DJ Monchan - Silent Dub / Finally [Hot Biscuit Recordings]

Hot Biscuit Recordings have spent the last few years releasing killer re-edit EPs, mostly from veteran talents such as Rahaan and the Idjut Boys. For this 12”, they have recruited another re-edit veteran: Brooklyn-based Japanese-American producer (and East Village Edits head) DJ Monchan. As expected, there’s a good dose of heavily orchestrated disco here—on the B-side, Finally, which apparently extends and re-orders Steve Bendner’s 1977 version of The Final Thing—but it’s the A-side, Silent Dub, that hits hardest. On it, the Dailysession Records founder turns his attention to a minimal, spacey synth-pop track from (we believe) the 80s, reinventing it as a delicious, dubby deep house track, full of psychedelic effects, echoed vocal snippets, and delay-laden percussive elements.