Remixes

2007 has been a busy year for Bracken. Firstly we had their debut LP We Know About the Need, a hyperactive exploration into skewed songwriting, avant drone and glitchy sample experiments presented to Anticon Records by Chris Adams, founder member of Leeds, UK's experimentalists Hood. Following hot on it's heels was a sketchbook of so-far-off-the-dial-they've-fallen-off-the-map ideas which ultimately made up the companion LP Eno About the Need. And finally we come to the obligatory remix CD. Given that We Know About the Need was forged from an unsteady melting pot of cut-up sounds, decaying tape loops, found sounds and the often overlooked but classic 'playing of instruments' tactic, it seemed wholly appropriate that a motley crew of associates/heroes of bracken should be given the opportunity to 'get the bits from the songs and put them in a different order.'