For Heathered Pearls’ Jakub Alexander, music and visual art are eternally intertwined. The two creative disciplines permeate the Brooklyn-based artist’s sophomore release, Body Complex, a well-crafted melange of classic architectural structure, ambient sound design, melodic Detroit techno, and beyond on standout moments like “Interior Architecture Software” and “Abandoned Mall Utopia.”
“When music from the 2000s like Gas, early Dial, and Mille Plateaux releases popped up in my headphones, it was completely visual for me,” Alexander explains. “Something clicked from collecting pages out of old Architectural Digest magazines and being completely overwhelmed with inspiration for my own visions of interior architecture.”
So what’s he looking for in a winning remix? “I’m hoping someone will strip away some of its moodiness and give it a tasteful, melodic, big-room makeover; I always imagined some Daniel Avery or old Border Community size to it.”
Got what it takes to be crowned our next Beatport Play champion? Make your mark by remixing Heathered Pearls’ techno talisman “Warm Air Estate” featuring Outerbridge.
Enter our latest Play remix contest by October 5 for your chance to win our exclusive grand prize including a Nektartech Panorama P4 keyboard, Bitwig Studios software, a Point Blank pro course, the SilverLine Collection plugin bundle, free LANDR WAV mastering, Sounds to Sample Elements library and an official release on Matthew Dear’s Ghostly International.
Don’t miss all the action in our other Play contests below:
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– Vudu’s Halloween producer challenge
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– Mia Dora’s “Raw Kiss” contest
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– Butane’s “Hey Hipster” contest
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– Brett Gould’s “Reflections” contest
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– Above & Beyond’s “Counting Down The Days” contest
Recent winner announcements:
– Congratulations goes out to Turkish beat maestro mtcrmx, aka Metehan Cucen, who won Xenia Ghali’s “Get Dirty” remix contest (and took home our exclusive grand prize including an Elektron Analog Rytm) with this captivating entry and had this to say about it: “This song completely resonated with me. For my remix, I wanted to achieve a big, full sound that captured the integrity of the original.”
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