Birds Of Paradise Remixes and Vinyl Repress

Vinyl Repress, Sean Johnston (A Love From Outer Space), Ruf Dug, Los Pulpitos, Orion Agassi remix Birds Of Paradise

I’m generally not too fussed about remixes: I enjoy making them myself, but never felt a massive urge to hear another producers take on my work. However, as A State Of Flo is a solo operation, I thought that pulling in a few favours to get some remixes would be a good way to build bridges with adjacent producers and hopefully be a way of bringing some if their audiences into my little ecosystem. This package came together quite quickly and I’m pleased with the results. Mostly they are swaps, so look out for my remixes of Los Pulpitos and Orion Agassi…

First up, Sean Johnston is a DJ I’ve admired for a while and his productions as Hardway Bros are always work checking. I suspect he’s best know for sailing the A Love From Outer Space ship solo, post-Andrew Weatherall (RIP), and looks like he’s doing an excellent job of maintaining its core ethos.

I noticed Sean being a fan of my work a couple of years ago. Praise Him was one of his tunes of the 2024, and he’s been known to play Green City and others out at A Love From Outer Space.

His remix of Ceibo is definitely a tune I could hear on the ALFOS dancefloor - deep, chuggy, acidy… the type of track you want to hear whilst lost amongst an over zealous smoke machine in the middle of the dancefloor.

Ruf Dug and I must be about the same age, and I’ve always admired his irreverent style. There is some affinity between the slightly maturer clubbing scenes of Glasgow and Manchester that I guess we both come from, and we’ve crossed paths several times over the years.

His remix is typically wonky, an original take that comes across as a fun analogue studio jam, with many ideas thrown into the mix but maintaining a flow and potency for the dancefloor.

It’s been quite amusing that he keeps popping up on my DJ promo mailer, championing his own work! ‘Ruf Dug is a g’ indeed!

Los Pulpitos is a new group created by Dirk Leyers (ex-Closer Musik w/ Matias Aguayo and Africaine 808) and Rafael from Dengue Dengue Dengue. Back in my Highlife days, we worked with Africaine 808 a fair bit, swapping remixes and guest appearances in Berlin and Glasgow.

I always check everything Dengue Dengue Dengue put out, their production is superlative and bring a credible punch to the slow-mo south american modern-cumbia sound.

Los Pulpitos sound what you might expect - dark, dubby and made-for-the-club, with interesting rhythms that you can’t necessary place in any one genre. Check out their forthcoming album on Crammed Discs.

Orion Agassi is from Bilbao and we were introduced to each other by Huntleys and Palmers Andrew Thomson, who has this uncanny knack of finding incredible tunes from otherwise unknown producers. Agassi’s first Ep was exactly that, and remains one of my most played collection of dancefloor songs in the past few years. And check out his recent 5 year label compilation, which I did this remix for:

Agassi reached out to me when I started A State Of Flo and he’s been mastering most of the records the label has put out. He’s super prolific: I asked him to do a remix one evening and by 4am the next day it was done!

These remixes accompany a repress of the Birds Of Paradise album. We sold the first pressing of 300 copies fairly quickly, so hoping the next press of 200 will go too.

I have 50 up for sale exclusively on Bandcamp right now, before they go into the shops and streaming services next week.

Grab yours here:

NB. Reminder that 10% of all purchases is donated to Earth Percent.

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