Crystal Castles, the Toronto two-piece, are the remix artist of now.  The first sniff of their mastery came in the remix of The Klaxons’ Atlantis to Interzone’ - a blippy, abrasive entry into their electronic wonderland.

Then came the Castles’ remix of the Goodbooks’ ‘Leni’ which turned the original guitar pop goodness into a future-pop masterpiece.  ‘Leni’ hinged on the pitch-shifted central vocal, reminiscent of Karin Dreijer from The Knife. Underneath the vocal, the track chugs along on the back of a hi-res synth loop and Super Mario keyboard squelches. It’s the sound of a couple, madly in love, freebasing orange sherbet. 

The nadir of the Castles’ discography is the remix of The Little Ones’ ‘Lovers Who Uncover’. Opening with the desperate cry of, ‘Where do all the lovers, meet with one another?’, the track again centres on a haunting central vocal and a driving low end. The arpeggio makes you feel like a kid staring through a kaleidoscope and the voice rattles up and down, building intensity then releasing into the distance with an ecstatic ‘ooooh’. 

While their original work is yet to reach its potential, their remixes are enough to make you dream of a future musical world ruled by Crystal Castles. I Heart CC. By Nick Christie

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