“It promises an escape that sounds anything but idyllic, as terse robot voices intone the title phrase over stuttering, minimalist break beats… a leftfield electronic delight that’s well worth getting hold of.”
Little Nobody – in fact Australian expat Andrez Bergen, who’s been based in Tokyo these past 10 years – then decided to ask Justin Robertson (Lionrock) to remix. While counting on Robertson’s experience rebooting Björk, Happy Mondays, Fatboy Slim, Luke Slater and Felix Da Housecat, Andrez is also a long-time fan and suspected the mix-master would have an absolute field day here – which he apparently did, giving the ingredients a good hearty shake and delivering a concoction that stunned everybody.
While the sounds may be disparate – just like Little Nobody’s own output – the key here is a revitalizing look at the real adventure of electronic music; of redefining the genre in a playful, inventive manner. So Andrez (again) got curious to see what like-minded producers would do with the same sound-sources, and chose a bunch of his favourite musicians.
In 1995, Andrez had a radio show on 3PBS FM in Melbourne (Australia) called Cyberdada, and that year the most-played record – amidst killer 12-inches from Relief, Axis, Tresor, Trope, and Force Inc – was actually a double-CD from Austrian label Cheap. It was called 90 Minutes in the Eyes of iO, produced by label bosses Patrick Pulsinger and Erdem Tunakan. Bergen says that the release floored him, and Pulsinger has continued on as a mainstay influence in Little Nobody’s musical reference pallette ever since, via the Austrian producer’s own output (on labels like Disko B, Compost, Studio !K7, R&S, and International DJ Gigolo) as well as some of his brilliant remixes of people like DJ Hell, Chicks On Speed, Tosca, Tanzmusik and Ken Ishii.
Which brings us up-to-scratch, and Bergen’s Funk Gadget persona. In a recent review, Fun In The Murky scribe Trevor Wilkes described the Funk Gadget track ‘Blah Blah‘ as “Broken, bass-heavy beats and a wobbly synth; this one was felt two floors away when I first fired ‘er up.”
So when it came to choosing a remixer, Pulsinger’s name was at the very top of Andrez’s list – and now we know why. His mix is all wonderful bleeps, mesmerizing glitches, and chunky, sci-fi electro-tech grooves.
Tracklisting:
01. Poiseworks – Shin Nishimura Remix
02. Compulsion – DJ Wada Remix
03. Metropolis How? – Dave Angel Remix
04. Robota – Dave Tarrida Remix, feat. Robo*Brazileira
05. Cocaine Speaking – Mijk van Dijk Remix
06. Blah Blah – Patrick Pulsinger Remix
07. Compulsion – Donk Boys Remix
08. Metropolis How? – James Ruskin Remix
09. Get Away From It All – Justin Robertson Remix
10. Cocaine Speaking – Captain Funk Remix
11. Blah Blah – Si Begg Remix
Release Date: 2 March 2012
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