February 25, 2005 | Posted by Blair at 3:35 PM

Not one to shy away from a challenge

busted
"Begollar Tempus (Aelters Remix)" by Soul Junk

Well, its Friday, and though I usually post techno, I'm going to try something more challenging today. This one is a little bit tricky, and it took me listening to the album this came off of a few times before I decided on this particular track, but I want to present something from my friends at the experimental Sounds Are Active label by Soul Junk.

Soul Junk is Glen Galaxy aka Galaxalag and Slo-Ro - together they make experimental electronic music and abstractions of hip-hop. They've collaborated with with Viva Voce (who some may remember from here), Daniel Smith, and recent journalist-favorite Sufjan Stevens.

Their latest album, 1937, is a remix project, with contributions running the experimental gamut by M.C. Ponderosa (one of Slo-Ro's new guises), Create (!), Hairspray or No?, Wobbly, [dREKKA], Dev79, Leafcutter John, and re-works by Soul Junk themselves. The album, despite how disparate the group of remix-ers is, is surprisingly consistant and listenable.

The mix I chose comes from Aelters - one-third of the French group DAT Politics, who's melodic yet glitchy, audio destruction-loving tracks and remixes have been released on TigerBeat6, FatCat, mille plateaux, Ninja Tune - their latest album, Go Pets, Go has been getting very good press indeed. Anywho, this mix is all krazy, high-bpm drum 'n' bass, and acid squiggles not unlike early-era Squarepusher. I like it. If you do too, I suggest picking up the cd - buy it here, and check out their earlier work at insound.

In weirder news, Soul Junk, as a band, is basically over but there's good news on the horizon. Glen is at work (no, seriously) on a full bible translation-into-music on CD - Genesis is forthcoming - and and Slo-Ro is executive producing new records by Castanets and his wife Liz Janes, both of which are coming out on the awesome Asthmatic Kitty label.

Comments

electro-nerd-hop. i like it.

Posted by: garcia at February 25, 2005 9:37 PM

~YEAH! Soul-Junk! Listen to their new stuff! Listen to their old stuff! Read the Bible more then both! No I'm not joking.

Posted by: skab at February 25, 2005 10:11 PM

i wonder if Aelters read the Bible before remixing this track?

Posted by: Clarence Darrow at February 25, 2005 10:40 PM

whoa. I used to kinda-sorta follow Soul-Junk. From their 1951 album until 1957.... but "1937"? is a new one?

what's with the chronology-change?

Posted by: Klif at February 26, 2005 3:43 AM

re: Soul-Junk chronology: all of the full length records run in ascending order from 1950 through, most recently, 1958. conversely all the EP's run in decending order from 1949 through, again most recently, 1937.

Posted by: schlarb at February 26, 2005 10:37 AM

oh! and blair! very nicely researched and hypertext-laden post! it's funny but a lot (A LOT) of people don't know that Sufjan played drums and sang on 1942 by Soul-Junk which was released by Sounds Familyre (Daniel Smith's record label).

Posted by: schlarb at February 26, 2005 10:39 AM
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