Everyone over the age of 12 knows that tales by the Brothers Grimm are far more terrifying than the toned down version we tell our kids before bed. But Hanzel and Gretel burning the witch alive and Cinderella instructed to cut off their toes aren't the only unnerving elements from Germanic tradition. Die Wilde Jagd (The Wild Hunt) is more than the name of the collaboration between Dusseldorf producer Ralf Beck and Berliner Sebastian Lee Phillips. It's the traditional German folk story about a pack of ghost hunters who ride through the sky in the days after Christmas, symbolizing the coming of war and catastrophe.So it makes sense that the duo would turn to Parisian beat-killer Ivan Smagghe for a remix of their latest, "Wah Wah Wallenstein," off their new Morgenrot EP on Bureau-b. Smagghe doubles down on the robotnik rhythms that Die Wilde Jagd pick up from their Dusseldorf forefathers (Kraftwek, Neu!) and extending it to a taunt eight-minute caterpillar of a remix, with miniature clinks and clonks that keep moving forward while analog synth noises swell and fade and swell repeatedly.Check out the premiere of the remix and see for yourself if it doesn't sound live a maiden being slowly eaten alive by the gears of a particularly nasty cuckoo clock.
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