What does Perc do to 'bouncer'?
Perc has spent two decades running Perc Trax, one of UK techno's most uncompromising imprints, and he treats MALUM's guitar-driven original with the same discipline he brings to his own records. "Bouncer" arrives stripped of its live-band skeleton and rebuilt around a relentless four-to-the-floor pulse, hi-hats locked into a grinding, industrial groove. It isn't a polite remix. Perc leans into pressure and repetition until the original melody becomes a texture buried inside the kick pattern, closer to a Perc Trax white label than anything MALUM has put out before.
Why does Mr. Ho's 'jeweltrain' remix matter?
Where Perc goes for maximum abrasion, Hong Kong producer Mr. Ho takes "jeweltrain" somewhere more hypnotic. His version threads house, techno and breakbeat through a shifting percussive skeleton that never settles into one groove long enough to feel predictable. It's the clearest evidence yet that MALUM's remix trilogy isn't a marketing exercise bolted onto a rock record: the band handed its catalog to producers who actually work the floors they're borrowing from, and both results sound like it.
Why is a Bergen art-rock band chasing techno credibility?
MALUM formed as a live club collective in Bergen and Oslo, built from jazz musicians who fold space-disco, breakbeat and post-rock into a physical, guitar-and-drums show, hardly the profile of a typical remix candidate. But the band became the first new signing to the revived Tellé Records, the Norwegian label behind Røyksopp, Kings of Convenience and Annie, and used that platform to hand its debut album "every body" to remixers across Bergen, Oslo, London, Berlin and Hong Kong rather than the usual one-off single treatment. An August chapter saw Prins Thomas rework the material into cosmic disco and Balearic house; "bouncer" is the second installment, pushing the same songs into harder club territory. No Transmission's review put it plainly: the results "aren't simply cleaner or louder versions of existing tracks, they feel like reinterpretations with their own logic."
"These aren't simply cleaner or louder versions of existing tracks, they feel like reinterpretations with their own logic."
