Would ‘PVC’ be the answer if most Horsers were challenged to name their favourite Eryk Orpheus track? It’s still mine – hardly a surprise as it’s the only UK freeform track I’ve ever played in a club – but Eryk’s psy-influenced modern style has plenty going for it, too. This inspired remix of This Place Is A Shelter comes pretty close to merging the two, and shows that his ear for a melancholy breakdown sample is as sharp as ever.
As often these days I find myself wishing that the post-breakdown lead had some more Finnish/Japanese ‘rawness’ to it, but it’d be silly to criticise a UK freeform track for sounding the way it was intended. I’d love to hear this one in a Transcend-style ‘intelligent UK freeform set’ someday – as much as I enjoy it I’m not sure it’ll fit into any of mine for a while.
As a bootleg remix it’s available for free on the Intelli-trance bandcamp.
This compared to @shimotsukei’s version is actually poles apart!! It’s the opening track to a mix removed from soundcloud. Shimo can surely recall which mix I’m refering to as it’s the only one with (well known to me) this Eryk Orpheus remix. The post-breakdown lead fills the void pointed out. I’ve uploaded the mix to my one drive so I can share this BANGER. My first listen to Betwixt & Between – The gates of the silver key was on here, and from thereon it’s total carnage!!! A really well constructed mix with pioneer transitions which I won’t run through the tracklist and kill the essence as my word will just be a blabber.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_iiyQ5SSBHMe-mkIXfnSYi_dfuSjNqOI/view?usp=sharing
If sharing this is actually an issue I apologize, it was shared with clean intent.
Thanks a lot Imran 🙂 I was talking to Shimo about this recently and she said the same about how different the track was – I didn’t expect the post-breakdown to change so much, that’s exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for. It’s in a different key as well, so all kinds of changes from the version up on soundcloud.
Probably best if we run it by Shimo whether it’s ok to be online again, but I’d be happy to give the whole set a relisten after so long!