Album Review: Pitch Black, Rarities and Remixes

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What better way to document 15 years as one of New Zealand's most dependable and pioneering electronic acts than with an album of their best (not to mention diverse) remixes, and some Pitch Black tunes you may not have heard before.

There's everything from the duo's haunting dub-meets-taonga puoro remix of Richard Nunns and Hirini Melbourne's Te Po, to its bubbling and fizzing rework of Salmonella Dub's For the Love Of It from 1999, and then right back to where it all began in 1996 with the simmering and agitating industrial dub of I'm A Wanderer, which is more akin to Mike Hodgson's earlier projects as Tinnitus and Projector Mix than the lush and hallucinatory sound that Pitch Black would develop.

What Rarities & Remixes does brilliantly is showcase Pitch Black's journey into dub, dance, and beyond.

Stars: 4/5
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- TimeOut