Friday, July 21, 2023

Kai Campos & Mount Kimbie - City Planning (Deluxe)

Kai Campos presents his half of Mount Kimbie’s bisected MK 3.5 album with an array of remixes reinterpreting his technoid train journey. Nocturnal underground club rhythms spark along the tracks, as mechanical groans and electric currents lurch over undulating waves on Ploy’s ‘Zone 3 (City Limits)’ remix. Octo Octa provides a vigorous extended cut of house euphoria on her ‘Dream On And On Suite’ with shuffling train cars and the flickers of passing lights, meanwhile Client_03 and Drexciyan affiliate DJ Stingray both gutturally rework ‘Quartz’, the former’s synths storm incessantly through acid soaked rhythms, and the latter’s industrial percussion is absolutely crushing.

Beatrice Dillon (PAN, Trilogy Tapes, Poly Kicks etc) takes control of the percolating nocturnal melodies of Zone 3. Forest Drive West (Livity Sound, Ilian Tape, Delsin) entraps the frantic percussive hits of Quartz. Robert Hood (M-Plant, Tresor, Dekmantel) opens up Zone 3 City Limits again forming a classic eyes down techno roller.

Stopping off at some of the finest studios on the planet, City Planning (Deluxe) rides a journey through electronic productions various tangents without fault.

Tracklist:
1. Q
2. Quartz
3. Transit Map (Flattened)
4. Satellite 7
5. Satellite 9
6. Satellite 6 (Corrupted)
7. Zone 3 (City Limits)
8. Zone 2 (Last Connection)
9. Zone 1 (24 Hours)
10. Industry
11. Human Voices
12. Zone 3 (City Limits) (Beatrice Dillon remix)
13. Zone 3 (City Limits) (Gadea's Chasing Cicadas)
14. City Limits (Robert Hood remix)
15. Satellite - Q Zone (Octo Octa's Dream On And On Suite)
16. Satellite 7 (Lady Blacktronika remix)
17. Zone 3 (City Limits) (Ploy remix)
18. Quartz (Forest Drive West remix)
19. Quartz (Kush Jones remix)
20. Quartz (Client_03 remix)
21. Quartz (DJ Stingray remix)
22. Zone 3 (City Limits) (Gadea's Sculptural Process)