News — Reworks Volume 1

Metronomy 'The Bay' (Erol Alkan's Rework) taken from his 'Reworks Volume 1' compilation, a track long been out of print and highly sought after on vinyl. "This rework of 'The Bay' for Metronomy was probably one of the fastest I've made, it was put together in around 4 hours. It only uses the sounds from the original, which I chopped up from the stems and re-arranged, it's likely the kick drum is slightly different too, I think I replaced it with a Linn drum machine kick just to punch that little bit more.. This was also 100% finished in my head before I...

Chilly Gonzales 'Never Stop' (Erol Alkan Rework) taken from his 'Reworks Volume 1' compilation, a track long been out of print and highly sought after on vinyl. "This rework for 'Never Stop' by Chilly Gonzales is another one which took a few attempts. I spent around a month working on a really slow, Balearic mix which was centred around the piano riff, it almost drove me insane. I couldn't add anything of value to that piano part, so I admitted defeat and did two things: 1: I made a version with just piano, just to satisfy myself that I could so something different using just...

Tame Impala 'Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind' (Erol Alkan Rework) taken from his 'Reworks Volume 1' compilation, a track long been out of print and highly sought after on vinyl. "This rework for Tame Impala proved to be one of the trickiest on the compilation. Rewind back to 2010, I was asked to remix 'I Don't Really Mind' from Innerspeaker, I ended up making a version which was good, it had a nice acid line, a sweet 3 minute Juno synth drone breakdown, and chopped up vocals. I sent it to the label and it was approved a few days later, but in...

Daft Punk 'The Brainwasher' (Erol Alkan's Horrorhouse Dub) taken from his 'Reworks Volume 1' compilation, a track long been out of print and highly sought after on vinyl. "I reworked Daft Punk's 'Brainwasher' back in January 2006, I didn't receive the parts as Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Man were away from the studio at the time, it was made using the master track which I chopped up in the sampler, and then built the rest of the track around it. It was heavily influenced by hearing records by Meat Beat Manifesto, Renegade Soundwave, Eon and 'The Exorcist' by The Scientist on pirate radio...