Claude Vonstroke's warped house label Dirtybird are running a remix competition for the new single by the Martin Brothers, a dark, breathy cut with the ubiquitous half-compelling/half-infuriating vocal line. I didn't intend to actually create a complete remix - submitting a remix a week before the voting deadline ends is essentially a pointless exercise - but after paring down a couple of the parts to their skeletal forms, I wound up creating this witchy phantasm of the original:

The Martin Brothers - Dum (Ad Hoc's invocation remix)

To be played at the opening and close of your next seance.

Just released: Parallelograms, a departure from the usual Ad Hoc collages of sound fragments and a return to classical DJing, albeit with a digital bent.

The first in a series of Ad Hoc DJ mixes, Parallelograms covers unintentionally international terrain in recent house and techno, with tracks hailing from Stockholm, Santiago, Berlin, Marseille, Valencia, Bremen, Chemnitz, London and Paris. But perhaps most extraordinary is Chris Watson's subaquatic recording of the creaking movement of the Vatnajökull glacier - from Iceland, via Watson's home in Newcastle.