Presenting the first digital single, ‘Everything (Gone Crooked) / Go Slow Heart (Beat Crooked)’, from Crooked Man’s forthcoming, future-facing Transmission Towers remix album Crooked Transmissions on Luke Una’s É Soul Cultura label. Remoulding, re-energising and completely reworking tracks from Transmission Towers’ critically acclaimed debut LP, Transmission One, Crooked Man sets forth a whole new album’s worth of transcendental, tripped-out productions.
A key figure in electronic dance music’s history, Sheffield-born Crooked Man aka Richard Barratt released one of bleep techno’s defining records back in ‘89. Landing on Warp, it came under the alias Sweet Exorcist with the late great Richard H. Kirk. Since then, Barratt has put out a slew of exceptional productions under a variety of different monikers from Crooked Man and Parrot, to Earth Angel and Athletes of God. He has released on DFA, delivered countless remixes for Róisín Murphy and reimagined the likes of JIM and Joe Goddard. Every inch of that experience and expertise has been deployed on this Transmission Towers remix release.
‘Everything (Gone Crooked)’ takes the original and contorts it from a post-punk guitar trip into a cybertronic, new beat heater. A percussive state of hypnosis leads the charge, building the tension for a rumbling kick drum and buzzing synth-line to twist their talons into your mind. Eleanor Mante’s vocals take on a new vivacity. Afrofuturist, arresting and perfectly equipped to electrify any waning dancefloor into action.
Next, Crooked Man takes on the emotionally charged ‘Go Slow Heart’, morphing it from a celestial beacon of light into a Balearic, slo-mo, sci-fi tribal march. Tweaking out the synth melodies so they reverberate from ear to ear, Crooked Man’s kick thumps like a heartbeat, as the pads fall backwards into a sonic blackhole. Atop a thundering bassline and theremin-esque soundwaves, Eleanor’s vocal refrain is looped, echoed and imprinted into your consciousness – a cautionary mantra of reason, just as emotion is about to override logic.
Listen to ‘Everything (Gone Crooked) / Go Slow Heart (Beat Crooked)’ here
Press release courtesy of Only Good Stuff
