There’s an allure to metamorphosis…not the soothing kind, but the sort that leaves you feeling deliciously unsettled. My Vertigo, initially a volatile dancefloor charge from Vexillary’s Horror in Dub, now drifts weightlessly through space, reshaped in Leon Switch’s deft remix. If the original ignited flames, this revision beckons through smoke.
Reza Seirafi, the mind behind Vexillary, hails from realms of chemistry and fragrance. A former perfumer, his approach blends alchemy with artistry, merging unexpected elements until they bloom into something utterly alien. His methodology holds a distorted logic, akin to scent lingering after lightning strikes.
My Vertigo (Leon Switch ReDub) awakens with a subterranean drone that coils around your chest. Like a signal pulsing through an empty passageway, it’s sleek, slippery, and edged with menace…Switch has transmuted its essence. Where jolting EBM once pierced, a seductive rhythm now throbs beneath the surface. Anxiety melts into ambience, suspended halfway between the airlock of an abandoned starship and a feverish reverie dissolving frame by frame.
Seirafi’s self-directed video dwells within its haze. Actress Sigrid Freborg portrays a woman unraveling inside a half-forgotten dream, mouthing words delivered by Baylee as if conjuring memories through amnesia. When the change finally consumes her, she’s beyond recognition, a vision Kubrick might conceive and Lynch would dare to film.
My Vertigo (Leon Switch ReDub) evades clarity, embracing confusion and finding truth in abstraction. It’s less a remix than resurrection: enigmatic, eerie, and effortlessly magnetic.
Watch the video for “My Vertigo” below:
With his EPs for Blaq Records, Reza Seirafi took on classic industrial sounds as ingredients and transmuted them to leave a refreshing modern take in his trail. In 2021, after nearly a decade of releasing music on independent labels, Vexillary founded his own imprint, con:trace. Vexillary’s first LP on the label, Full Frontal Lunacy, was a riveting EBM concept album juxtaposing Vexillary’s own brush with madness with that of a society on the brink of downfall.
Vexillary’s coveted sophomore full-length, Crash and Yearn, followed soon after in the summer of 2022. The critically acclaimed album presented an evolution in sound with its bold production choices, emotive vocals, and storytelling. 2023’s Horror in Dub is a compelling electronic outing that saw Vexillary adding a new layer of dubtinted bass music to his technoid darkwave palette to present a deep dive into the realm of horror and haunting beauty.
Stripped bare, split open, stitched anew: Horror ReDubs takes the sinew and circuitry of Horror in Dub and reanimates it into something colder, harder, hungrier. Vexillary’s third LP, already a monster of its own making, is dissected and reassembled by ten sonic surgeons, each grafting their own pulse onto its mechanized carcass. Blush Response twists Insurrection into a metallic snarl, Leon Switch drags My Vertigo into a bass-drenched abyss, VHS Head fractures Paris Spleen into a stuttering, static-laced hallucination. This is a machine-stitched nightmare stalking the wastelands of a world gone wrong.
Listen to Horror ReDubs below and order the album here.
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