RECONSTRUCTING TRUTH

Addicted to Lies (Reconstructed Make Me Whole Mix)
Out Now - May 9, 2025

One of the great joys of making music - especially when you’ve spent decades with both feet planted in the world of electronic music - is the freedom to revisit and reimagine your own work. Remixing has always been a form of creative play for me. It’s a space where instinct takes the wheel. Often, I’ll start with a vague idea - sometimes little more than a hunch - and follow it down the rabbit hole. More often than not, that first impulse ends up being the right one.

With Addicted to Lies, the idea was simple: slow everything down and let the groove breathe.

I imagined a long, hypnotic house jam - loose percussion, an acid line that creeps up on you, and just enough space in the arrangement to feel submerged. A kind of slow-motion intensity. I dropped the tempo to 102 BPM, which firmly plants it in ALFOS territory - that signature low-slung vibe pioneered by Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston over a decade ago. ALFOS (A Love From Outer Space) always had a self-imposed speed limit - 120 BPM or below - and would often hover around 100-110, cultivating a deeper, less frantic energy on the dancefloor. That ethos resonates with me on every level, both sonically and emotionally. It’s music for movement, but also for reflection.

To make it work, I had to re-record all the vocals. The original track was around 70 BPM, and simply time-stretching the vocals up to 102 just didn’t feel right - it lost its character. So I sang them all again, changed some harmonies, and allowed the vocal textures to evolve with the new rhythm. That’s the thing about remixing: it’s not always about tweaking what's there. Sometimes it’s about treating the original like a set of ideas rather than a set of parts. In this case, it was almost like covering my own song - reshaping it completely while staying true to its emotional core.

Over the course of making these Reconstructed mixes from The Shadowmaker, I’ve found myself less interested in club edits or functional remixes, and more drawn to reinterpretation. Songs have many shapes. They can stretch, dissolve, and reform. They can haunt in one form and heal in another.

Addicted to Lies (Reconstructed Make Me Whole Mix) is part of that ongoing exploration.

Thanks for listening.