Artist: Misled Convoy
Title:
Translations
Label:
Dubmission Records
Released:
1st April
This
release is a selection of re-mixes from Pitch Black's Mike Hodgson
under his Misled Convoy moniker, which covers a broad pallet of
styles from long established and up-and-coming artists across the
globe.
The
album commences with the scanner mix of 'Nuerotrash' from London
disco-punks Feral Five which is a dubbed out electro-rock that seems
to retain all the original punk vocal elements to good effect.. While
the earth will have two suns re-mix of Holotronica's (Stuart Warren
Hill of Hexstatic) 'Super Nova' takes you on a journey into
space tinkering with scientific monologue and bubbly electro-dub. This
is followed by the borrowed time mix of 'Do You Know Where Your
Going?' by Japan's Supercozi (Zen Lemonade) a chilled out dub which
utilises a lyrical reggae vocal that works better when dubbed out for
me.
Moving
across to Mike's homeland with the next track re-working 'Please Wake
Up' by the Adults a Kiwi rock supergroup formed by Shihad frontman
Jon Toogood of which I am blissfully unaware. I'd never have had this
down as a rock original to me it comes across something akin to the
afx re-mixes of Seefeel in the early 90's which is no bad thing. Some
of the previous styles meet somewhere in the middle with a dubbed out
re-mix of 'Sufi' by the U.K.'s Flies + Flies which seems to stitch
together elements of gothic, arabic, ambient, shoegaze and industrial
dub fairly seamlessly.
The
re-mix of 'Lost in the Valley of Scintalla Strings' by Sheffield's
ambient audio-visual duo Animat, is a deep and atmospheric piece
which combines dub techno with a cinematic and classical feel. In
contrast the pastscape re-mix of Banco De Gaia's 'Wimble Toot' takes
you on an elongated intro of ambient voices and sound, before the
bass line is employed and the horns take the piece into the realms of
dub reggae. Then
moving back across to the other side of the globe Mike then gives one
of his own Misled Convoy tracks 'Leap Beneath' a re-rub in the far
more expected reggae style to close.
To
summarise I'm really impressed with this collection it's a real mixed
bag of genres and styles at times ambient and atmospheric others
industrial and rock-edged. However, the common link thread is as ever
the dub.
Review
by Woodzee
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