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Someday someone will clear massive legal hurdles and issue a box set of Justin Broadrick’s remixes. (You can see a list of them here.) Until then, one will have to collect them individually. Has anyone heard the Godflesh remix from 1994 of the Lemonheads??? (Here is an interview from then that asks Broadrick, among other things, if he is a fan of the Internet.)
Fucking Hostile (Biomechanical Mix)By Demons Be Driven (Biomechanical Mix)
Equally strange is the fact that Broadrick did two remixes for Pantera under the Biomechanical alias he used in the ’90s. They’re quite bad. If you didn’t like Pantera before them, you’d like them even less afterwards. At the time, Broadrick’s remix methodology seemed to be to “move stuff around.” Only in the ’00s would he delve into the deep editing and extra production that made his remixes sometimes more interesting than his own work. (His take on Pelican’s “Angel Tears” is one of the best rock remixes ever made.) Metal remixes were more miss than hit, but they were some of the cutest relics of the ’90s.
I wonder if Broadrick genuinely liked and admired Pantera or it was a case where these remixes were merely a rent payment. The two groups seem complete polar opposites as far as, well, everything.
You learn something new every day! I used to have this but didn’t realize it was JB who did it! I was a Pantera fan back then but didn’t know much about Godflesh. Very cool (even though the mixes weren’t that great).
If I remember right, those came out at the same time as a couple of Jim Thirlwell/Foetus remixes of Pantera songs. I was really excited about those, and they weren’t very good either.
I am enjoying all of the Broadrick love coming from this site the past few days.
The metal-remixes thing was a really weird little side trip, wasn’t it? I interviewed Jim Thirlwell for The Wire awhile back, and we talked about that brief moment where he was remixing Prong and Godflesh and Nine Inch Nails and even the Red Hot Chili Peppers, if I recall correctly. None of which remixes came close to being good, or touching his own Foetus stuff, but hey, I bet it paid more than a few bar tabs.
floodwatch – I’d buy the rent payment theory.
Path and Rob – Glad to be of service.
Jesse – Yes, Thirlwell did four remixes of “Walk,” three of which came out on various singles and EP’s. I’ve heard two of them, and they’re even worse than Broadrick’s. One of them was basically “Walk” plus extra noises, and the other was like if Phil Anselmo wandered into the recording sessions for The Downward Spiral. Good times.
pdf – Thirlwell was my first artist interview ever, back in my college radio days. I went into the interview completely unprepared and got chewed out by him for not knowing that Lydia Lunch was his partner. Good times.
You are totally right: the JB remix of "Angel Tears" is fan-fuckin-tastic. I also dig the Broadrick remix of Isis on SGNL>05, "Celestial (Signal Fills the Void)."
I think some posts on Thirlwell/Foetus stuff would be quite interesting.
Broadrick remixed the Lemonheads? LemonFlesh? GodHeads?