Various Verses, by Various Production (CD on Various Production)

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Label:	Various Production
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Catalogue number:	VARS021
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Various Productions second album is out. 'Various Verses' is basically a collection of remixes. It has them remixing Sugababes, SIA, Ian Brown, Foals as well as a collaboration with Emma Pollock. They add their sounds and keep all the vocals intact. It's not bad at all. I doubt I'll be rushing to take it home but there are some cool moments. The Virus Syndicate tune is decent like and the Ian Brown one get some bass roughage thrown into the mix. The mix of Foals 'Red Sox' leaves me a little cold though. There are also mixes from current trendies Rustie, Zomby, Actress as well as Zan Lyons and Milanese.

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Recognised by The Guardian as “A band that veers from avant pop to dubstep… Essential.”, and noted in Stylus Magazine for "A dizzying collection of styles and shapes— from dubstep, to playgirl grime, to spartan folk... as talented at sequencing as they are at hunting down fascinating vocalists", the mighty Various Production are within touching distance of finishing work on their hotly-anticipated second full length set. When it was suggested that part of the whipping-up of frenzy in advance of that album should include a CD of their series of breathtaking 7-inch singles stretching back to 2005’s ‘Hater’, the idea very quickly mutated – in characteristic VP style – into ‘Various Versus’ : a 14 track collection in which Various Production’s shapeshifting renovations of Ian Brown (‘Sister Rose’), Foals (‘Red Sox’), Virus Syndicate (‘Apollo’), Sugarbabes (‘Too Lost In You’), SIA (‘Where I Belong’), Emma Pollock (‘Limbs’), MIA (‘Bird Flu’) and Adele (’Chasing Pavements’) rub shoulders with bespoke refixes of their own tunes by a carefully assembled cabal of some of the freshest faces in electronic music, namely Zomby (Hyperdub), Rustie (Stuff), Milanese (Warp, Planet Mu), Zan Lyons (Moshi Moshi, Foundry), and Actress (Werk Discs). All VP remixes of other artists are officially sanctioned, several of which have to date been digital-only or previously unavailable releases, while the new readings of their own original material have been specially commissioned for this project. Archiving some of their very finest mixes, fixes and version excursions, ‘Various Versus’ continues to establish VP’s credentials as one of the most unhindered and effortlessly creative studio units operating anywhere today, and will further consolidate their position among the global elite of relentlessly inventive sonic re-stylers. Presented in the latest in a long line of beautifully-artworked covers by in-house designer Bonesy, ‘Various Versus’ is a unique summary not only of the innovative and unexpected music this prodigious team habitually and effortlessly draw from the most unlikely sources, but also of the way they inspire the same creative heights in others.