1. Mensenkinderen - Een Blauwe Maandag (Machinefabriek remix)
2. Wouter van Veldhoven - Schetsje (Machinefabriek remix)
3. Fieldhead - Songs Well Known (Machinefabriek remix)
4. Aaron Martin - Necks of Wire (Machinefabriek remix)
5. Coppice - Hoist Spell (Machinefabriek's Philicorda version)
6. de la mancha - Release All Light (Machinefabriek remix)
7. The Mon Non Plus - Where is Everything (Machinefabriek remix)
8. Djivan Gasparyan - Moon Shines at Night (Machinefabriek remix)
9. Amon Tobin - Lost & Found (Machinefabriek deconstruction)
10. Gareth Hardwick - Lost in the Memory (Machinefabriek remix)
11. Fiium Shaarrk - Krypton Tunning (Machinefabriek remix)
12. Vladimir - Compare & Contrast (Machinefabriek remix)
13. Red Stars Over Tokyo - Guilded Houses (Machinefabriek remix)
cd on Zoharum, February 2016
A selection of my favorite remixes made between 2005 and 2015. Great to have these copmiled on one disc!
Most of these reworking have been released elsewhere, but used here with kind permission.
Reviews
Vital Weekly
The other new release by Machinefabriek is a compilation of remixes he did between 2005 and 2015. Now of course you know I am not someone who loves compilations, but there is the exception for the ones like this. People like Machinefabriek are always busy giving away their music to obscure compilations, creating hard to find remixes for obscure releases and a release like this makes it possible to get a complete(r) picture of his work (although diehard fans may still want the original release, I know). I know a lot of the Machinefabriek work, but of this thirteen track CD I may have heard one. Plus I was quite surprised by some of his clients, such as Amon Tobin (for Ninja Tune) and Djivan Gasparyan (for All Saints Records). Other musicians that get the remix treatment are Bas van Nienes, Wouter van Veldhoven (the one I heard), Fieldhead, Aaron Martin, Coppice, De La Mancha, The Moi Non Plus, Gareth Hardwick, Fiium Shaarrk, Vladimir and Red Stars Over Tokyo. There is one piece from 2005, but the rest is from more recent years, with nothing from 2006 and 2007. Not of all the artists mean much to me, so it's not easy to say in what way these pieces are different from the original, but in some cases there is indeed the trademark Machinefabriek sound to be detected, such as in the ambient sounds added to the Amon Tobin music, or the clicks in the Hardwick piece, which around that time, 2009, also popped up in the other work by Zuydervelt. In some of these pieces he also uses a bit of rhythm, which is something we haven't heard since his very early days if I recall well. This is a release that should appeal to a wider audience I would think and not just the diehard fans. There is, spread out over 80 minutes, lots of be discovered.
Ambientblog
As if his own output was not enough to convince us of his musical genius, Zoharum releases a compilation of remixes that Rutger ‘Machinefabriek‘ Zuydervelt has done for others. Almost all of the tracks of this compilation have been previously released, but most of them are hard to find now. I am not sure whether to call this a ‘various artists compilation with tracks by different artists all remixed by Machinefabriek, or a Machinefabriek album with sound sources from different artists. These are remixes, created for different occasions, but all of them have the Machinefabriek trademark pouring out of every detail. So in the end, this definitely is a Machinefabriek album – with a lot of different guest artists.
Some of the collaborating artists are familiar: Wouter van Veldhoven, Aaron Martin, Fieldhead, Gareth Hardwick. But there are also some surprising names: such as Djivan Gasparyan (!) and Amon Tobin.
Special props, by the way, to the cover (and inner) image, which perfectly captures the spirit Machinefabriek’s music!
Subjectivisten
Of ik ooit genoeg krijg van Machinefabriek? Vriest het ooit in de hel? Plast de Paus in het bos? Goed, nu dat duidelijk is komt Rutger Zuydervelt aka Machinefabriek nu eens met een ander talent naar voren, namelijk die van remixer en herschepper. Dit even los van zijn immense, kwalitatief hoogwaardige discografie waarmee je achter elkaar gelegd eenvoudig een baan om de aarde kunt vormen. Deze nu al legendarische elektronicaspecialist uit Rotterdam brengt op Zoharum, die eerder al de fraaie compilatie van zijn vele, vele, ja vele mini’s Dubbeltjes heeft uitgebracht, het album Wendingen (een zeer fraaie term voor remixen) uit. Of het allemaal artiesten zijn die hij bewondert of waardoor hij beïnvloed is weet ik niet, maar de gekozen selectie bevat wel veel ertoe doende en interessante artiesten. Daartussen zitten artiesten waarmee hij heeft samengewerkt, maar ook andere bekende en minder bekende namen. Het voelt daarom als een kijkje in de keuken van Machinefabriek. Via onderstaande link krijg je de volledige lijst met artiesten te zien, maar het gaat van Amon Tobin, Aaron Martin en Gareth Hardwick tot Fieldhead, Mensenkinderen, Djivan Gasparyan en Wouter van Veldhoven. De 13 tracks, die na bijna 79 minuten finishen, laten allen een onuitwisbare indruk achter met een Machinefabriek-stempel erop. Een keurmerk waarop ze trots mogen wezen. En Machinefabriek toont maar eens te meer dan dat in welke bochten het zich ook wringt er alleen maar kwaliteit uit voort komt. Een heerlijk gevarieerde mix!
