San Francisco live electronic duo Host Bodies return with Daily Apparatus: 10 Year Remixes, a new collection that revisits their 2016 album through the perspectives of ten artists from the Bay Area and Los Angeles. The thirteen-track release brings together a broad range of electronic styles while highlighting the creative community that has developed around the duo. Rather than simply reproducing the original material, the project presents new interpretations shaped by the individual approaches of each contributing artist.
The collection features remixes from Thoma, Chroma Sea, Mark Farry, Soul Glitch, Vice Reine, Jaya Leigh, Shipwreck Detective, Idea Unsound, TRADEMARX and Brushed Evergreen. Their contributions span melodic house, cinematic techno, Balearic dance, downtempo, hip-hop, synth-pop and indie electronic music, with several tracks moving into territory far removed from the sound of the original album. The project also includes three new interpretations from Host Bodies founders James Collector and Nick Hess, who perform under the aliases Swoop and Shred.
Among the featured remixes is Soul Glitch’s reworking of ‘On A Roll’. The solo project of saxophonist and artistic technologist Nicholas Hasty, Soul Glitch reshapes the track around a deeper groove, incorporating saxophone, flute and atmospheric electronic textures. Vice Reine, the San Francisco synth-pop duo of Remi X and E-rich, take ‘Towards’ in a different direction, combining melodic techno with surrealist pop using ideas drawn from an unreleased demo. Chroma Sea transforms ‘City’ into a dreamlike trip-hop track featuring washed-out guitars, bright synthesizers and atmospheric percussion.
Singer and rapper Jaya Leigh also brings a new interpretation to ‘You Are Not Like Them’, adding rhymes, infectious grooves and a distinct vocal presence. The remix marks her streaming debut and is described as one of the collection’s most significant departures from the source material. Bay Area producer Idea Unsound offers another take on ‘City’, building a cinematic production that incorporates elements of dubstep, film scoring, UK bass music and hard techno. The track was constructed from more than fifty individual tracks and a combination of software and hardware instruments.
Daily Apparatus: 10 Year Remixes ultimately documents the continuing relationship between Host Bodies and the wider electronic music community around them. Many of the contributing artists are longtime collaborators, friends and fellow participants in the Bay Area scene, giving the collection the character of an ongoing exchange rather than a conventional anniversary release. As Host Bodies prepare campaigns focused on individual remixes and the artists responsible for them, the project provides a decade-later perspective on music that continues to be reinterpreted and developed by a new generation of collaborators.
