Modus Pitch

RePolyism is a track-by-track reinterpretation of Friedrich Fritz Brückners 2022 debut solo album as Modus Pitch, Polyism, through artists affiliated with Altin Village & Mine and/or former collaborators of the prolific Leipzig-based musician and producer. Each track from Polyism has been remixed or reworked by different artists such as Modeselektor, Angel Bat Dawid, Maya Shenfield or Mouse on Mars member and HJirok producer Andi Toma, but the album—mastered by Tim Roth a.k.a. Sin Maldita and released as a strictly limited vinyl LP with reimagined artwork by Carmen Orschinski—follows the original records tracklist. This makes RePolyism a veritable musical prism, refracting the creativity inherent to Brückners genre-transcending original works through other peoples artistic lenses to create an even more colourful end result.

First off are the Gebrüder Teichmann with their take on opener Drive, carefully adding more depth and uncanny sounds to the jazzy, drum-focused piece. Unsurprisingly, Modeselektor go a lot further with their remix Rainbow, turning the two-minute track into a dubstep-adjacent banger with infectious synth work that is twice as long and comes with a mind-melting breakdown. With their take on Hilltop Jacuzzi, Peaking Lights turn the blissful original into a piece that calls to mind experiments at the intersection of dub, ambient, and industrial music in the mid-1990s. Cloud Management radically transform the eerie Compound Eye Dialogue into a rhythmically charged mid-tempo post-krautrock epic, while the Seekers Internationals Jelly Roll Dub of Gelée Royale uses the originals lush textures to turn up the intensity even further.

On the flipside, Andi Thoma gives the intricate synth pop/breakcore fusion of Suspender a similarly dubwise treatment before venturing into gqom territory, pulling it out of the leftfield and straight onto the dancefloor—peak-time use only. Maya Shenfeld then brings her trademark modular synth work to Outer Veil, accentuating the focus on Hendrik Otrembas uncanny spoken word performance even further. This sets the mood perfectly for vocal experimentalist Agnese Menguzzato working her singular magic. Under her hands and with her voice, the multi-layered ambient soundscapes of Lava Fans become even larger-than-life-like than before. When Angel Bat Dawid takes the menacing drones of Iridescent Path as a template for a trap-inspired beat over which she lets loose on the clarinet, that serves as both the ultimate counterpoint and perfect coda to RePolyism.

These nine reinterpretations of the highly diverse source material underline Brückners singular approach to music-making while also emphasising their makers idiosyncratic talents. This makes RePolyism more than simply a remix album—its a polylogue between visionary minds.

• 1 Drive (Gebruder Teichmann - Remix)
• 2 Rainbow (Modeselektor - Remix)
• 3 Hill Top Jaccuzi (Peaking Lights - Remix)
• 4 Compound Eye Dialogue (Cloud Management - Remix)
• 5 Gelee Royale - Jelly Roll Dub (Seekers International - Remix)
• 6 Suspender (Andi Toma - Remix)
• 7 Outer Veil (Maya Shenfeld - Remix)
• 8 Lava Fans _ Smack (Agnese Menguzzato - Rework)
• 9 Iridescent Path _ Afrosonification (Angel Bat Dawid - Rework)