Congregation, please be seated and open your prayer-books. Here are some extra bass-heavy, playful, and apocalyptic takes on tracks from Into the Light (2024).
This Word, Life (remix) casts us into a cauldron of breakbeat and bass pressure and existential worry under starry skies. We emerge, gasping, for Into the Light (remix), whose austere electronica melds into an indulgently exploratory and spacious jam at Compass Point studios circa 1981. A nearly 7-minute track? We need air and stumble to the beach, but it doesn't help: as track 3 opens, Aldous Huxley wants to take us into the Other World, backed by uncertain machinery. Fleeing from a melting Huxley, we step into Let Us Make (remix), wonky modular techno accompanying distant initiation rites in the moonlight. We slip away once more to find a detuned radio on the shore, playing another take on Into the Light. We slow right down to tune in to its low frequencies, transmitted through heavy static from a far away place. The camera pans away, leaving us there, hugging the small radio. Cut to: laughter over breakfast (we are picking uncertainly at some fresh fruit); gentle concern from Sly and Robbie. At the next table, an older man looks over his newspaper - Aldous?
ST002 Into the Light Remixes is the second release on Spiritual Transmissions, spiritualtransmissions.org