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Tame Impala - Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind? (Erol Alkan Rework)
Erol Alkan's rework of Tame Impala's ‘Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind' is set to be released on February 6th on Modular Records (digital + 12" release). You can get it earlier from iTunes, starting January 30th (iTunes Exclusive for just one week!)
‘Upon hearing, it sounds like it was always meant to be, but things didn't start out that way. When Innerspeaker was complete it was sent to Erol with the instructions, "pick whatever song you want, we'd love you to remix something, anything, do your worst, please!" - and so Erol chose the album closer ‘I Don't Really Mind'...A few weeks later we heard a 8 minutes acid workout with a breakdown which felt like it lasted a small lifetime, and we all loved it enough to accept it. This was apparently ‘mix 1′, although we later found out there had been a further 5. A few days later, we received an e-mail from Erol where he effectively withdrew the remix from Modular...
I strive to make each remix better then the last, and my claustrophobic acid effort is not working how I'd like it to. So I would like to pretend that remix never happened. Delete it. Tell the band they imagined it and that if they can't, I'll come and brainwash them..or maybe even blow so hard into their ears that it pushes the memory out of their skins...
But I shan't give up just yet. I think I chose the wrong track in the first place - I couldn't get anything better out of it that was already there. The one I should have chosen was ‘Why Wont You Make Up Your Mind'.'
It's finally here, rush released due to public demand...and it's entirely worth the wait. And while those mythical 5 other "lost mixes" will be buried in the basement for evermore, herein lies the majestic, body moving Erol Alkan rework of ‘Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind? by Tame Impala. Enjoy.