THE GHOSTLY REMIXES - BULLION MIX by OSBORNE

Well over a year after the release of Osborne's self-titled album on Spectral Sound, this very limited remix EP follows. Osborne: The Ghostly Remixes opens with Bullion's rerub of the appropriately titled “Afrika.” The UK producer replaces the track's mesh of African-percussion samples with a cocky electro-soul strut and an earworm of a bassline—the results still reek of a psychedelic revolution, but its locale is decidedly American. Bogdan Raczynski's remix of “Ruling” is a real curveball, as the Rephlex acolyte turns the original's warm Chicago trappings into a cascade of cubist dots and lines, lowering the track's iconic vocal sample to a disturbing basso profundo. Werk Discs' Lukid transforms “There” from a dreamy New Order nod into a buzzing, anxious slice of instrumental hip-hop. The vinyl edition features an exclusive Lukid remix of the acid-washed “Junk Food,” here re-imagined as the soundtrack for a seedy robot dive bar. TIP!