It is rarely the case that moments of disappointment take me with such a force as the realisation that Cuushe’s new three CD remix project Girl You Know That I Am Here But The Dream had sold out before the release date. Such is the fragile nature of the collector’s psyche, and the esteem that Cuushe is held within. The project is basically three new tracks by the artist and a compilation of remixes by artists ranging from Blackbird Blackbird, Geskia!, Teendaze, Botany, Motion sickness of Time Travel and Federico Durand.
Disc 1 contains Geskia’s remix of ‘Do You Know The Way To Sleep‘ which stands out as a driven bass and glitch track with looped chorus impressing itself on the ear. Botany’s version of ‘Summer Night Sketch‘ takes the shaker and chime on the backporch breezy stance then adds in a melodic chime groove to press up the kooky rhythm approach. Julia Holter’s take on ‘Swimming In The Room’ takes elements of the vocals and adds touches – daubs – of found sound, sonic gestures, and experiments all slightly askew from each other. It emphasises the silence between gestures as well as the quality of the recording.
Disc 2 has the original track ‘I Dreamt About Silence‘ a cloud-hopping dream pop electronica number with moments of glitched hip-hop interludes between the vocal cloudland. The rest of this disc contains indie pop electronica remixes by Kinaxre, Blackbird Blackbird and Teendaze, which as a whole sound like souped up 4AD on electronica.
Disc 3 opens with ‘9125 Days of Sleep Waves’, wonky exotica-style electronica with the dream pop vocals inducing the listener to slumber. The there are the best two tracks of the project in Motion sickness of Time Travel’s remix of ‘Dust of Dreams’ and Federico Durand’s treatment of ‘9125 Days of Sleep Waves’. The first being a subtle long track that makes the most of field recording and long extended drones and recurring environmental samples moving into dreamlike layered treatments of vocals. The second is a wavering drone scape of treated samples from ‘9125 Days of Sleep Waves’ shimmering their way to an ambivilant soundscape that achieves heights of sonic layered drone goodness.
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