Is this the greatest remix of all time? Far from me to be hyperbolic, but it just might be. Hell Interface, aka Boards Of Canada, do something spectral with Midnight Star’s happy go lucky ode to joy, turning it into something spectacular, dark and disturbing. The original is great in any case, an evergreen earworm, but this Through The Looking Glass interpretation is pitch perfect. It’s a piece of body-popping, weird electro brilliance that exists in a world of its own. The vocals are trifled with just so, in other words not much at all, except for one or two off-kilter embellishments. There’s a soaring grandeur that just builds throughout, leading you up the garden path of delights, then you hit a pause of sorts at around the 3:10 mark, which drops you into a gorge of uncertainty. Boards Of Canada promised to “seduce and frighten” with their music. I think they more than deliver that here.
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