RMX

Since the self-titled GoGo Penguin (Blue Note, 2020) made a defining summation of what the band is about, the occasion was just right to make a startling step sideways by overhauling the entire... — Allaboutjazz.com, 2nd May 2021, 3 and a half out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th May 2021
Catalogue No: 43565291
Label: Blue Note

1. Kora (Cornelius Remix)

2. Atomised (Machinedrum Remix)

3. Embers (Yosi Horikawa Remix)

4. F Major Pixie (Rone Remix)

5. F Major Pixie (Squarepusher Remix)

6. Open (Nathan Fake Remix)

7. Signal in the Noise (808 State Remix)

8. Totem (James Holden Remix)

9. To the Nth (Shunya Remix)

10. Petit_a (Clark Remix)

11. Don’t Go (Portico Quartet Remix)

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Cooked up in the Blue Note Lab, 'RMX' presents 2020's band-defining masterpiece, 'GoGo Penguin', re-imagined through the filter of some of the world's finest producers and remixers, including Cornelius, Machinedrum, Yosi Horikawa, Rone, Squarepusher, Nathan Fake, 808 State, James Holden, Shunya, Clark and Portico Quartet. For 'RMX' the idea was both simple and inspired; commission a remix of every track from the album and present a total re-imagination of the record, a remix, or as the band title it, a 'RMX'. In the end they went one better; with a remix of every track (and two of one) plus a remix of the track 'Petit_a', which was originally released only in Japan before surfacing on their 'Live from Studio 2' digital EP. The idea behind 'RMX' was also the catalyst for a remarkably inspired collaboration. The Manchester trio's music has always drawn heavily on electronica (alongside jazz, indie and classical influences) and so commissioning ten of their favourite artists to rework their music made perfect sense - and the results are spectacular.

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2nd May 2021

Since the self-titled GoGo Penguin (Blue Note, 2020) made a defining summation of what the band is about, the occasion was just right to make a startling step sideways by overhauling the entire thing. These pieces aren't remixes so much as reinventions. Each collaborator takes the basic core of their track and finds a fresh angle as if building it over from scratch.
3 and a half out of 5 stars

June 2021

…these remixes of their self-titled 2020 album emphasise how sui generis they’ve become in British jazz: of it but not quite in it (mainly to jazz’s detriment), and reaching for a bigger world.

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