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Radiohead finish their summer of The King of Limbs remix 12-inches
Radiohead have put the seventh and last of their The King of Limbs remix 12-inches up to stream on Dead Air Space, the band's blog: Jamie xx's rework of “Bloom”, Anstam's “Separator” and SBTRKT's “Lotus Flower”. It is in the shops on Monday 26 September. The 19 remixes of the series come out together on a double CD on 10 October, a day later in the US.
The series was announced on 6 June, as limited 12-inches on XL and Ticker Tape, the band's own imprint, sold in independent record shops and at radiohead.com, with every remix also out as a download. Record one went up on 1 July, Caribou's “Little By Little” on one side and “Lotus Flower” by Jacques Greene, a Montreal producer, on the other.
More 12” remixes will be released every couple of weeks over the summer until we run out of remixes... or summer.
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the band wrote that day. Each record after it was posted on a Friday, 14 days after the one before, and was due in the shops the Monday after.
“Bloom” is the song remixed most, five times in all: twice by Mark Pritchard (once under his Harmonic 313 name), then by Blawan, Objekt and Jamie xx, whose version runs only a little over two minutes. “Morning Mr Magpie” turned up on two records in a row, from Nathan Fake and then from Pearson Sound as “Scavenger”, before Modeselektor renamed it “Good Evening Mrs Magpie” on record six.
Thom Yorke had given Lone's “Feral” an early outing at Glastonbury in June, DJing with Nigel Godrich until dawn in a crashed aeroplane fuselage; his playlist on Dead Air Space credits it to “errr us and lone”. Thriller, behind the “Houseghost” remix of “Give Up The Ghost”, is thought to be the producer Actress, who by 1 July seemed to have confirmed on Twitter that he had made one for the series. Altrice's remix is of “TKOL”, a title that is not on the album.
Record four's download went out on 15 August, but its vinyl was delayed. Digital Spy put the delay down to the fire at the Sony DADC warehouse in Enfield, burned on 8 August during the London riots; the building was the main distribution centre of PIAS, an independent distributor, and millions of records and discs were lost in it.
Flying Lotus is not among the 19, though many expected him after he said in May that Radiohead had asked him to remix the record. It's difficult to work with, because the pieces that they gave me, there's no real a cappella. It's like piano and voice at the same time.
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Today's post thanks Jamie xx, Anstam and SBTRKT, and says all seven records stay on sale at the band's shop until they run out. That's the lot then.
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The seven 12-inches
| # | Remixes | Posted | In shops |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caribou, “Little By Little”; Jacques Greene, “Lotus Flower” | 1 July | 4 July (5 July, US and Canada) |
| 2 | Nathan Fake, “Morning Mr Magpie”; Mark Pritchard, “Bloom” (two mixes, one as Harmonic 313) | 15 July | 18 July (2 August, US and Canada) |
| 3 | Lone, “Feral”; Pearson Sound, “Morning Mr Magpie” (Scavenger); Four Tet, “Separator” | 29 July | 1 August (9 August, US and Canada) |
| 4 | Thriller, “Give Up The Ghost” (Houseghost); Illum Sphere, “Codex”; Shed, “Little By Little” | 12 August | 15 August, download; vinyl delayed |
| 5 | Brokenchord, “Give Up The Ghost”; Altrice, “TKOL”; Blawan, “Bloom” | 26 August | 29 August |
| 6 | Modeselektor, “Good Evening Mrs Magpie”; Objekt, “Bloom” | 9 September | 12 September |
| 7 | Jamie xx, “Bloom” (rework); Anstam, “Separator”; SBTRKT, “Lotus Flower” | 23 September | 26 September |
from the record
Lotus Flower · The promo, directed by Garth Jennings: Thom Yorke dancing, in one room.· Radioheadwatch on youtube →