ultramarine: passwords

Real Soon brings together a trio of heavyweight practitioners in the fine art of house music to remix tracks from Ultramarine's critically-acclaimed album This Time Last Year. The Kai Alce and Hercules & Love Affair mixes share a similar approach; raw, jacking and dancefloor-friendly. Kai gives "Eye Contact" a Chicago-flavored jazz twist with a bass line reminiscent of Glenn Underground and fleeting, high-register piano. On "Passwords," Hercules & Ha-Ze Factory layer rhythm and vocal samples from the original track and punch a hole in them with brutal sawtooth basses and bouncing syndrums. Juju & Jordash reduce the downtempo "Decoy Point" to a warm, pulsing mantra.