Banco De Gaia - Kincajou

For the remixes of Banco De Gaia's fabulous tune Kincajou,Toby Marks and Planet Dog,strangely in my opininon,opt for an industrial techno/trance theme which really doesn't do the piece that much justice.
Oliver Leib may be a top D.J/producer but his style doesn't really suit this tune-track one of the four track maxi single.The main voice sample is slowed down early on,almost in a mockery of the original,then later similarly speeded up.Although moody in a factory thump kind of way,this remix doesn't really offer anything particularly awe-inspiring and is fairly detached from the original.There's probably something their for Leib fans but not for those of Banco.If not for the aforementioned adjusted voice sample,we'd be hard-pushed to recognise the original piece-tenuous to say the least.
Track two-here come the norse gods-is a reworking my Toby himself and kicks along at a decent pace with it's crescendo drumbeat hinting at trance and spacey background atmospherics.Better use is made of the voice sample this time-it fits in nicely with the track's other components although it feels a little inbalanced due to the subtle nature of the vocal not really being enhanced by the tough,in-your-face drumbeat.
Ultimately the tune fails to deliver a knockout punch.
Speedy J takes the controls for track three.It's a solid techno remix with plenty of sound effects to keep the listener interested.As a remix it disappoints but holds it's own as an independent tune seeing as,again,we don't hear much of the original save the reworked voice sample which (again)seems out of place here.To me it's a piece that conjures up images of giant,cold storage warehouses-vast and frozen.This directly opposes the warmth of the original.
The original album mix reminds us what Banco is all about:masterful sampling,with layers of subtle sounds,melodies and drumbeats combined to create a blissed-out,sun-kissed ambient techno experience.
Reworkings more in the vein of Heliopolis(City of the Sun Remixes) would have been more appropriate I feel.