Bodywash - "Kind of Light (Remix by Khotin)"

Khotin’s excellent Release Spirit was a huge record for me last year. The Montreal duo Bodywash also seemed to be touched by the release and tapped Khotin to remix the “Kind of Light” into a Boards of Canada style, downtempo light-banger of a track that leans into the degraded synth tones and airy vocals found on Release Spirit.

According to the press release, “There are many places like home. On I Held the Shape While I Could, the sophomore record from Montreal duo Bodywash, home is a mutable thing; a location that is fixed until it isn’t. Over the album’s twelve tracks, Chris Steward and Rosie Long Decter reflect on their separate and shared experiences of losing a sense of place, the way something once solid can slip between your fingers, and their attempts to build something new from the fallout.

Release Spirit, by the electronic artist Khotin, was in heavy rotation while Bodywash were on the road last year, soundtracking everything from the craggy cliffs of the Pacific Northwest to the dreaded NJ Turnpike, so the duo were keen to have him remix their song, “Kind of Light.” 

His version takes the tension and catharsis of the original song and injects it with blissed-out euphoria. It’s a track that’s destined for a sunrise slot in the chill-out room, channeling the West Coast rave psychedelia of Pilgrims of the Mind along with the more ambient influences that informed Bodywash’s last record.”