Iz and Diz - “Mouth (Brad Peep’s Remix for Friends)
Lately I have been having a lot of fun with Pépé Bradock’s collection of remixes Confiote de Bits, which Philip Sherburne reviewed rather breathlessly for Pitchfork earlier this year. On first listens, I wasn’t very wowed, but this is a subtle sort of dance music, and it has really wormed its way in. Bradock knows his way around a vocal sample (the records remind me a lot of Isolée and Luomo, which is a bit of a compliment), and the tracks are troves of microhousey detail that seem basically calculated to make Sherburne cream himself. But! They’re also very soulful and deep in a way that seems very zeitgeisty, despite the fact that these mixes have been done over the last decade.
Anyway, the remix of “Mouth” is a pretty great encapsulation of all the things that make this record worth checking out, and, um, the person who spliced together all the Charlie Chaplin footage to make the inspired visual accompaniment may have too much time on his hands, but at least he uses it to make awesome things.
