Michigan-based sound maker Jay Bodley records under the name A Setting Sun. His music fits snugly into the ambient electronic genre and true to his moniker his tracks edge gracefully along without any sense of urgency, making them perfect for late evening horizon watching. At the beginning of 2010 he released Flower Garden Of Doom on Moodgadget Records, a label which also has its origins in Michigan but has since relocated to Brooklyn. Bodley has enlisted some of his like-minded peers to remix tracks from that album for a companion piece – the more optimistically titled Flower Garden Of Rejuvenation.
Giuseppe Ielasi, best known for his electro-acoustic releases on the Hapna and 12K labels offers up an impressionistic glitch-ified symphony of music box melodies. Michigan gets even more representation with remixes by homeys Benoit Pioulard and DIAL81. Pioulard puts his sublime stamp on the original Solaris Ocean with his trademark recipe – 1. Record on a used cassette tape. 2. Leave under car seat for 6 months. 3. Sweeten with vocals and simmer on low heat until cooked to perfection. DIAL81 dials up the funk factor on Sun Hammer Pounding with some pounding drum samples and vibes of his own. Radere’s more pensive take on the same track adds environmental field recordings and takes the listener on a dreamy early morning hike through his own imaginary flower garden. Bodley reconfigures himself on Raspberry with a piece that doesn’t deviate dramatically from the original but could just as easily serve as a worthy extended coda to it. Rounding out the set is powerhouse duo Nadja who take on Solaris Ocean and send stones skipping across its sun-dappled surface resulting in a off-kilter alignment of loops that simultaneously surge forward and fold back upon themselves.
Flower Garden Of Rejuvenation by A Setting Sun is available for download from Moodgadget Records onhalcyondigi.com
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