If you aren't familiar with Current 93, specifically the solemn and bizarre nature of their apocalyptic folk music I don't know how to convey how weird the idea of someone doing a hot electro remix of one of their tracks is. Of course, who better to take the title track from c93's excellent 2006 album Black Ships ate the Sky and turn it into a hot dancefloor mess then ol' Jim Thirlwell, aka Foetus, aka Foetus Interruptues, aka you've got Foetus on your breath, aka Scraping Foetus off the Wheel, aka about a million other variations of the word "foetus". Not content to be producing his own tunes as well as soundtracking the best show on TV (*pssst* it's The Venture Brothers), apparently ol' JG took some time out of his busy schedule to throw together a Current 93 remix 12" with those wacky kids in Matmos entitled Black Ships Heat the Dancefloor. It's a pretty sweet mix, with nice use of middle eastern instrumentation, a thumpin electro beat and David Tibet's notoriously love 'em or hate 'em vocals vocodered up hella robotical style. Check the video out, interpretive dance and Tibet looking particularly eurotrashy.
Current 93 - Black Ships ate the Sky (JG Thirlwell mix)
And for a standard of comparison, the original track:
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