6/9 - The Golden Filter

Oblique lyrics, shimmering vocals, and glittery remixes. The Golden Filter is kind of a mystery at this point - a collective of New York artists and musicians that reach into other peoples' songs and make them ominously gorgeous, and shapeshift them into somthing brand new. There're no stuttery vocal scratches, and tired old loops in these reformed gems, either. Their remix of Little Boots' "New In Town," sounds like two songs battling for dancefloor dominance. It starts with a deep and dark disco tsunami, and ends with a joyous layered chant of the chorus.

With their remix dance card overflowing, The Golden Filter has generated considerable anticiapation for an album of originals. The first single, "Solid Gold," halts all that embarrassment you feel over kinda-sorta starting love disco again dead in it's Fiorucci tracks. If this collection of blissed-out dreamy vocals (harking in a manner, the sensous first third of Blondie's "Atomic") and hedonistic symphonic beats is disco, then screw it, I'll take it. It's music from a different decade of New York - half a soundtrack to key parties and dark corner feel-ups, and equally a soundtrack to an anti-gravity outerspace cocktail reception. From the sound of the demos on their Myspace page, it seems as though the rest of the album will bring much of the same.

Sure, why not?



http://www.myspace.com/thegoldenfilter