Minus the Bear
Interpretaciones Del Oso (Suicide Squeeze)
By Emily Becker
Published: February 21st, 2007 | 9:45am
Interpretaciones Del Oso offers up a remixed version of every song on Minus the Bear’s 2005 release Menos El Oso. While it is appealing to get an entirely new version of Menos El Oso, some songs are so much more successful than others. Like most things in nature, the tracks on the record follow the bell curve: with the utterly forgettable offerings occupying the swollen center, while the few good and the truly awful surface only at the tails.
Menos El Oso is a solid record, if not a bit monochromatic, so it’s interesting to see how the songs emerge after remixing. And though the overall results are disappointing, some of the remixes do stretch the original songs until they reveal something new without consuming them in the process. “Pachuca Sunrise” (Alias Remix) and “Michio’s Death Drive” (Michio aka Monostereo remix) as well as “Hooray” (Dark Baby remix) were bright spots. While “Memphis and 53rd,” (FOG remix) became a droning dirge that focused too much on vocal trickery, after surgically removing the groove of the original. “Fulfill the Dream,” (Old Italy Remix by Tyondai Braxton), another disappointment, sounded like a desiccated videogame soundtrack. It makes sense that the track order would vary from the original, but with many of the better tracks buried at the record’s end it became burdensome to reach them by playing the tracks in order.
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