- From Vex'd to Kuedo, Jamie Teasdale has traversed a parallel trajectory to dubstep as a whole. Degenerate added high-midrange rhythmic experimentation to the sound at the time, and Videowave takes the '80s-style synth patches and lush chord progressions of the current wave and runs them through a mangler. It's a thread that Teasdale and the remixers are all on here. Illum Sphere's "Starfox" remix is Kuedo's original played in a dusty old concert hall by an orchestra of faulty robots. It's quieter and more fractured, distilling the melancholia of the original.
Heterotic's remix is more floor-geared, but beautiful as well: bittersweet nostalgia over a stiff-edged, skittering drum machine jive. "Take Off," a Kuedo remix of an unreleased Slugabed track, is definitely the most damaging thing here. It's gleaming and intimidating, starting off with hyperactive digital cascades and then dropping into a massive, crashing beat. "Oh" is the next one down energy-wise, sounding something like a brightened ADD mix of Aphex Twin's "Aegispolis."
Tracklist A1 Slugabed - Take Off (Kuedo Remix)
A2 Starfox (Illum Sphere's Re-Fox)
B1 Glow
B2 Shutter Light Girl (Heterotic Remix)
B3 Oh