Lifeline (36 floors mix)
After Duncan Patterson moved on from Anathema and later Antimatter, he formed a band called “Alternative 4”, a spiritual continuation of the Anathema album of the same name he mostly wrote. Since that album meant a lot to me in my teenage years, I was thrilled to be involved in the “Lifeline” remix.
You can recognize a good song by the fact that other artists want to cover it. They need to have part in a piece of art that is particularly close to their hearts. The song covers I value the most are not simple renderings of the same thing by different people. They are rather complete redesigns and reinterpretations.
This resonates well with a belief of mine that art is only ever created by the observer. The listener creates meaning, builds additional context, connects the dots in new ways. My ambition is to create my remixes from the perspective of the observer, as reimaginations of original tracks, influenced by my interpretation. By producing a song that is clearly inspired yet independent, recognizable yet new, ambiguous yet cohesive, I’m completing the picture.
The target audience of my reworks are actually the authors of the original pieces. I am trying to show them how I see their work. Parts of it will be different and distant from the original. This is my own artistic freedom. Yet, other parts will be left alone, consistent with the original song. These are the parts I found most striking and important about that track.