Description
Minus The Bears sophomore album Menos El Oso was a significant departure from their debut fulllength Highly Refined Pirates. The playful guitartapping, fluid production and nostalgia-bating melodies were largely excised for air-tight drums, glitchy guitar samples and an overall air that was more of a futurist interpretation of sepia-toned noir than their predecessors contemporary Polaroid romanticism. It was an album that already sounded like a dark, stuttering remix of their previous efforts.
However, Minus The Bear were still in both spirit and instrumentation a rock band and those staccato riffs and dance beats practically begged to be re-examined from behind the producers console. So the band enlisted a team of underground remix artists to reinvent each of Menos El Osos eleven tracks. The resulting Interpretaciones Del Oso is a wild and imaginative ride through a dizzying array of sonic reconstructions.
P.O.S. makes Drilling a club banger; Fog turns Memphis & 53rd into the kind of murky gloom churned out by reclusive black metalhead Xasthur; Dälek producer Oktopus transforms The Game Needed Me into a dreamy druggy daze; Battles Tyondai Braxton deconstructs Fulfill The Dream into a send-up of classic Warp Records IDM.
As part of their 20th anniversary celebratory series, Suicide Squeeze are proud to offer a special vinyl repress of Interpretaciones Del Oso on turquoise and gold swirl coloured vinyl with updated artwork, printed inner sleeves and a download card.
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