Premiere: Strange Fruit – Monopolar (Hardway Bros Remix)

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A Hardway dancefloor throb injected into Strange Fruit’s shoegaze-inflected original…

There was a Strange Fruit from Jakarta who said, “I shall go on Tuesday, iridescent and red!
With a hypnodub shimmer and kosmische delight, I shall drip upon Wednesday and dance through the night!”

The Hardway Bros heard it and let out a shout: “We’ll remix your polarness inside and about!
We’ll chug through the shoegaze and acid the house, Till the SSL dubs frighten even the mouse!”

So the Fruit and the Bros on a Gentle Tuesday Went sailing on Monopolar waves far away,
With a Pouvoi Moteur and a Tom Furse dub too, And they dripped and they gleamed in iridescent blue.

“O Fruit!” said the Bros, “O remarkable thing! You are dreamy and poppy and you know how to sing!
You are krautrock and electronica, strange as can be, And we’ll live on the SSL for ever,” said he.

Jakarta’s Strange Fruit occupy an unusual space: a band whose shoegaze-inflected live sound sits in a completely different world from the underground electronic circuits their members move through as producers and DJs.

It’s that dual existence that makes the remix package around their forthcoming Drips EP so compelling – dispatches from a shared musical universe.

For the Monopolar remix, Sean Johnston, under his Hardway Bros moniker, does what he very much does best: find the load-bearing elements of a track and build something new around them. Where the original carries its kosmische momentum intact, this version leans into the slowed-down throb, peeling back the layers and letting the groove do the work.

Drips arrives via Gentle Tuesday Recordings soon. With remixes still to come from Tom Furse among others, Strange Fruit are making a quietly persuasive case for themselves as one of the more interesting propositions to emerge from Jakarta’s electronic underground.

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