Time for a confession here – this is the only time I’ve discovered a brilliant (released) tune of interest to TYFTH and decided to keep it away from the site for a while, saving it for use in a set/event. Now that CODEX has been and gone (more on that later), it’s about time to finally give a wider shout out to Thanatos’ wonderful remix of Rise, the main theme of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

There’s quite a bit of ‘noisiness’ in the top end, but with so much sampling going on it’s easy to forgive, especially as Thanatos has done such a fine job with the track’s structure. I spent a very long time indeed thinking about the the connections into and out of this tune, and at least to my ears it fitted right into the atmosphere I was going for at CODEX (and indeed the connection will appear again in my next recorded set). The video up the top uses the radio edit of the track, but I’m sure you get the idea. Finally, massive thanks to Gaia for initially letting me know about the track, this has to be one of the best recommendations I’ve ever received.

edit: Big thanks to raqhow for reminding me of the link to buy the track – you can find it here.