What with everyone drooling over TKOL RMX 1234567 at the minute, this seems as good a time as any for the preconceptions of the remix to be reassessed, the limitless boundaries of its potential stretched, its infinite potential unleashed. And unleashing a seething hound of a thing is precisely what Doldrums has done in reinterpreting Portishead's Chase The Tear, the track they themselves struggled so consistently with recreating at July's inaugural I'll Be Your Mirror atop a hill in Alexandra Park. With the ink still drying on a deal with No Pain In Pop (the discographic home of Forest Swords, patten, Echo Lake, etc.), the 21-year-old Torontonian dismembers the track, before reconstituting it in such a way that it sounds like Bradford Cox squirming in chase, a rabid beast of a mutated beat in hot pursuit. It will feature on the flipside of a 12" pressing of the original out on XL on November 14th, with all proceeds going to Amnesty International. CHASE THE TEAR (portishead / doldrums split 12") by DOLDRUMS
