Boris - Message/Floor Shaker 12" (2008)
Particularly desirable item from Boris, out -of-print, limited (1000 copies) 12" with remixes of two tracks from other releases. Unfortunately the cover got a little damaged somehow, it's crushed a bit on one edge. Vinyl is in excellent condition, though.
Here's a description from Aquarius Records: "...two songs, both remixed versions of songs from other releases. One a super effected revamped version of “Message” the opening track from the Japanese version of Smile, which itself is a remixed version of “Statement” from the Southern Lord 7” and the US version of Smile. Confused yet? Welcome to Boris country. So the remixed “Message” takes the original, and drenches it in FX, strips much of the guitar away, leaving just that relentless tribal rhythm, and then wrapped all around it, various little sonic flourishes, drones, and shimmers, little melodic tangles, long drawn out high end streaks, whirs and little stuttery strums, and the original's “woo hoo” vocals. Super minimal and trancey and blissed out. A bit like Boris filtered though later Boredoms. But the real attraction is the remix of “Floor Shaker”, the original was exclusive to the now out of print Southern Lord 7”, but here the song is totally pulled apart and twisted into new shapes. At first, the vibe sounds really retro, skittery high hats, the vocals all by their lonesome, then some disco-y beats and some super fuzzy synths. Very new wave sounding. On the verge of being cheesy, but paired up with the plaintive almost emo vocals, the result is actually pretty cool. But as the track progresses, it gets weirder and weirder, the synths more skeletal and damaged sounding, the beat a simple throbbing pulse, the whole thing doused in weird feedback and electronic squelches, high end chirps, and a cool looped vocal snippet, the vibe much more M83, a sort of washed out sun dappled overdriven shoegaze-y electro bliss out, shades of Health, Crystal Castles, Justice, and that whole new wave of modern synthsoaked dirty disco electropop, all wrapped around little bits of fuzzy blown out Boris."