Remix City: Tussle + Alexander Hacke of Einsturzende Neubauten, My Disco + Factory Floor

Vee Hua 華婷婷2 min readAugust 17, 2012Add comment
Remix City
Sifting through mountains of remix trash so you don’t have to, in an attempt to find the ones that contribute to their originals. Today’s installment goes industrial! Einstürzende Neubauten’s Alexander Hacke works his magic on San Francisco’s Tussle, U.K. post-industrial outfit Factory Floor turn Australia’s My Disco into a hardly recognizable form, and the post ends with a throwback to the brutality of Einstürzende Neubauten themselves, as remixed by Adrian Sherwood.

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Tussle

San Francisco’s groovy electronic act Tussle will be releasing their fourth album, Tempest, on September 25th via Smalltown Supersound! “Eye Context” is the first single from the album, now followed by a remix of “Yume No Mori” by Einstürzende Neubauten’s Alexander Hacke, who did a fantastic job working far out electronics in with brutal percussion and funky basslines.

 

My Disco

Australia’s “mantra-rock” trio My Disco have finally made use of their namesake to turn out a 12″ of dance remixes on Temporary Residence LTD, featuring reworks by Justin K. Broadrick of Jesu and Godflesh, and UK’s post-industrial Factory Floor. Limited to 1,000 copies, the 12″ coincides with the band’s European tour and is unrelentingly percussive and hypnotic, as they know how to do best. Below is a remix from DFA musicians Factory Floor, along with a couple tracks from their 2011 release, Little Joy.

 

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My Disco – “Wrapped Coast” (Factory Floor’s The Michael Cliffe House Remix)

My Disco – “Turn”

My Disco – “Closer”

 

Einstürzende Neubauten

To close this post, some tracks from the German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten, whose latest public-facing actions include a 2010 European tour celebrating their 30th anniversary and a reissue of Silence Is Sexy in Summer 2011. May the music video for “Z.N.S” back you back to caveman primitivism, and may the “Yu-Gong” remix by Adrian Sherwood, released in 1985, hypnotize you in the most jarring of ways.

Einstürzende Neubauten – “Z.N.S”

Einstürzende Neubauten – “Yu-Gong” (Adrian Sherwood Remix)

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Vee Hua 華婷婷 (they/them) is a writer, filmmaker, and organizer with semi-nomadic tendencies. Much of their work unifies their metaphysical interests with their belief that art can positively transform the self and society. They are the Editor-in-Chief of REDEFINE, Interim Managing Editor of South Seattle Emerald, and Co-Chair of the Seattle Arts Commission. They also previously served as the Executive Director of the interdisciplinary community hub, Northwest Film Forum, where they played a key role in making the space more welcoming and accessible for diverse audiences.

Vee has two narrative short films. Searching Skies (2017) touches on Syrian refugee resettlement in the United States; with it, they helped co-organize The Seventh Art Stand, a national film and civil rights discussion series against Islamophobia. Reckless Spirits (2022) is a metaphysical, multi-lingual POC buddy comedy for a bleak new era, in anticipation of a feature-length project.

Vee is passionate about cultural space, the environment, and finding ways to covertly and overtly disrupt oppressive structures. They also regularly share observational human stories through their storytelling newsletter, RAMBLIN’ WITH VEE!, and are pursuing a Master’s in Tribal Resource and Environmental Stewardship under the Native American Studies Department at the University of Minnesota.

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