this
record (and it's other version, which is a bit more experimental) had a
ridiculous amount of talented people involved in creating it and the
result is very much the sum of it's parts. i can't say i ever came close
to emulating this monstrous masterpiece, but the aesthetic on the song
of the day is ultimately derived from this source (as well as halo 9).
(relevant tracks: medicated to the one i love, jesus gets fucked on robitussin, symphony 1, curious george, others)
and, this is where i put my obligatory influenced by post for the day, due to the track being a remix of this one. it was done for a fan comp on the glu list way back in the day and meant to take the track in a more experimental direction.
i got a very terse email from david reilly a few weeks or months later:
"i am aware of what you did to my song."
i'm not sure if we all got that kind of personal response or not. to a point, i can understand his revulsion. despite the nature of the backwards section, evocative or not, this is a pretty personal track, and i went to town with it in ways that i can understand a negative reaction to.
that's partly why i speak of the track, today, as influenced by this one, rather than a remix of it. and, that's actually closer to the truth. it's really barely recognizable.
but, fans of 90s nin remixes and/or the weirder reaches of experimental trip-hop might get something out of it.
as for the track itself, i found something strangely subversive about it. there's about twenty minutes of a minimal bass beats that follows the version on record, climaxing in a wash of noise. i don't really understand addiction, but the picture he paints (especially in the context of the full track, and the state of mind that the ambient bass section represents) is pretty distressing and hard not to react to.
