Open Air

If you’ve been lucky enough to hear The xx‘s bewitching debut album or the killer mix they made for Fact then you’ll know they are a band who understand what Debussy meant about music being the space between the notes. But here is Micachu to ruin all that. Her mischievous mixup bulldozes through their elemental expanses with a claustrophobic clatter, replacing infinite space with Brobdingnagian bass.

The xx – Basic Space (M.A.T.H.E.S. Remix) [mp3]

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