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Dubs Alive is honored to present their eighth release, The Club d’Elf Remix EP. The Spit Brothers have twisted two original compositions into deep, dubby, experimental remixes that are guaranteed to throb your subs.
Club d’Elf is a jazz collective with North African overtones lead by bassist Mike Rivard, who founded the group in Boston in 1998. Rivard has consistently brought together some of the most recorded and respected musicians in the world to create d’Elf’s jaw dropping line-up’s. For the band’s latest release Electric Moroccoland/So Below, Rivard gathered together over 26 musicians over the course of a 10 year period to create this epic double album.
For these two remixes The Spit Brothers have paid homage to the many nuances of d’Elf’s broad stylistic spectrum and warped them into a heavy, deep dubstep vibe. The two tracks feature samples of musical greats such as John Medeski, DJ Logic, and Dana Colley.
Trance Meeting draws upon Club d’Elf’s Moroccan influences with it’s shuffled 3 over 4 feel. A long note from Mike Rivard’s upright bass forms layers of enveloping wobble patterns, with heavy low end support. The live Moroccan influenced percussion and drum samples give this tune a bouncy, dubby swagger. The track is filled with warm harmonies from the Rhodes, subtle growls of a Mellotron, and a dubbed out version of the original horn melody tying it all together.
Salvia goes deeper into Club d’Elf’s experimental minimal jazz and dub influences. The track’s harmony is dark and cinematic, laced with eerie horn lines re-contextualized from the original. The Salvia remix drops into a cavernous bass dungeon, with walls covered in ambient chords and creeping horns. Out of the spacey mind-bending breakdown, the listener is guided into a section lead by a driving sub-low wobble complimented by syncopated percussion.
