Entropic’s The Remix Project brings together some curious sound explorers from the talented seething underbelly of Australia’s electronic music community. Deepchild starts the festivities with Maurice Goes AWOL (Maurices Chair Remix) and Meem continues the quality but for me the surprise of the project comes at track three when Christopher Hancock aka Monkfly raises the tempo with a skippety D&B; flavoured mix of Upholstery. Chris handed me a few burns a couple of years ago and I’ve always given them the occasional spin. Now the spaced-out journeys through soundscapes have gelled to result in a more approachable and floor-filling versions, still retaining his knack for finding choice sounds and creating texture. Mutante Frequante chimes in with a delightfully house flavoured but fu**ed up mix of House Policy that will surely make a few blondes explode on the dancefloor. I can see them now: trying to move their hips to the experimental edges and turning into screaming balls of fire. Way too confusing for blondes: that’s an official warning for Kylie fans. B.A.B.S sets the fu**ed-up-ometer to full-on before Raven uses similar sounds to a snappy rhythm that would make me dance at any time of night (or morning). Dropping the tempo to an arm-swinging pace, Why’s version of Fork is minimal but dramatic with brooding keyboard sounds; all flesh, no skin. Definitely a fave. Mt Druitt Millionaire’s Club (one of the best names I’ve heard in a while) bring the focus back to very technical house with funk bass and horns that could get hands floating toward disco balls but Magmafinder end the proceedings with a darker flavoured 4/4 track that doesn’t even bother with solid or snappy drum sounds: it’s all flat, vibrating distortion with sharp samples and a guitar that sounds like it’s howling at the moon. All in all, Entropic: The Remix Project is fun journey through many genres and moods, all bound by the impressive and inspiring originals of Entropic

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