The Remix is agent provocateur of Existential thought. A depressingly expressive seductive art. Bedfellow of ennui whose progeny both propose and endorse the view that there is nothing truly original – that we only rework or re-present, in some way, what has gone before. ‘Creativity’ is found in making these ‘old’ things seem ‘new’ and ‘fresh’. However out of this dilemma things of beauty emerge, and what cannot be refuted is the newness and freshness that Anders Trentemoller bring to ‘his’ ‘creations’.

Trentemoller has a particular sound signature, which coincidentally is the name of the label imprint of the seminal artist/ remixer Theo Parrish. Trentemoller seems to have developed a sonic statement based on the frisson that Parrish’s ‘Solitary Flight’ evokes. A gentle, airy, delicate melodic refrain, yet broody, edgy and dissonant all at the same time.

This double album is remarkably cogent despite the interventions being based on the works of others or artists interpreting Trentemoller. It feels natural and coherent, like there is a unifying concept and that we are being told something about the artist and the way he sees things. What that might be is elusive, but the provocations are real.

It is a sign of a good remix that upon hearing this versioning one becomes curious to know the source material – remix as conduit to discovery. I was only familiar with the Franz Ferdinand and Depeche Mode originals but now I want to know about The Do’s Too Insistent’, Modeselektor’s ‘White Flash’ and Efterklang’s ‘Raincoats’. Great remixes seduces one into obliviousness, into not caring about provenance, and this album has those too…

Detroit House music resides in the annals of antiquity but this sound signature feels like that music’s logical progression, which is coincidentally the label imprint of LTJ Bukem a progenitor of Drum and Bass, whose influence resonates throughout the world of electronic music. Dance music need not be shallow, ephemeral or disposable. Trentemoller attempts to make timeless interpretations and succeeds. Perhaps his music will resonate through our sonic landscapes, the echoes of which will mellifluously drown the dialectic dilemma of the remix.