Description
The Automatics Group’s dance-pop deconstruction, ‘Summer Mix’ is one of the uncanniest computer music releases of this decade – first issued as a limited CD edition by Entr’acte in 2011. In the time since then it’s quietly become a bit of an iconic reflection for a post-rave generation, presenting a non-trivial nostalgia trip that somehow sounds like a digitally diffused, skeletal take on Gas, Basic Channel or Ross 154. It was created by applying a mathematical process known as a discrete Fourier transform upon a number of late ’90s and ’00s dance anthems, effectively sieving their contents for all its time data and discarding this half of the info, leaving behind the frequencies and noise from the original recordings.
