Buzzin Electronic Music

On 21 July Pram are to release a remix EP of tracks taken from their recently released ‘The Moving Frontier’ album.

The EP is available on both 12″ and digital download formats and features remixes from Domino electronic duo Psapp, flashing psychedelic kid Grandmaster Gareth, Godsy (Gareth Cherrystone’s alter ego) and the childlike joy of Modified Toy Orchestra, as well as the album version of the title track which, with it’s instinctive and delicate arrangement, sounds like a dance scene from some long animated folk tale.

The digital download will be available as a two-week exclusive with Bleep.com

The vinyl tracklisting is:

A
‘Beluga’ (album version) [3.45]
‘Hums Around Us’ (Psapp vital sand pit remix) [3.26]
‘The Silk Road’ (Aguirre wrath of Godsy remix) by Cherrystones [5.11]

B
‘Beluga’ (Grandmaster Gareth mix) [3.42]
‘Salva’ (Throwing toys into the pram mix) by Modified Toy Orchestra [3.56]

Typifying a career that has always moved at its own exploratory pace, The Moving Frontier is as perfect a title as any to attempt to do justice to the breadth of Pram’s very English waking-but-still-dreaming musical adventure.

First convening in Birmingham around fifteen years ago Pram have constantly displayed the steeliness of purpose and locked together vision of outsider artists. Their discography feels like a guidebook to a set of disconcertingly familiar but remote places; and it reads like one too: Dark Island, North Pole Radio Station, The Museum of Imaginary Animals. The band’s sound is the soundtrack to these spaces: Rosie Cuckson’s lambent voice, ghosted keyboards, the rhythm as texture, all operating together to a strange heartbeat – a kind of lighthouse bulb glow.

To say Pram have always ploughed their own furrow is to underestimate the breadth and scale of their music. To listen to this record is to hear a group who have learned to play together whilst teaching each other a new language. The Moving Frontier is Pram at their most widescreen, they’ve created a mysterious and wonderful landscape that’s sky-wide open.

For those of you not familiar with the music of Pram, here is the extended version of their promotional video for Beluga.