L.A. based producer/instrumentalist Shok (a.k.a. Zeitmahl), is one bad dude. You mightn’t have guessed it, but we’re all about sinister dark industrial gothtronix shit. And Shok provides!
Formerly in the seminal industrial/techno rock band My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult, as well as recording with International DeeJay Gigalos artist Mount Sims (who helped usher in the modern sexy-electro sound with ’02s ‘Ultra Sex’), Shok has quite a bit of impressive production and rockstar credentials.
Now, gothic icons The Sisters of Mercy have a canon of songs that are perfect as they exist, but their sparse soundscapes have always made me wonder how they’d sound with a tricked-out backbeat. Enter, Shok, who took The Sisters’ classic ‘Lucretia, My Reflection’ and mixes it down for the dancefloor—re-christened ‘New Cretia’ under the yet another moniker of Shok, Sisters of Mixing:
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MP3: Sisters Of Mixing - New Cretia
Another recent remix of Seattle/NYC EMB/Electro band CYLAB also gets a lot of play at my house. Some shit you can dance and cry to at the same time.
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MP3: CYLAB - Grays (Graced by Shok & Zeitmahl mix)
Shok is currently working with heavyweight Bristol drum’n'bass’r Tech Itch on a the colab. project found here. We expect good things.
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Shok! You have so many different names that it is becoming almost impossible to keep up!
This Sisters mix is FANTASTIC! Ever think about releasing an entire CD of Sisters stuff remixed? If you do, let me know as I will be first in line to get a copy the minute they come off the presses!
Mike V
Hidden Sanctuary Radio
this is wicked, both pieces. shok of te-er, here, made my soundtrack elements for my film, ‘A Permanent Change’. Talk about dark. sinister? go watch it if you like remixed audio/video and seriously creepy work.
excellent website, excellent tunes.
I have to second what that guy above said, IF you decide to do a whole Sisters Remix Album/CD I will have to fight with that dude to be the first in line to buy it! That is the best damned Sisters remix I have ever heard. Wish there was some way of knowing if Andrew Eldritch himself has heard it yet? Ever think about remixing some live and unreleased Sisters songs to give them that studio sound? Hint: “Crash And Burn” would be the best choice.