Sometimes you light a match and you cant stop the fire. "Hangout Galaxy; ALT DMN EDN," pronounced Alternate Dimension Edition, began with an idea. Work with some live tracks, new songs, and maybe a remix. Seriously. And then I made the mistake of telling Alex Hanner, founder and curator of El Gran E Records, about finding a remix of ONE of my songs. He kind of only contacted and roped in 22 different artists to take some tracks and drive them in their own style and artistic approach.
3 continents, 6 countries, and 22 tracks later, a small idea became a double CD that once again uses physical formats like the vinyl release of Hangout Galaxy to present the dark and the light. The range of sounds, voices, hit every emotional state.
Broken into two parts, StarLight & MoonLight, each CD drifts between dueling vocal performances from friends and completely broken apart tracks, built up into something different for an evolving listening experience. It's a large cross section of the El Gran E Records universe on full display in high fidelity mastering by C MONEY BURNS.
ALT DMN EDN features everything from noise and abstract to beautiful ambience with faint pulsations of the ether. Hip hop artists include Thorts, Nicolas Lafforgue, OlaTunde, Haze Thy Puppet Master, Jack Vaul, and Tommy Jordan, all these unique voices that rejuvenate and reform to create Starlight, the first CD. Amongst individual remixes by cQTK (pronounced cal-que-tec), there are also unique unintended collaborations that come about such as the the song, Deliberate Sorrow, with the prolific Joel Siméus. There are also incredible sprawling reinventions by Hieroglych, storyinsoil, k-the-i???, EJ Fry, who each take the controls and navigate into new spaces.
The 2nd CD, Moonlight, is an arrangement of producers that again move thru their unique filters. Instead of shine and light, in Moonlight, there's spaciousness, growls, the darkness, grainy and spectacular that emanate from the absolute monster of a track by Darren Ryan, followed by instrumentalist Progeny, producer Tone999, synthesize specialist Hands & Feet, ambient master City of Dawn, hip hop producers Smokey131 & Silencio, producer and instrumentalist C Money Burns (who also mastered the record), producers The Lonely Bell, Conrad Burnham, and finally the epic ending track by ATOP. Each remix has the unique talents of every artist involved and has their best qualities on display.
Over the span of 4 months, with a fever pitch and commitment all over the world, cQTK and friends, did it for the love, for the art and for the visions, passions, and commitments to music wrangled together by El Gran E Records.
credits
released March 3, 2023
Thanks to Alex Hanner & El Gran E Records for making this experience possible, and all the artists who contributed and spent time making these tracks have new life . . . THANK YOU!!!
tracks 1-3, 6-7 mixed by Curt Allday
piano on tracks 1-3, 6-7 by Karen Allday
all other tracks mixed by artists listed
mastered by C Money Burns at Cosmic Black LTD in Portland, ME
album artwork by Curt Allday
CD packaging by Atomic Disk Portland, OR
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