The new Logickal single, Sugarknife, is out now on Discrepancy/dPulse-America... and a fine slice of bytes it is.

When my comrade-in-noise Jeremy Dickens asked me for a Blue Deceiver remix of Sugarknife for this release, I instantly said yes. If you check out his work as Logickal on last.fm, you'll hear why: organic, layered, improvisational electronica crafted into deft tracks of dark surprise, one after another. He cites Coil, Peter Gabriel, the Subconscious triad of Skinny Puppy/Doubting Thomas/Download and many others as influences, all of whom form a similar foundation for me as an artist. We speak in related tongues.

I created a warped ambient reconstruction of Sugarknife, using only sounds found in the original material. Trust me, none remained the same... but they did all originate in Jeremy's source tracks. I re-pitched and re-manifested the strings as a new melody, gritched out the island breeze blowing through the steel drums and bells until Dr. Moreau expressed immense pride, pulled sunken vocals from the wreckage of their backing oblivion and re-animated them as honey-dripping beat thugs. Lastly, and of course, I stepped into my time machine and did the final mix way back in 00500 B.C.E.

Listen to previews and download Logickal's original mix of Sugarknife, my Blue Deceiver Reconstruction, Maurice Syntax's Sweet Young Thinker Remix and the single's four other excellent cuts at:

Beatport

Napster

Juno

digiRAMA

Dreamhost FilesForever, 320kbps DRM-free mp3s

ITunes

Update: Jeremy put together a Sugarknife Maxi-Micro Mix as a podcast. All three versions of Sugarknife plus Logickal-related acts Harmaline and 3kStatic in a 26.5 minute continuous mix.

FlightDynamics Podcast 37
One. Sick. Mix. (26.35, 44.1KHz, 211kbps VBR, 40.6MB)

Logickal - Sugarknife Maxi-Micro Mix
(Original, Blue Deceiver Reconstruction, Sweet Young Thinker)
Harmaline - Live @ Nophest 4.20 Atlanta Excerpts
3kStatic - Live @ Gigi Philadelphia Excerpts
Logickal - Students Fear The Three Cs