Horror mastermind John Carpenter has announced that this October will see the release of Lost Themes Remixed, which takes his debut solo album and sees several of its tracks get remixed by some of the most interesting names around, including ohGr, Silent Servant, Prurient, and more.
Dominick Fernow of Prurient had this to say:
John Carpenter is the master of sustained tension with electronic music. The fine line between stasis and energy is almost impossible to define but Carpenter consistently achieves this paradox with Spartan means. This remix attempts to break the compositional tension of Carpenter’s “Purgatory” and through a process of colliding loop cycles – a technique used on the Pleasure Ground album (by Prurient) reformatting the electronics into a earth like texture outside of the urban environments traditionally connected to synthesis.
Lost Themes Remixed comes out October 16th via Sacred Bones Records.
A stream of “Purgatory (Prurient Remix)” can be heard below.
Track list:
1. Purgatory (Prurient Remix)
2. Night (Zola Jesus & Dean Hurley Remix)
3. Wraith (ohGr Remix)
4. Vortex (Silent Servant Remix)
5. Vortex (Uniform Remix)
6. Fallen (Blanck Mass Remix)
7. Abyss (JG Thirwell Remix)
8. Fallen (Bill Kouligas Remix)
