocal samples and tasteful preservation of original melodic content make for a powerful, minimalist thought piece.
Rafael Aragon expands upon Sephardim’s melodic mode with new instrumentation and a reimagined structure. Heady psychedelic keys and swirling guitars give way to a pounding upbeat rhythm that brings the desert to the club, and vice versa. 
Elements Of Style’s massive set piece John Brown’s Dreadful Right Hand, in the hands of Columbian Tropical Bass wunderkind Dany F, emerges as a revolving strobe of steady cumbia rhythms over original elements, and frenetic ADD-addled club hardcore. By turns plodding and methodical one moment, then pushed up and over the edge with an ultra-fast champeta(?) beat the next. 


Artist info and links:

1. J Music NIce from Osaka, Japan https://www.facebook.com/nicejeee/photos
2. Damo Naimad from Buenos Aires, Argentina https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=140445456110235&set=t.100003473468307&type=3&theater 
3. El Guero Unico aka John Newell from Phoenix, Arizona https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=195021120656417&set=t.502648732&type=3&theater 
4. Piper Street Sound that is me from Atlanta  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=258669954144610&set=o.148843948504401&type=3&theater 
5. Ale. Cassis from La Paz, Bolivia https://www.facebook.com/ale.cassis/photos 
6. Rafael Aragon from Paris, France https://www.facebook.com/rafael.aragon1/photos 
7. Dany F from Medellin, Columbia https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151145831420994&set=t.1211286201&type=3&theater 


Cover Art by the fabulous Nat Emmett 










B’alam (NICE☆J Zouk&Juke Mix)

Matt Mansfield is a musician, producer, and sound engineer with a focus on Dub Reggae. He maintains a studio in Clarkston, Georgia, on the outskirts of Atlanta, where he uses the techniques of Dub and electronic production to explore global soundscapes. He instigates musical interactions under the name Piper Street Sound. With over twenty years of recording, performing, and touring as bassist and live dub engineer, as well as years working in record label management with the pioneering ZZK Records, Mansfield has dug deeply through the emerging sounds of our planet. In this process of delving he has evolved into a creature of instinctive musical creation.

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