Erol Alkan has done it again kids! He really does cast his ol’ fishing net out long n’ wide, and like normal, he comes back with a bulging bag full of sweet lemon scented fishes and beautiful baked loafs to wet everybody’s appetite! Well done Sir!
‘Congratulations’ (Erol Alkan Remix) embarks on a celestial ride without taking a visionary 2001 space odyssey as a slight detour, while Ed Banger’s workforce go jumping on some well placed trampolines in the sight of that slam dunking uplift, which centres around a few ‘Siberian Breaks’ that lead onto an old skool AIR-like quality. (It flutters off towards the end to a world that afterhours electronica and James Zabiela know all too about. Wonderful!)
‘Brian Eno’ (Cornelius Mix) wraps things up with a trademark ode to the most celebrated of studio album producers and Cornelius polishes a track which sounds like you should be in a ballroom looking all prime n’ proper, with the all ladies doing a grand curtsy in their big, tent like skirts and the men bowing gracefully once they all know that they are on a promise for a good time later. Quirky, bleepy and original, Cornelius throws out a funny but highly good remix.
The “Congratulations” LP has been thrown a long awaited and most subliminally sighted lifeline. Top marks to all involved!
MGMT – Congratulations (Erol Alkan Rework)
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