With Remixtasy, Eccodek flips the script on its signature sound, turning a pack of musical alchemists loose on the group's forward thinking blend of dub, funk, tribalism and cinematic electronica. This tastemaker's list of remixers and producers re-imagine tracks from the Canadian global fusion band's first 3 releases: More Africa in Us, Voices Have Eyes and the Juno-nominated Shivaboom.
Remixtasy is a sprawling, 14-track opus moving from dub, funk, techno, reggae, lo-fi electro to Middle-Eastern, Afrobeat, Rockers, Asian Massive and beyond.
Trailblazers like Transglobal Underground, Six Degrees' Jef Stott, Dubmatix, EarthRise SoundSystem, Real World's Syriana and Adham Shaikh rub shoulders with fresh sounds from Sub Swara's Sharmaji, Four80East, Delhi 2 Dublin's Tarun Nayar and Rise Ashen.
Eccodek mainman Andrew McPherson even works up 2 radical redubs from the first album, More Africa in Us - an Afrobeat throwdown and a sensuous steppers dub odyssey.
Over a 10 year career, Eccodek has amassed an impressive list of achievements - a 2009 Juno (Canada's equivalent of the Grammy Awards) nomination, 2 Canadian Music Awards (Best World Group), performed in London, England's Trafalgar Square before 5,000 people, appeared on Buddha Bar 9, hit #2 on CMJ's New World Chart and represented Canada in National Geographic's GeoRemix project, joining Karsh Kale, Bombay Dub Orchestra, Nortec Collective and Antibalas. Eccodek has collaborated with artists including Vieux Farka Touré, Transglobal Underground, Delhi 2 Dublin, EarthRise SoundSystem, Deva Premal and Turkey's Burhan Ocal.
With Remixtasy, the band the Boston Globe and ABC News has compared to Thievery Corporation, Gaudi and beyond, steps confidently back onto the world stage, entrusting its global dub esthetic to the experienced hands of this diverse cast of remix luminaries. Collectively, they take Eccodek's music in fascinatingly disparate directions, all pointing "forward."
"Sublime voices are all masterfully woven into the mix." - Toronto Sun
"Eccodek's music has only grown deeper and more lovely." - Bob Duskis (Six Degrees Records)
“Eccodek reveals the face of global music.” - Global Rhythm
“An Afrodub groovefest.” - CMJ Weekly
“Eccodek's music is completely organic. Beats move with a loose energy and enhance the indigenous
flavors of the African and Asian vocalists." -
Popmatters.com
“Andrew McPherson's groove collective gets even more diverse, if that's possible.” -
ABCnews.com
“Eccodek's music is pure joy and fun sometimes infused with an almost mystical sense of wonder.” - All
Music Guide
"Magnetic grooves, percolating beats and bone rattling bass." - Ottawa Xpress