To call this release an extended-play requires a level of perception or intelligence quotient significantly higher than mine may ever be, what with it being composed merely of two remixes, each of which clocks in around the seven minute-mark. Yet over fourteen and a half, there's ample evidence here to suggest that Cooper reinserts a great deal of intelligence into the broadest of genres that can, at its most commercial, be the most derided and downright lunkheaded. Here however, it's at its most seductive. Get People may be unremarkable at best, yet Cooper translates the previously forgettable jolt of Careless into a complex, pulsating swell of tripped out sounds that, as if stupefied, suitably trip over each other throughout.
We of course live in a fickle world, and music is as fickle a biz as any. Thus while an excessive number of plays garnered by an artist on their Soundcloud may not explicitly elucidate the greatest thing to be spewed out of the internet since iOS 5, it may every now and then point to their finest work. And that's certainly the case with Cooper, his melodramatic interpretation of Hiatus' Third not only picking up a respectable 16,000-odd plays, but also stunning into submission. Asiatic scrapes soar atop murky surges of bass, before sombre, staccato pianos and much clacking emerges like faceless beings sombrely wading onto the shoreline from a sable ocean. Overwhelming on record, it's the sort of track that'd make lurking in the dank corners of the Electrowerkz 'til six in the morn seem as attractive and worthwhile a prospect as any.
Amalgamations is out now, and ought to be heard to be believed. Click away above, or on Cooper's Soundcloud.
