{"id":40982,"date":"2016-01-27T18:53:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T00:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=40982"},"modified":"2016-02-01T17:36:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T23:36:01","slug":"tycho-awake-remixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/01\/27\/tycho-awake-remixes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tycho: Awake Remixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tycho-Remixes-e1453942213724.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40983\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40983 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tycho-Remixes-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tycho Remixes\" width=\"265\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a>Tycho, under the direction of its San Francisco creator, Scott Hansen, as well as Zac Brown and Rory O\u2019Connor, rests somewhere under the large umbrella of electronic or psychedelic music by today\u2019s standards but is in many facets a more unseen commodity blending ambient post-rock and instrumentation with rich production lending itself to a listen live or elsewhere. Here, with <em>Awake Remixes<\/em>, Tycho\u2019s fifth full-length album is undertaken by the likes of Com Truise, RJD2, Bibio and others.<\/p>\n<p>A remix release is not a new venture for Tycho as they were a part of the 2013 split EP <em>Fragments \/ Ascension <\/em>with Washington D.C.\u2019s Thievery Corporation where the two traded turns remixing each other\u2019s tracks. <em>Awake Remixes <\/em>hits hard from the beginning with a Com Truise mix from New York producer Seth Haley, a label mate of Tycho. \u201cL\u201d is then robustly revitalized by Sacramento electronic trio Dusty Brown, a group whom Tycho\u2019s Zac Brown is also involved in.<\/p>\n<p>Tycho\u2019s \u201cApogee\u201d as per RJD2 is a special piece of this collage with syncopated hip-hop and electronic elements harkening to the true sound of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostly.com\/\">Ghostly International<\/a>, a label possessing an undoubted nimiety of tireless talent. The Bibio remix of \u201cSpectre,\u201d a seeming interaction between Tycho and something off of the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante 2010 collaboration, owns a warm, waxy quality while sensually illustrating an outdoor setting. \u00a0Next is \u201cPlains,\u201d remixed by Baio, which offers a satisfying ODESZA-esque instrumental while the track\u2019s vocals mimic a more produced Win Butler.<\/p>\n<p>Most of <em>Awake\u2019<\/em>s tracks transformed with the aid of various contributors but others evolved subtly while still embodying their creator. \u201cMontana\u201d is remixed twice on the album, once by Christopher Willits and once by Few Nolder, but both interpretations show stark differences and are simultaneously salubrious for your musical psyche. Willits\u2019 of the ethereal, panoramic, ambient variety and Few Nolder\u2019s a chilling house take that largely stays true to the original Tycho arrangement. On the contrary, <em>Awake Remixes<\/em>\u00a0is far from homogeneous when in the reflection of 2014\u2019s <em>Awake. <\/em>The cast of guests featured have done\u00a0<em>Awake <\/em>a great service by showcasing a taste and approach capable of taking eight tracks to another level while still turning out an inherently \u2018Tycho\u2019 record; one its Ghostly torchbearers will delightfully champion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended If You Like: ODESZA, Com Truise, Shigeto, RJD2, Bibio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Tracks: 6 (Apogee), 1 (Awake), 7 (Spectre), 5 (See)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Not Play: None<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by Harrison Hipp on 01\/27\/16<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cast of guests featured have done Awake a great service by showcasing a taste and approach capable of taking eight tracks to another level while still turning out an inherently \u2018Tycho\u2019 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1602,"featured_media":40983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,4,3235,3230],"tags":[4191,4192,4194,4196,4193,2639,4195,485],"class_list":["post-40982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hopelectronic-rotation","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","tag-awake","tag-awake-remixes","tag-bibio","tag-com-truise","tag-ghostly-international","tag-harrison-hipp","tag-rjd2","tag-tycho"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tycho-Remixes-e1453942213724.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}