I’ve been really getting into Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve recently.

As far as I can tell, there are two angles to their music. First off, there’s their remixing of today’s tunes, epitomised by the amazing work they did on Midlake’s “Roscoe”:

Midlake - Roscoe (Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve Remix) (via World’s Fair News)

That was my gateway tune — to both Midlake and BTWS. It takes the original (an awesome song in its own right, more on this at some stage), and mellows it out nicely, with a pretty light touch. Their work on Findlay Brown’s “Losing the Will to Survive” is similar:

Findlay Brown - Losing the Will to Survive

It’s hard to put a finger on what to call the style. It’s not full-on psychedelic rock; it’s a little more folky, really, with some psych tinges. I dunno; whatever, it sounds great to me.

Then there’s the edits of much more out-there classic psychedelic and krautrock tunes on their limited-edition releases, such as “Dig It” and “A Path Through The Forest” (pick up mp3’s here). The latter, I think, is a re-edit of The Factory’s classic psych tune which appears on Nuggets II:

The Factory - A Path Through The Forest

There’s also a cover of Neu!’s uber-classic Hallogallo floating about, titled “I Swim Around”.

Anyway, these tunes — remixes of old and new — are all top of my playlist right now, and are sending me back to Nuggets (again). Bet their set went down a storm at Glasto ;)

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