- "Epic" is a little too easy a word to throw around. But every once in a while a track blooms out of the speakers, and that word comes to mind and won't leave—the music beckons it. That's Glasgow trouper Marco Bernardi's "Klinsfrar Melode," whose reflective-metallic synth shudders and patient marching-in-place bass bump make the track, at root, dub techno. Yet those layers build up with the lush air of something you might have half-remembered from a vintage Renaissance mix. The synths billow in a massaging way, but a hint of restraint keeps the track from spilling out all over the place.
If anything, Terre Thamelitz's remix as DJ Sprinkles blows the track out even further, and not just because his "Deeperama Remix" is 13 minutes rather than the eight-and-a-half of the original, though that certainly doesn't hurt. He gives the track a very late '80s sounding dub house treatment: nag-and-plod keyboard bass, papery drum machine snares, what sound like animals being imitated by people weaving through the mix, a vocal syllable stuttered a la early Chicago house and a big crayons approach to echo and FX. There's an innocence-regained quality to it, captured best in a snippet from the most inexhaustible of a cappellas: "Let there be house!"
Tracklist A Klinsfrar Melode
B Klinsfrar Melode (DJ Sprinkles Remix)