By the Zonagirante.com Team @spinning zone
Normally, when musical projects have been around for a while, they stagnate in their sound, and their followers expect nothing more from them except to hear yesterday's music without major variations and today's music without any changes. Luckily, there are bands that aim to accompany the maturity of their work with a desire for renewal., So, instead of sounding "old," they can align their recordings with the realities of contemporary times. That's what's happening with the Colombian group. Altered States, after 32 years since its founding.
That need to sound different from what their most successful albums and songs presented a couple of decades (or more) ago was surely due to their internal restructuring, the departure of one of the founding members, responsible for a good part of the compositions, and the subsequent addition of new members. Today, Estados Alterados is a quartet made up of Ricky, Elvis, Natalia, and Felipe, the lineup with which they released their album in 2018. Lumisphere. Although it's easy to say that they always, from their origins, presented themselves as an "electronic sound" band, with local hits like The veil, Move y March Fever, His latest production reflects a very interesting evolution in the creation of textures, preserving the pop essence, but approaching its resonance with more rebellion and experimentation. Five years later, they have reconnected with the public with a compilation of remixes., produced by producers of United States, Spain, France, Chile, Mexico, Argentina and, of course, Colombia, on a double vinyl album called Remixphera (11 transnational co-missions).
Remixphera It's a fun, varied, and daring publication., which reinterprets 6 of the eleven tracks from the original album, And although the listener may not be familiar with the original material from which the remixes are based, they can certainly enjoy the experience of discovering it through the visual versions available on his official channel. Seven tracks are already available on YouTube., equal number of tunes on digital sound platforms. Of what we could hear, our favorite version is the one made by Ana Gartner, a resident DJ in the city of Medellín, who remixed the song Fear. Likewise, we recommend listening to the work of Deraout (Colombia), Rail + AndyVica (United States/Colombia), Wonder B (Colombia), De La Rivera (Argentina) , Daniel Klauser (Chili), Brain + Sebass (Colombia), Bobber Marco (Spain), Yard of Blondes (France / United States), Parallel Universe (Colombia) and Nina Hologram (Mexico).
With this compilation, Estados Alterados manages to keep up with the times, and, with their characteristic elegance, They are preparing for what the future holds.
To purchase the album in physical format, please visit https://estadosalterados.net/collections/all/products/remixphera-vinilo.