Re: Gemini by LSSNS

The electro / synthwave - trio LSSNS from Helsinki and Leipzig teams up with Leipzig’s coldwave / dark ambient project Warm Graves to revisit "Gemini", the first single form LSSNS' debut album "Transit".

Warm Graves’ Jonas Wehner delivers two sophisticated new approaches to LSSNS’ „Gemini“, a straight-forward remix, and a brittle and broken, but all the more haunting rework version. Wehner details his approach:

"Patrick and I used to play in a band before I started Warm Graves. We're still very good friends, so when he asked me if I could do a remix for 'Gemini,' it felt like a nice way to reconnect musically.

When I do remixes, I usually provoke accidents by creating chaos first and then reshaping it by recording new tracks on top. That’s how I ended up with two very different versions: with the rework, I stayed closer to the original, mostly bending its structure and adding new harmonies. The remix, on the other hand, turned out to be a wholly new tune that hardly resembles the original track."

Over a stoic beat and foggy interwoven keyboards, the gloomy, yet driving synth pop of the original track negotiates the complexity of mutual dependencies. LSSNS elaborate:

"Ideally most lyrics work on a personal and a political level at the same time. This is about conjoined twins and reflects on partnership as much as our need to rely on each other, not without looking at the downsides of that either. Not being the judge, merely the spectator…"

Tracklist

1.	Gemini (Warm Graves Remix)	2:36

2.	Gemini (Warm Graves Rework)	3:40

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released July 12, 2024

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