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The Observatory - Behind These Eyes: The Catacombs Remixes
2xLP + download
First Pressing
200 units
Pressed on black vinyl and silver-grey coloured vinyl
Black & Metallic Silver print on Reverse Board Uncoated Jacket
Includes a download card for digital album
Release date: 25 April 2014
Preorder at $35 until 25 April [not incl. shipping]
Jointly released by The Observatory & Ujikaji
Two years after the release of The Observatory’s Catacombs comes the Singapore band’s first remix album. Widely regarded as The Observatory’s darkest and angriest release, Catacombs is a texturally complex and viscerally emotional album, a study in delusion, insanity and obsession. Now, 11 respected artists from Singapore, China, Norway, Thailand/Japan, and the US, have been invited to enter the vortex of The Observatory and rebuild their own sonic worlds from the detritus of that landmark album. Titled after a key lyric from Catacombs, Behind These Eyes sees these 11 visionaries steering the trajectories of the original album in different directions, resulting in a sprawling double LP that is by turns more violent, calming, morose, euphoric, abstract, and elegiac. While listeners new to The Observatory will find in these disparate tracks a strange but certain unity of spirit borne from passionate experimentalism, fans of the band may find, over the four vinyl sides, a lingering sensation of familiar displacement and the uncanny. An album forged out of friendships and collaborations, Behind These Eyes is jointly released by The Observatory and Ujikaji.
Original tracks by The Observatory
Interpretations by The Analog Girl, elintseeker, Evan Tan, George Chua, James Plotkin, Kiat, Koichi Shimizu, Lasse Marhaug, VAVABOND, X’ Ho and Xhin
Track list:
A
James Plotkin – Out of The Furrow
Koichi Shimizu – Accidentagram (Actified Mix)
Kiat – Catacombs (Chamber Mix)
B
elintseeker – Insomnia
The Analog Girl – Headworm (Vapours Rising Remix)
Evan Tan – The Argument (Hard Truth Remix)
X' Ho – Anger & Futility (DJ Mentor's Beijing Fireworks Rmx)
C
Lasse Marhaug – Ends to No Means
D
Xhin – Out of The Furrow
George Chua – Accidentagram (Martyrs' Blood)
VAVABOND – One-dimensional One
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