Pantera - Biomechanical mixes

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.

– Cosmo Lee