Overall, these mixes run the gamut from almost good to negligible. This record is now shifting hands at around $50 a pop. Since I am interested in buying modern OMD on physical single format I was thrilled that I did not dawdle. The other upside was that unlike the CZ pressed “Roxy Music” Steven Wilson 2.0 remix LP I got in August, this German pressing sounded perfect! If they have to make me buy vinyl, at least let it sound this good. But no WAV files was the price I paid for saving a bundle on postage from the US UMG web store. European copies from the OMD web store in the UK came with a DL voucher and I thought that they all would.
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But not so much as the notion that McCluskey and Humphreys signed off on this mix! Then again, those guys also green-lit Micronauts, so there’s that.Īll of these mixes were available in the usual download stores, but my copy of the OMD mixes were from the oxblood 12″ single that I pre-ordered from the UMG web store and was released on November 27th. The accelerated crescendoes of drum machine fills were particularly galling. It’s not uncommon for “remixes” to be new from the ground up, including vocal, and this one sounded like just that. The song featured an echoey Andy McCluskey amid the heavy 808 and I swear that all but the band’s own “Extended Version” used a new vocal track as this one sounded somewhat different to the performance from 1980. The Theo Kottis remix was just the thing… if you needed to hear “Enola Gay” brought to its knees in a House Mix that flashed me back to 1994. It only sounded good as compared to the sheer atrocity of the 1998 Micronauts remix of “Electricity.” This mix was pulling in several different ways simultaneously and I can’t listen to it and hear anything worth recommending. Once Andy started singing in the mix, there were new shimmery tremolo synths that sounded as if they were playing the melody from the middle eight of “Good Vibrations” dropped into this hot mess. Worse, the drum loop itself sounded dangerously close to the “bongo feet” sound used to indicate running in Scooby Doo cartoons!Īt least Andy McCluskey was still in the mix, but his vocal sounded like it may have been a re-recording. And that busy drum loop at a much higher BPM than anything else in the song was flat out wrong. it sounded like the mix was fighting itself. While the droning hum of perhaps a bomber engine assumed the front and center spotlight. The mix was superficially closest to the original, at least at first, but with a really obnoxious, super busy drum loop loosed in the mix making it fight the original rhythm box for supremacy. Hot Chip have been one of “those bands” who I’ve heard their name bandied about for 10-15 years without actually hearing. The bomb blast drums and the drum machine toms made a re-appearance in the middle eight here, for the only call back to the original mix. The melody was constructed here as a methodical rondo which was pretty catchy. It might even be a new vocal by Andy given the treatment. The slow, stately pace was very OMD, but the vocal was vocoded throughout. The “Slow Mix” was as its name implied, a radical Post-Modern Remix of the song by the band as someone else would do it today basically re-constructing the song with a different arrangement, tempo, and even lead vocal. Overall the mix and EQ didn’t vary drastically, which meant that this “Enola Gay” still had the DNA of what we all know and love.
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And McCluskey’s vocals were doubled with chorus on the coda for a different feel. I did like the winsome synth leads at the end of the middle eight, though. The middle eight itself was less convincing than the original was with the chilling bomb blast drums of the original dissipated into less monolithic force. And the sound fo the song putting on the brakes like that to stop cold was jarring. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it was something that came much later in dance music. First of all, The Drop was not an established part of the remix vernacular at that time. The only part where it rankled me is in the drop before the middle eight. If they cheated then they did a great job of it. All of the elements here were from the master tape and there aren’t any modern elements that stick out like a sore thumb.
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It sounds exactly like what we were all expecting in 1980 when we bought the 12″ single but didn’t get.
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The band’s Extended Version began with the distinctive drum machine toms and the bass synth isolated for a classic 12″ buildup lasting almost a full minute as one by one, the rest of the song’s elements join in on the crescendo. OMD: Enola Gay 2020 Remixes – UK 12″ + DL