It may be in the DIY spirit of the Mood Taeg Kollective that sees members tdk and K’ko open this set of remixes of 2021 album ‘Anaphora’ with their own new poppier, toe-tapping take on ‘Happiness Fragment’, but the aim is to let musicians from their home cities loose on their work.
Thus, Dundonian graffiti artist Vera offers a sparser beat-heavy feel to ‘Konkord’, and Dusseldorf’s Liefergasse gives a Germanic swing to ‘Ohrwurm‘.
The ‘kollektiv’s third member Lowell Freeman also chips in with a chilled electronica-infused ‘Pilomotor Reflex’.
Two members of Spare Snare coincidentally offer wildly different version of ‘Diskonkordanz’ – Jan The Man gives the original sample-heavy track a fresh electropop twist while The Alien Cormorant’s take on the same tune somehow lands somewhere between 90s alt.rock and dub.
All of which breathes new life into a release that already stands on its own.
This article originally appeared in the Hartlepool Gazette.