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CORTIZONA 035LP
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A year after PINGPONG, the 2LP compilation with unearthed music from 1980-2000 by Walter Verdin, Cortizona presents Minimalize Your Reworks, a collection of 12 reworks and interpretations of the 1981 composition "Minimalize" Verdin originally created for a video art installation. 12 totally different versions by 12 musicians, producers, DJ's and artists blowing the dust of this visionary track Verdin made at night in the studios of the audiovisual services of the university, somewhere in the Belgian city of Leuven. Minimalize Your Reworks features contributions from a wide range of musicians: Peaking Lights delivers a motorik manifesto for lost '80s kids with nostalgia for coin up games at a desolated Luna Park. Stripped down demented disco to keep the heartbeat in a trance. Jlin injects the old school vibe with a shot of firing future footwork reshaping it in a dazzling abstract bass buzzer. Céline Gillain sculpts Verdin's mantra into a brand-new story dribbling between deadpan bubblegum dance hall and tongue in cheek wordy rappinghood. A slow burning technicolor dream fading into a throbbing new ecstatic reality is maybe the best way to describe Transistorcake's translation of the original composition. Electronic body music of a Blade Runner generation chasing a Stranger Things reality in an upside -down world: Sagat's version explores new horizons for sure. Beton Brut goes for the short sharp shock and flips Walter's analogue tape advice into an insane grimey gabbercore classic for the year 2525. That's around the same time era where you can find the spirit of Legowelt's goofy robotic interpretation of "Minimalize": Star Trekking across the universe, boldly going forward with the vocoder and the 808 until everyone's dancing or at least moving their feet. Together with his vintage echodeck, Ossia exploring and pushing dub and Mego boundaries here. DJ Marcelle takes bass to another level in her "Space Invaders Remix," deconstructing and splicing sound into a new form of what could be an anchor point for inzane Johnnies testing and fine-tuning their boombox car sound system. Patrick Stevens slams your brain with an industrial stomper - banging like a 1984 anthem The Hafler Trio knocks on the doors of perception and enters your sonicsoul with hidden subliminal messages like only Andrew McKenzie can. Annelies Monseré transcends cosmic minimal frequencies from another dimension into an unknown maximalized spectrum. Just with her voice and harmonium she delivers acoustic shoegaze and a hauntingly hypnotizing mantra of 8 minutes and 10 seconds.
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