At The Drive-In – “One Armed Scissor (The Field Remix)”
The Field lends his minimalist hand to this rendition of At The Drive-In’s hit “One Armed Scissor.” While the original is one of the best ways to open an album — intense immediacy, a battle cry for the triptych of urgency that kicks off Relationship Of Command — the Field’s subversion of it into a muted version of itself with sporadic fairy-dust synths and stripped-down percussion is just another way to introduce what’s to come: a slow burn that builds on itself over the course of nine minutes. The continuously added layers may never explode into ATDI bombast, but it’s an appropriately dark minimalist techno take on their work. Check it out below.
Relationship Of Command will be reissued in conjunction with Record Store Day on 4/20 via TK. The “One Armed Scissor” 12″ is out 5/13 on Transgressive.