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Cmx XII

by Coppice Halifax

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The twelfth volume of the ongoing Cmx series of remix compilations arrives just in time for spring, with 75 minutes of CH composting for your ears.

Opening with the customary CH track to lead the way, we start with "Radioeye 22", an unreleased alternative mix of "Radioeye 20", which was itself released on a compilation at Data Network, Ukraine. From there, we progress slowly into a bubbling ambient techno field, with an unreleased remix for Alternating Queues, drafted during the mastering of his excellent Hand Sines album (Recycled Plastics). The AQ mix leans in and out of a bleepy coda, and brings us into the droning techno bounce of the Passage remix. Commissioned for the expansive Worked On album at Illuminated Paths, this mix was so warm and comforting that I nearly passed out in the studio finishing it. Next, we have the huge and almost beatless shoegaze bliss-out of "Albatross", a rare remix commissioned by a band (Jetman Jet Team) instead of a solo artist, that has been floating around the web without any kind of proper release. This mix pulses and throbs through a deep blue haze, relying mostly on an omnipresent bassline to carry everything else above it. The rhythms pick back up on "Temperature Inversion", a minimal dub techno rephrase of a track from Anders Peterson's Skyscaper project, which until now has also remained unreleased. The next mix, the shortest piece of the remix lot, is the previously unreleased mix of Royce Allen's "She Cried", which was a sporadic side-effect of mastering Allen's EP in 2014. This mix is a strange coalescing of irregular percussive forms and shuddering, wet grey shapes, draped over a wobbling structure that never quite holds itself upright. The closing piece, a 16 minute creep out for COAL's Infested release in 2016, slowly lurches forward through ring-modulated dub chords, distant tangles of tonal atmospheres and skeletal drums. A dark, yet suitably expansive, curtain to pull across a varied set of remix works.

Altogether, as always, the Cmx volumes seem to flow intuitively in and out of themselves, as if they were albums in their own right long before I considered them as such. Hopefully, this tableaux of reconstructions stands alone as a Halifaxian landmark, while also paying appropriate tribute to the original artists' works. Every remix on this release was created using a strict system of employing only the original source sound, with no sounds of my own added during the remix process.

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released May 17, 2018

Written by the credited artists. Produced and remixed by Coppice Halifax, except #1: W/P by Coppice Halifax. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Recorded various dates 2014-2018. Cover design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number MML125. Tracks 1/2/4/5/6 previously unreleased.

Special thanks to all of the members of the Milieu Music Fan Club at Patreon (www.patreon.com/analogbotany). With their continued support, more music like this release can happen! At the present moment, the members of the Fan Club are: Justin T, Burton T, William C, Brian C, Chris S, Levi G, Rich A, Jonathan W, Joel B, Matthew D, Peter B, Rik J, Jose S, Tony S, Alex G, Seth B, Jim P, David T, Devin H, Mathieu L, Andy B, Francois H, Benoit P, Daniel F, Gordon C, Alex K, Peter B, Sean W, Alex B.

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Coppice Halifax Dayton, Ohio

Analog Botany, since 2005.12.08. Impressionist techno and bedroom fantasist electronics. Compost instead of composition.

I also release music as Milieu: milieumusic.bandcamp.com

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