Somewhere between the primordial swamp and the outer reaches of the cosmos, Violet Nox have discovered a rather splendid place to lose your mind. Their new remix of Spectre, courtesy of German electronic experimentalist Chris Wirrwitz (Black Snow on Christmas), sends the Boston outfit’s extraterrestrial excursions hurtling through an electronic wilderness where flowers dance, planets collide, and the machinery of existence appears to have developed a considerable appetite for psychedelics.
Originally released on Violet Nox’s October 2025 album Silvae through Somewherecold Records, Spectre already possessed the sort of cosmic curiosity that could send a reasonably sober person searching the heavens for intelligent life. Wirrwitz, who has spent three decades exploring everything from experimental rock to modular synthesis, takes those foundations and sets the controls for a rather more turbulent destination.
The synthesizers roll forward in great undulating waves, their melodic contours continually shifting beneath rhythms that seem to have acquired minds of their own. Dorsey’s extraordinary vocals rise through the electronic undergrowth, invoking the spectral grandeur of Dead Can Dance while carrying an unmistakable sense of earthly vulnerability. Every new layer introduces another possibility, another strange passage through a composition that seems perpetually on the verge of swallowing its own coordinates. Beneath the kaleidoscopic mischief runs a fascinating tension between organic life and technological invention.
And then comes Allison Tanenhaus’s magnificent music video, a gloriously deranged excursion into the sort of science-fiction paradise that might have resulted if Fantastic Planet, vintage anime, and a particularly ambitious planetarium exhibition had somehow reproduced. Wirrwitz’s synthesizers advance through the composition with restless determination, while Tanenhaus gives their movements physical form through rotating structures, celestial bodies, and constantly transforming landscapes.
Circles spin across impossible horizons. Prismatic light fractures into geometric formations, constellations drift through vast expanses of darkness, and alien vegetation sways with the peculiar enthusiasm of organisms that have discovered music for the first time. The imagery continually mutates, suggesting an ecosystem where biology and mathematics have entered into some deliciously questionable arrangement.
Those purple flowers deserve special attention. Their theatrical movements recall the botanical chorus of Disney’s version of Alice in Wonderland, particularly All in the Golden Afternoon, although Tanenhaus has transported these cheerful little exhibitionists into territory where Lewis Carroll might have benefited from a spacecraft and a substantial supply of tranquilizers.
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Additional production from Andrew Abrahamson and Dez DeCarlo of Violet Nox, with mastering by Abrahamson, completes an excursion into electronic psychedelia that feels wonderfully untethered from ordinary geography.
Released November 10, 2026, through Aumega Project Germany, Spectre offers approximately the closest available experience to watching the universe invent new species while somebody plays synthesizers aboard a passing asteroid.
Listen to Spectre (Remix) below and order the single here.
