Psychic Ills / Juan Atkins / Faust
Frkwys Vol. 4
Joining the microdots between Psych, Techno and Krautrock, Brookyln's Psychic Ills and the Frkwys label enlist Juan Atkins, Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers), and Hans-Joachim Irmler (Faust) on a very special remix trip. In a genius A&R move, Juan Atkins is set to work on 'Mantis', augmenting the somnambulant repetitions of the original with a firm Detroit backbone while maintaining its psychedelic potential with subtly off-key tuning and a warped vortex of a breakdown. Seriously, after ten minutes of this you'll be doing it all over again. Gibby Haynes is offered 'I Take You As My Wife Again' on the flip, and turns it into an organically unfolding slab of analog avant-techno, gradually raising its systolic rate until it throbs like the heart of a mushroom foraging boar in the midst of a mindblowing trip, grunts distorted into the aether. Of all three remixers, we'd probably reckon Hans-Joachim Irmler has done the most drugs, and his version of 'Wichcraft Breaker' sounds like it, recasting the track as a vast cosmic vision of squally distortion powered by motorik bass and offworld tribal drumming. This 12" is really something to marvel at.
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Joining the microdots between Psych, Techno and Krautrock, Brookyln's Psychic Ills and the Frkwys label enlist Juan Atkins, Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers), and Hans-Joachim Irmler (Faust) on a very special remix trip. In a genius A&R move, Juan Atkins is set to work on 'Mantis', augmenting the somnambulant repetitions of the original with a firm Detroit backbone while maintaining its psychedelic potential with subtly off-key tuning and a warped vortex of a breakdown. Seriously, after ten minutes of this you'll be doing it all over again. Gibby Haynes is offered 'I Take You As My Wife Again' on the flip, and turns it into an organically unfolding slab of analog avant-techno, gradually raising its systolic rate until it throbs like the heart of a mushroom foraging boar in the midst of a mindblowing trip, grunts distorted into the aether. Of all three remixers, we'd probably reckon Hans-Joachim Irmler has done the most drugs, and his version of 'Wichcraft Breaker' sounds like it, recasting the track as a vast cosmic vision of squally distortion powered by motorik bass and offworld tribal drumming. This 12" is really something to marvel at.
Joining the microdots between Psych, Techno and Krautrock, Brookyln's Psychic Ills and the Frkwys label enlist Juan Atkins, Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers), and Hans-Joachim Irmler (Faust) on a very special remix trip. In a genius A&R move, Juan Atkins is set to work on 'Mantis', augmenting the somnambulant repetitions of the original with a firm Detroit backbone while maintaining its psychedelic potential with subtly off-key tuning and a warped vortex of a breakdown. Seriously, after ten minutes of this you'll be doing it all over again. Gibby Haynes is offered 'I Take You As My Wife Again' on the flip, and turns it into an organically unfolding slab of analog avant-techno, gradually raising its systolic rate until it throbs like the heart of a mushroom foraging boar in the midst of a mindblowing trip, grunts distorted into the aether. Of all three remixers, we'd probably reckon Hans-Joachim Irmler has done the most drugs, and his version of 'Wichcraft Breaker' sounds like it, recasting the track as a vast cosmic vision of squally distortion powered by motorik bass and offworld tribal drumming. This 12" is really something to marvel at.