Darsombra - Nymphaea CDr / Digital Download

"Nymphaea" has been a staple of the darsombra set for 2+ years. Always a crowd favorite, the track was only released on the "untitled" 55 artist, 3CD compilation that PG co-curated in 2007. Now, darsombra has decided to retire the song from the live set. In lieu of a memorial, Public Guilt asked 12 remixers to have a crack at reinterpreting the track. What better way to lay something to rest than to rip it apart and let other people put it back together? From children's toys-based pop songs to blissed-out ambience, throbbing electronica to vocal interpretations sung in Latin, the resulting tracks on Nymphaea are an eclectic and varied bunch.

This limited release for PG is a one time pressing of 250 copies.

"The vocal and toy piano rendition by London’s Max Bondi & Bleeding Heart and the R&B funeral dirge by New York’s Ala Muerte are stunning enough to stand alone, and some of the landscapes and textures on “Nymphaea” succeed in making Daniloski’s earthy proto-pop sound positively ghostly" -Foxy Digitalis

"These interpretations run the gamut from strange drone-pop numbers littered with the sounds of children's toys, to pulsating dronescapes with an amazing soulful female voice singing in Latin, massive slabs of blown-out ambient sludge, guitar-heavy riffscapes, and minimalist deconstructions of the original track's skeletal form, each track extrapolating on Nymphaea's throbbing bass and vaguely Middle Eastern sounding guitar lines. Pretty damn great." -Crucial Blast Webstore

"Leave it to Public Guilt to come up with an interesting spin on the remix record... All of the remixes are good, though -- no small feat for a remix compilation of this size -- and there's a sufficient level of variety to keep things interesting from one track to the next, not to mention some really devolved approaches to sound that will contaminate your ears and your mind. " -Dead Angel

"I would normally avoid a remix project with all possible dispatch, but here these 13 different versions (apparently) of the same song by Darsombra are given utterly radical remakes. The essentially hypnotic trancey core of the song is repeated and driven home with a multiplication factor of 13, resulting in an intense listen. A fine release." -The Sound Projector

"It's pretty fascinating to hear this single song morph from track to track, 'cause they're all very different, with each remixer definitely making it their own. -Aquarius Records

1. nymphaea by darsombra
2. Nymphaea (Hyena Amp mix) by Max Bondi & Bleeding Heart Narrative (MP3)
3. Nymphaea (True Love Never Dies remix) by Pulsoc
4. Dotonbori Neonlights by The Guilty Connector
5. nymphaea caerulea by Ala Muerte
6. Nymphaea (Escape from Perfekt Teeth remix) by Perfekt Teeth
7. All is All by Magicicada
8. yeah-Namp by Strotter Inst.
9. A Fist Full Of Dust Pointing Fingers At My Chest by Destructo Swarmbots
10. Nymphaea (Séance remix) by Blood Fountains
11. Nymphaea (remix) by Decimation Blvd. and Darla Hood (MP3)
12. Nymphaea (The Drugs Won the Drug War mix) by The Heirs of Rockefeller
13. Nymphaea (Ampla variety) by le knell
PG Website Exclusive: Nymphaea (remix) by Jon Smulyan (MP3)

Darsombra is Brian Daniloski

Release date: October 7, 2008

Artwork: Chase Middaugh

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