- Zoë Xenia's "Avoid" develops with no sense of even slight surprise but some small amount of style nonetheless. Xenia, from the Netherlands, uses her voice, cut to pieces and employed in full, over a mechanistic house throb with a jazzy sort of skip to the beat. The track takes on parts where the adds would seem to want to go—clipped guitar, some piano, swirly filter breakdown, etc.—until Xenia is throatily singing variations on "free yourself" and "embrace yourself." The jumpy, quasi-antic mix of it is enough to make certain among us want to hear Basement Jaxx instead, but alas.
A remix by Mr. Minimalistic squeezes the original into a barely recognizable vessel for noise and unexpected aggression, with a welcome kind of mechanoid mystery at play. Sezer Uysal's remix takes the house aspect of the track and goes toward the gleaming, while Soundbalance's plays toward bulbous tech house pastiche and Von Smir's flails around a sped-up beat poised—and poised and poised—for a blast explosive enough, for better or worse, to blow the air out of a room.
Tracklist01. Avoid The Void
02. Avoid The Void (Sezer Uysal Remix)
03. Avoid The Void (Soundbalance Remix)
04. Avoid The Void (Mr Minimalistic Remix)
05. Avoid The Void (Von Smir Remix)