V/a / Horizon Line / Ghostly By Night

Ghostly International

Ghostly International has spent its first decade in constant motion, building a catalog of category-defying music that pushes forever forward, forging new stylistic connections and breaking new artistic ground at every juncture. The Horizon Line / Ghostly By Night double-disc compilation is a state-of-the-label address featuring ten remixes and reinterpretations of Ghostly classics and ten new, forthcoming, and unreleased songs. Disc one, Horizon Line, shines a spotlight on the greater Ghostly family with remixes and covers of ten Ghostly classics. LUSINE’s rerub of School of Seven Bellsʼ “Half Asleep” starts things off with a bang, stripping the dense original down to its vocals and drum machine, but keeping the dreamy momentum. From there, Horizon Line takes off, flying from SOLVENT’s analog-tinged remix of Deastroʼs “Kurgan Wave Number One” to MADLIB’s grainy take on Dabryeʼs “Air (feat. Doom)”. The compilation closes, fittingly, with an oldie but goodie: Dykehouse’s feedback-laced creeper “When You Come”, turned into a boppy electro-pop number by the reclusive THE RUSSIAN FUTURISTS. Disc two, evocatively titled Ghostly By Night, takes a peek at the labelʼs future with ten tracks of new and unreleased material: MATTHEW DEAR previews his new direction on the oil-slick dada funk of “Rally Rasser Good” and DEASTRO does the same on the chanting, echo-drenched “Mowgli the Lynx”; SHIRGETO’s “Sky of the Revolution” comes off like the cooing child of Aphex Twinʼs “Windowlicker”; and JUSTIN K. BROADRICK (JESU) debuts his PALE SKETCHER alias, offering the lumbering ambient crunch of “Plans That Fade (Faded Dub)”. (STREET DATE - 5/11/2010)

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