Nicolas Bougaïeff has launched
Higher Up The Spiral, an album of remixes and reworkings of tracks from his latest album,
The Upward Spiral – both out now on Mute.
Higher Up The Spiral features a whole host of names, including Mute labelmate
Chris Liebing,
Dusty Kid, a classically trained techno innovator, British producer
Benjamin Damage,
DIN-ST (aka Frederic Stader), and Reiten label founder
Kosei Fukuda. A full tracklist is below.
The new album’s title track, “Higher Up The Spiral,” takes a slightly different route. Instead of a traditional remix, duo Private Agenda created a completely new composition utilizing the “little open scores” of the original track “The Upward Spiral.” Nicolas uses the “scores” terminology to describe the structure of the tracks on the studio album. While commissioning remixers, Nicolas sent Private Agenda a description of the structural essence of “The Upward Spiral” and they interpreted the score within these parameters, the final track is a remix on a compositional level.
Stream and purchase the
Higher Up The Spiral remix album
here.
Stream and purchase the original studio album –
The Upward Spiral –
here.
MORE ON NICOLAS BOUGAÏEFFOn
The Upward Spiral, Bougaïeff reframes familiar tropes for his own mind-expanding vision of body music. Punishing industrial techno charges the album at surface level with beautiful-meets-bleak energy. But peel back the layers of brash ferocity and there’s a hell of a lot more going on than first meets the ear. The culmination of years of hard work, Bougaïeff grew the album from the seeds of a bespoke composition technique; a carefully thought-out studio experiment in how to bend a love of techno into innovative new shapes.
Across nine metallic misadventures, which Bougaïeff describes as “
little open scores”, he blitzes drum patterns and sharp synthwork into a satisfyingly effective blend. Intricate rhythmic structures lurk beneath the “strawberry jam” of the surface aesthetics. This rhythmic illusion seeps into every crevice of a record that brings a slice of academia to the rave.
The new album continues Bougaïeff’s decades-long love of club music, a love that has compelled him to challenge conventional wisdom, delivering genre-busting Berghain sets that expertly blend French-Canadian hip-hop with Tchaikovsky, moody techno and ambient. Previous releases include the
Cognitive Resonance EP that relaunched the NovaMute imprint in 2017.
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