Señor Coconut and his Orchestra Behind the Mask Remixes Cat.-No. AY 07 (1) / AY 08 (2)
12” Vinyl 1 A: Ricardo Villalobos Remix 15:23 B: Al Usher Remix 7:15
12” Vinyl 2 A1: Single Mix 3:10 A2: Original Hamster's “Yellow Miami Magic Sound Orchestra Machine” Remix 3:08 B1: Don Atom’s “Super Volt Mix” 3:20 B2. Peter Rap Remix 4:06
Senor Coconut returns and this time the Chilean-based producer turns his hand to reworking Japan’s answer to Kraftwerk; Yellow Magic Orchestra. Taken from their 1980 Masterpiece ‘Xoo Multiples’ ‘Behind the Mask’ is one of YMO’s more well known experiments in melding electronics with more song based melodic pop.
Uwe Schmidt AKA Atom Heart AKA Senor Coconut has added his classic touches to the track in his usual classy style and the package comes backed up by some serious remixes from this years big playboys.
Fellow Chilean Original Hamster is first up to have a go at a re-work, a long time partner of Atom TM (aka Coconut) there is practically no musical style he hasn’t messed with. Here he turns in his "Yellow Miami Magic Sound Orchestra Machine Remix" which should start the body popping at many a beach party this summer.
For the Don Atom Super Volt Remix the Senor swaps heads for his own reinterpretation of his reinterpretation and contributes a more synth-led, chopped up dub for those among you more familiar with Atom Tm’s trademark vocodered vocals and hyperactive edits treats his Cha Cha Cha- version of the Yellow Magic Classic in funk carioca style.
Peter Rap’s Remix came about by the Senor hearing a bootleg version of ‘The Ketchup Song’ that Peter had made on his Nintendo Gameboy. suitably impressed the Senor brought him onboard to remix ‘Behind The Mask’ we think it rocks like Jamrock and will surely become a Reggaeton classic.
“Where’s the electro?” I hear you cry! Well fear not, how could such a varied remix package leave out one of the millenniums most poignant come back kids. Al Usher who is drafted in on the other twelve to represent and adds some rather nice 80’s tinged arppegiated bass that does the job nicely.
Last but not least fellow Chilean Ricardo Villalobos is lurking in the blue corner representing all things minimal and by George, he’s turned in a corker! 15 minutes of cuts, scrapes, clicks and atmospherics swooshes that led to a rather jolly CBBC-esque vocal encore.