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Anyone who’s been to one of superproducer Jon Brion’s residency performances at the Largo in L.A. (sadly, this does not include me) knows the man to be an encyclopedic, multi-instrumental compendium of pop music, able to recreate and revise nearly any moment in rock with his bare hands and a loop pedal or ten. This is the kind of man you get to do a remix CD. Enter of Montreal, who’ve commissioned Jon to lend his recreating, revising, superproducing digits to some Skeletal Lamping songs. As if they didn’t fold over and remix themselves enough. As a first course try out the Brion take on the slinky, littany-of-sex-type-things track “Gallery Piece,” which retains its funk, but gets an unexpected rinse of squeaky synths and 8-bit chirps. It’s Nintendo sex.

The Jon Brion Remixes album will include this track, two JB versions of the rapturous “An Eluardian Instance,” a longer version of this “Gallery Piece” remix, and an instrumental version to boot. It comes out 1/6 digitally and 1/27 on CD/LP via Polyvinyl.

And speaking of “An Eluardian Instance,” of Montreal’s making a stop at the Ed Sullivan Theatre to do Letterman on 12/18, armed with that song. That pic is from oM’s Roseland Ballroom show, and it’s worth scrolling through that spread.

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Of Montreal – An Eluardian Instance (Jon Brion Remixes)
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Barnes started Of Montreal back in the ’90s in a most un-Canadian place ... greatly focused the sound with the help of cinematically minded producer Jon Brion. Consider the new disk the revenge of whatever Barnes repressed then.
Comments (5)
  1. Andrew  |   Posted on Nov 17th, 2008

    Different but not really better or worse.

  2. I read the words ‘Jon’ and ‘Brion’, causing me to twitch slightly before clicking the shit out of the link to this thread repeatedly until it loaded.

  3. Day man
    Fighter of the Night man
    Champion of the sun
    You?re a master of karate and friendship?for everyone
    Day man, day man
    Uhh ahhahh
    Fighter of the Night man
    Uhh ahhahh
    Champion of the sun
    Uhh ahhahh
    Master of karate and friendship?for everyone
    Day man, day man
    Uhh ahhahh
    Fighter of the Night man
    Champion of the sun

  4. Nice mix. If given the chance, I would love editing out the cumming 200 times a night….it’s gets borderline “Non-Dairy Creamer.”

  5. Although quite some time, I just can’t help but comment on the way singers do their thing. I prefer doing the thing “clean” or shall we spic and span and wholesome.

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