Many people have been endlessly asking me, “What about the Portishead remix album? What about the Portishead remix album? When is it going to be done?” Well it is finally done and ready for consumption. For those who dont know, The Noise Floor Crew, started by Lady Foursquare, Angel Alanis (my partner in War Games) and myself, has been in the process of remixing the entirety of Portishead’s “Third” since about a month before it came out.
It began as one critically acclaimed remix of “Machine Gun” that was begging for more drums and snowballed into an all out reinterpretation of Portishead’s minimal masterpiece. Most are by NFC but we enlisted a couple of other producers, namely Flufftronix, 12th Planet, ASiH and A. Black, to round out the album. A few tracks were left in a somewhat recognizable state but most were torn to shreds and reassembled into an almost unrecognizable form. The individual tracks cover a broad range of styles from house to electro to minimal to maximal that all came together to make one hell of an album.
Is it better than the original? Am I allowed to ask that given my involvement? I guess it depends what you’re into, but our take certainly brings it out of the lofty art-rock realm and without dumbing it down. Anyways, I’ll quit talking it up and let you be the judge. As this is not a sanctioned remix album, I’m curious to see what Portishead will say about this since, in the past, they’ve been so staunchly against remixes of their own music. Below is a link to the entire album in a tidy .zip along with a lengthy (tl;dr) description of who Noise Floor Crew really is. I thought I’d also give it to you track by track as well but I’d recommend listening to it as a whole album. And be sure to go to somewhere besides itunes (damn the man) and buy Portishead’s album as well.
Third Floor – Portishead’s “Third” Reimagined by The Noise Floor Crew (ALBUM ZIP)
1. We Carry ON (Noise Floor Crew Rmx)
2. Nylon Smile (War Games Rmx)
3. Magic Doors (Noise Floor Crew Rmx)
4. Threads (Guest Mix By Flufftronix)
5. Machine Gun (Noise Floor Crew Rmx)
6. Plastic (Noise Floor Crew Rmx)
7. Silence (Noise Floor Crew Rmx)
8. Small (Guest Mix By ASiH + A. Black)
9. Hunter (12th Planet of N.F.C. Remix)
10.The Rip (Noise Floor Crew Rmx)
11.Deep Water (Noise Floor Crew Rmx)
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5 responses so far ↓
1 me // Jul 29, 2008 at 1:45 am
Love it…
2 AngelMuzik // Jul 30, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Wicked!!
3 Melanie Belle // Aug 5, 2008 at 3:49 pm
BRILLIANT!
4 Noise Floor Crew - Third Floor | House Music Blog TheFreshpage.com // Aug 14, 2008 at 12:53 pm
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5 me again // Apr 6, 2009 at 9:26 am
oh dear, there is something weird in this interpretations when you really felt in love with the melancholy of the original.
its “the cut your vains happily in the middle of the dancefloor mix” for me.
i like it anyway anyhow but this better than the original quote is blatant stupid.
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