Unlike is a collection of remixes of material by Ui, a band from NYC They work mostly without vocals, emphasizing bass guitars and the trap set Featuring remixes by Sasha Frere-Jones (Ui), John McEntire (Tortoise Sea And Cake Gastrl del Sol), David Linton, Ian Burton (Change of Heart), David Dacks and Nick Holmes, the material on Unlike is drawn from the first Ui record and their 1996 release.
There are a handful of rock bands that have gotten the smart idea of using the ideas of dub—turning music inside-out in the mix to discover its hidden rhythms—without the genre constraints of the reggae forms in which those ideas were developed. To that short but trailblazing list (Tackhead, Tortoise, Dub Narcotic Sound System and probably not more than a half-dozen others), add the New York trio Ui. The band’s first record, the mostly instrumental, vinyl-only 2-Sided EP, tweaked rock’s sonic conventions by mostly eschewing guitars in favor of a bass-bass-drum gut-punch, but Unlike takes two of those songs (and two new ones) into outer space. You have to do A/B comparisons of the remixes with the originals to determine that, in fact, they’re based on the same recordings. One version of “Ring” takes its looping rhythm and builds on it with ticking overtones hidden somewhere in the band’s recording; presence; a third changes the tempo and preserves only timbres of sounds that were pretty deep in the mix to begin with. As a bonus, Unlike is great for testing the bass response of your speakers: here’s hoping that the blown-out sound of the album’s ultra-low intro is supposed to sound like that.
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01 — Horn Crown Label [9:14]
Remix — David Linton, Sasha Frere-Jones
02 — Ring (Descriptive Mix 1) [7:30]
Engineer — Daryl Smith, Nick Holmes
Remix — David Dacks, Nick Holmes
03 — Sexy Photograph [4:49]
Remix — John McEntire
04 — Ring (Hissy Boy on the Hand Crank in the Kingdom of Reverb Mix) [6:16]
Remix — Ian Blurton
05 — The Piano [14:37]
Remix — David Linton
06 — Ring (Descriptive Mix 2) [7:29]
Engineer — Daryl Smith, Nick Holmes
Remix — David Dacks, Nick Holmes
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