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- Well, hopefully people'll start listening up soon, because with the release of his remix of Klaxons' "Atlantis to Interzone", Mount may well have topped himself once and for all. It isn't just that it's catchy (which is kind of like saying "Ray Lewis isn't just a good football player because he's good at tackling"), but rather that, unlike large wads of Metronomy remixees, it's actually kindasorta faithful to the source material. I hasten to add that it's faithful in a bewilderingly oblique fashion; the original Klaxons take on the song is a straight-up raved-out buzzsaw of down-throwing, the kind of song that might as well have been grown in a lab to make all your obtuse metalhead friends who constantly (and erroneously) give you shit for listening to "all that faggy Connor Oberst shit" go completely off their boulder-filled heads - in other words, pretty much the exact opposite of Metronomy's aching, broken-sounding electro-sea shanty version. But the more I listen to it, the more I become convinced that it's the same kind of opposite as yin is to yang; after all, I'd say terms like "ragged" and "loosely bound" apply just as well to both versions, even if they manifest themselves in completely different ways. Consequently, I've been having a buttload of fun reading this track like a Rosetta Stone, assuming there's a correspondence between, say, Klaxons' frantic rave-siren punctuation and Metronomy's wheezing, accordian-like fever-murmurs; sometimes figuring out how musicians like to whip crowds into frenzies can be energizing enough , especially when you're dealing with an artist as bloodlessly blase on the surface as Metronomy. And quite simply, Mount's never come anywhere near this close to tipping his hand before, and now that the cat's out of the bag, I wonder if he'll ever be able to do so again. It'll be a whole hell of a lot of fun finding out, though.
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