Description
Reconstruction is the fifth album, as well as the major label debut, by the Swedish born, American based composer and producer David Thulin, released on Dream Records in April 2013.
Swedish-born, Minneapolis-based producer and remixer Thulin has with this, his fifth album, succeeded in taking tracks from a wide range of artists, from Canadian pop rockers Manic Drive to R&B crossover maestros Group 1 Crew, and giving them a dazzling new coat of musical paint. Nimbly avoiding the trap many remixers fall into, of removing so much from the multi-track that it becomes a skeletal and often incoherent echo of the original but still able to take multifarious tracks and give them dancefloor appeal, this is an appealing set. My particular favourites are Beckah Shae’s R&B grower «Put Your Love Glasses On», transformed to dubstep; Remedy Drive’s «Better Than Life» made into pure trance and with a surprise lush orchestral surge at the close; Alex Masters’ «My Heart Breaking» where on the second chorus Taylor Swift-style country suddenly mutates into the hardest dubstep drop on the album; and the closing «Euphoria» trance instrumental by Thulin himself. All in all, a great example of the remixer’s art. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, April 2013]
There is nothing quite like the “they’re the Christian version of…” phenomenon. A non-secular version of everything – but it’s OK! They’re Christian!
David Thulin is that, but for EDM. (If your home is somewhere under a rock, EDM is short for “electronic dance music.” It was all but pioneered in the mainstream in the 1990s and 2000s by acts like Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, and Prodigy, but is more intensely famous now with DJs and performers like Skrillex and Deadmau5 earning six figures a night performing in places like Las Vegas and Dubai.) The sound has expanded as well, incorporating a number of sub-genres like trance, house, and club.
Thulin’s major mission is to bring CEDM (yes, that’s short for Christian electronic dance music) to the world. To be fair to Thulin, if you’re on board with the Christian-alternative movement, that hole is there waiting to be filled. Thulin is a great producer (and, interestingly enough, a former commercial air pilot); he’s released a couple of independent albums prior to Reconstruction, but for his first major label release, he’s taken a number of Christian hits and given them the EDM renovation.
But the album is still simply remixes. And if your source material isn’t Grade A, you’re starting the day in a hole. You don’t make the best sushi with fish from yesterday.
The major issue with Christian alternatives is that they rarely do it better than their secular counterparts. In fact, due to the niche market, a lot of times they don’t have to try too hard because of the built-in marketplace.
I believe that Thulin tried on this record, but with the ubiquitousness of the sound, cheaper laptops, and freely available instrumental and acapella tracks on the Internet, the remix world is getting larger and larger. Every high schooler who was once a rapper is now a DJ. It won’t be long before he has competition, and labels realize that CEDM can sell, too. We’ll see what’s left when that happens. [David Stagg, HM, May 2013 (Issue No. 166)]
> iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/album/reconstruction/1730831201)
CD tracklist:
01. He Said (David Thulin Remix) [feat. Group 1 Crew] – 3:40
02. Good Times (David Thulin Remix) [feat. Manic Drive] – 3:11
03. #putyourloveglasseson (David Thulin Remix) [feat. Beckah Shae] – 3:29
04. Better Than Life (David Thulin Remix) [feat. Remedy Drive] – 3:53
05. NY2LA (David Thulin Remix) [feat. Press Play] – 3:29
06. Vicious (David Thulin Remix) [feat. Silverline] – 3:40
07. Dead Come To Life (David Thulin Remix) [feat. Jonathan Thulin & Charmaine] – 3:44
08. Feel (David Thulin Remix) [feat. Rachael Lampa] – 3:36
09. Tell Me (David Thulin Remix) [feat. Charmaine] – 3:26
10. Hope Will Rise (David Thulin Remix) [feat. Warr Acres] – 5:18
11. My Heart Breaking (David Thulin Remix) [feat. Alex Masters] – 4:39
12. Come Back Home (David Thulin Remix) [feat. Spencer Combs] – 4:03
13. Reconstruction – 7:38
14. Euphoria – 6:36
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