Lindstrom Feels Spaced by his Remixers

Hans Petter Lindstrom has exploded all over the earth in million little pieces of love that have been falling in some households and the space disco virus has been spread ever since. His success is mainly due to a track called I FEEL SPACE, put out on Playhouse in 2005, just prior to the release of the album "Lindstrom & Prins Thomas", a frozen masterpiece of surreal and dreamy downtempo and slow, deepening space disco.


Playhouse has just released a 12" with two new remixes of I FEEL SPACE, and I am pretty sure it will be a landmark in Lindstrom's carreer.

In the electro realm, there are some tracks that are best known for their remixes. Who remembers Spektrum's "Kinda New" before it was remixed by Tiefschwarz ? Who still listens to Mylo's original version of MUSCLE CAR ? When Freeform Five remixed that one, they added some vocals and their distinctive organic touch, and made it THEIR version, and it is now the one most widely remembered.

So a remix can be better than the original, of course. Especially when it's Freeform Five on duty. They did it with N.E.R.D.'s "Lapdance", and they did it with Lindstrom's classic.

Split in two parts (a recent trend among remixers, as seen with Ewan Pearson's remix of Goldfrapp's "Ride a White Horse") over about 12 minutes, the original song's spirit is kept, and even amplified. Some luscious guitar arrangements are added, as well as a grinding analog bassline of a complexity that equals only its beauty. Some whispery vocals are thrown on top of that for good measure, and it blends in quite well with the rest, creating an ever-lasting sensation that even 12 minutes of this... is not enough !

I'm not saying that the remix will surpass the original version, but it is a very fine one indeed.

...as for Tiefschwarz & Turntablerockers's re-edit, on the flipside, I wouldn't want to dismiss it as just a re-edit... but let's say it's basically what it is. Compared to FFF's impressive take on the A side, it pales a lot. Tiefschwarz have been losing a lot of their appeal, lately, and their remixes have stopped sounding "contemporary" to be a strange caricature of what they once were. They aren't renewing their sound at all, and it affects the timelessness of their work for sure.


Don't you think that Lindstrom, in this picture, looks like Billy from Six Feet Under ?! So... I heard via diverse voices (not all of them in my head) that the guy needed money these days. He might prepare his space craft to get the hell out of the planet, but we don't need to know that. Just help a brother out and buy some of his stuff !