The year ends with exactly the kind of release I’d want it to end with. My remix of Darker Nights by ReKaB is out now on the Diverse Pathways compilation through Fourier Transform and it’s a track I’m really proud of.
I wrote about ReKaB last month and about the particular quality of their production that I find inspiring. The Darker Nights remix gave me the chance to respond to that quality directly and to put my own reading of the material into the world. What I found in the original track was a specific emotional register, something between tension and resolution that never quite arrives at either, and my remix tries to sit in that space more explicitly.
The groove is slower and deeper than most of my recent work. The acid elements are present but restrained, appearing at moments rather than running throughout. The whole thing has a nocturnal quality that felt right for the title and for the time of year this is being released.
Diverse Pathways is a strong compilation and I’m glad to be part of it. Fourier Transform continue to put together releases with genuine coherence and I find the label a creatively stimulating context to work in.
It’s been a good year. The Void Disaster remix in June started the Fourier Transform relationship properly and this one deepens it. 2024 is already taking shape and I can feel it building towards something significant. More on that in January.
