The music that Manfredas and drummer Marijus Aleska make as Santaka – inspired by Don Cherry, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock – has been made over. The Lithuanian duo first enlisting their Romanian mates, Khidja, who take on a couple of tracks individually. Andrei Rusu reimagines No Rivers Here as gently rumbling, rolling, electronics. Part Detroit techno relic, part John Hassell’s fourth world. A muted mist of horns and disembodied spirits. Its brooding bottom-end gurgling, gradually turning acidic. Tiny tingsha tintinnabulations keeping time on its wonky, wobbling, softly bumping and rocking ride. Florentin Tudor – as Wavesovspace – reworks Opening Chasms, with drones, ratting, skeletal percussion, and time-stretched vocals. Like a drum & bass tune, with the drums removed. Its leviathan LFOs laced with free-jazz / improv saxophone skronk and squiggles. The musical terrain twinned to that mapped by artists such as Deep Nalstrom and RamZi. Finally Factory Floor’s Nik Colk Void transforms the dangerously dubbed-out 555 into a racing, 130 BPM, industrial-edged percussive ritual. A programmed magick drum circle / ceremony of metallic machined marimba. A hypnotic trance-dance, where elements are constantly changing within its tight, locked groove. Recalling O Yuki Conjugate, Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia, and the impossible energy of FF’s own classic, Two Different Ways. For my money it’s a “boss” Balearic beat, by accident, like Fini Tribe’s similarly shamanic De Testimony. 

The remixes of Santaka’s No Rivers Here are out now, digitally, on Byrd Out. Nik Colk Void’s fantastic take on 555 has also been physically pressed on a super limited 8” single.