{"id":9587,"date":"2013-08-14T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T18:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motionfm.com\/?p=9587"},"modified":"2013-09-02T20:55:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T00:55:58","slug":"tosca-tlapa-the-odeon-remixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/releases\/tosca-tlapa-the-odeon-remixes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tosca – Tlapa: The Odeon Remixes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cat:<\/strong>\t!K7 310CD
\nFormat:<\/strong>\tCD
\nReleased:<\/strong>\tAugust 19, 2013
\nGenre:<\/strong>\tDeep House<\/p>\n

BUY from JUNO Records<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s something of tradition for Tosca to get their albums remixed. Indeed, they once released a record comprised entirely of 13 mixes of one song, 2002\u2019s \u2018Different Tastes Of Honey\u2019, variations on \u2018Honey\u2019 from 1999\u2019s \u2018Suzuki\u2019. It\u2019s a way of keeping things fresh, injecting some uncertainty into proceedings, knocking things out of balance in order to check how they should be re-aligned.<\/p>\n

Richard Dorfmeister (he of Kruder & Dorfmeister fame) and Rupert Huber\u2019s most recent album \u2018Odeon\u2019, released last year, was darker and more ambient than its predecessors. It tapped in to the Mittleuropean melancholia than runs like a river through their hometown of Vienna. \u201cWe\u2019ve always had a darker, ambient side,\u201d says Dorfmeister. \u201cWe really wanted to emphasise that aspect of music with \u2018Odeon\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s their take on it. The idea now was to get other people\u2019s. \u201cI like the idea of seeing what comes out of people remixing our music,\u201d says Dorfmeister. \u201cI prefer it when the result is unusual. Dance mixes can be formulaic, y\u2019know, the most important element gets highlighted or there\u2019s a harder beat. It\u2019s difficult if people deliver something that\u2019s a bit formulaic because you have to have an awkward conversation, but 80 percent of what I got was good the first time. Going back to people and saying, It\u2019s not quite right is not my favourite situation. But I never give them directions of what I want, I just let them get on with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first person the pair approached was New York producer Brendan Moeller, who remixed \u2018Bonjour\u2019, turning it into a muted soundscape of drifting synths and keening strings that slowly warms as a bubbling riff fades in. \u201cHe does more techno, experimental stuff,\u201d says Dorfmeister. \u201cHe has a different approach to things, whether it\u2019s his music or in interviews. He did his remix while Hurricane Sandy was happening in New York. I guess it\u2019s his hurricane mix. He\u2019s got a talent for putting things in different perspectives, you know this spark that makes him unique.\u201d<\/p>\n

The choice of remixer for \u2018Stuttgart\u2019 was a case of obvious connections. The track already had a bit of a Latin feel thanks to guest Lucas Santtana from Brazil. Dorfmeister is longterm friends with Rainer Tr\u00fcby, king of the latin-leftfield sound. Plus Tr\u00fcby lives in Stuttgart. It would have been weird not to ask him. \u201cRainer always has an affinity for Latin stuff,\u201d says Dorfmeister. \u201cI thought it might fit and it fitted. Gilles Peterson as played it on his show already.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, Dorfmeister is an accomplished remixer himself, so it would have been remiss not get involved. \u201cI remixed \u2018In My Brain Prince Eugen\u2019 with the Madrid De Los Austrias guys, who are friends of mine,\u201d he explains. \u201cWe used a sample by a \u201970s rare groove band called FPI Project, a track called \u2018Talking About Love\u2019. It used to be a rare groove collectors item. I didn\u2019t know it before the guys used it on the mix, which was good because it was really fresh for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other reworks come from Silver City, two guys from from Buenos Aires who live in London. They apply an \u201980s twist to \u2018Johnny Waters\u2019. LTJ Experience, an alter ego on Italian producer Luca Trevisi from Bologna, turns in an atmospheric interpretation of \u2018Meixner\u2019. Perhaps the most unusual remix is AFG\u2019s version of \u2018Cavallo\u2019, which sees spoken word passages thrust to the fore. \u201cThat\u2019s definitely the most leftfield,\u201d agrees Dorfmeister.<\/p>\n

If \u2018Odeon\u2019 was the sound of a band at the top of their game, still relevant after two decades, then the remix album shows they\u2019re still on top of the music scene, pulling together well-judged names, old and new, to give their distinctive sound an equally distinctive twist. Talking about the Tosca mindset, Dorfmeister says: \u201cIt sounds like a cliche, but we\u2019ve never really thought about other people\u2019s music when we\u2019re writing our own. We try and create our own sound. We really have always been like that. And I think we\u2019ve developed a trademark sound because of it.\u201d It\u2019s equally true of the remixers they assembled here. The result is an album that\u2019s full of twists and surprises. Even if you know the original back to front, there\u2019s something for you here.<\/p>\n

Think of it as \u2018the Vienna sound\u2019 via London, Stuttgart, New York and Paris. An album for everyone everywhere.<\/p>\n

TRACKLISTING<\/strong>
\nCD ALBUM (K7310CD)<\/strong>
\nTosca – Bonjour (Beat Pharmacy Escape)
\nTosca – Meixner (LTJ Xperience Mix)
\nTosca – In My Brain Prinz Eugen (Richard Dorfmeister vs. Madrid De Los Austrias Ybbs Version)
\nTosca – Bonjour (Brendon Moeller Reshape)
\nTosca – Heatwave (Rodney Hunter Bounce-A-Thon Version)
\nTosca – Johnny Waters (Silver City Remix)
\nTosca – Ende Mai (Joyce Muniz Remix)
\nTosca – Stuttgart (Marlow and Tr\u00fcby Refix)
\nTosca – Cavallo (AGF Version)
\nTosca – Jayjay (Stefane Lefrancois Version)
\nTosca – Jayjay (Makossa Megablast 80ies Remake)<\/p>\n

12″ VINYL ALBUM (K7310LP)<\/strong>
\nTosca – Bonjour (Beat Pharmacy Escape)
\nTosca – Meixner (LTJ Xperience Mix)
\nTosca – In My Brain Prinz Eugen (Richard Dorfmeister vs. Madrid De Los Austrias Ybbs Version)
\nTosca – Bonjour (Brendon Moeller Reshape)
\nTosca – Heatwave (Rodney Hunter Bounce-A-Thon Version)
\nTosca – Johnny Waters (Silver City Remix)
\nTosca – Ende Mai (Joyce Muniz Remix)
\nTosca – Stuttgart (Marlow and Tr\u00fcby Refix)
\nTosca – Cavallo (AGF Version)
\nTosca – Jayjay (Stefane Lefrancois Version)
\nTosca – Jayjay (Makossa Megablast 80ies Remake)<\/p>\n