Prurient Remixes John Carpenter's "Purgatory"

Earlier this year, horror icon John Carpenter released his first non-soundtrack album, Lost Themes. On October 16, Lost Themes Remixed will arrive on vinyl via Sacred Bones. It collects reworks from Zola Jesus, Blanck Mass (Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power), Foetus' JG Thirlwell, ohGr, Bill Kouligas, and Silent Servant that originally appeared on the deluxe edition of the album, plus two new tracks. The new remixes are Prurient's take on "Purgatory" and Uniform (the Men's Ben Greenberg)'s remix of "Vortex". Listen to the Prurient remix above.

Dominick Fernow (Prurient) shared this statement about his remix:

John Carpenter is the master of sustained tension with electronic music. The fine line between stasis and energy is almost impossible to define but Carpenter consistently achieves this paradox with Spartan means. This remix attempts to break the compositional tension of Carpenter's 'Purgatory' and through a process of colliding loop cycles—a technique used on the Pleasure Ground album reformatting the electronics into a earth like texture outside of the urban environments traditionally connected to synthesis.

Read our interviews with Carpenter and with Prurient.

Lost Themes Remixed:

01 Purgatory (Prurient Remix)
02 Night (Zola Jesus & Dean Hurley Remix)
03 Wraith (ohGr Remix)
04 Vortex (Silent Servant Remix)
05 Vortex (Uniform Remix)
06 Fallen (Blanck Mass Remix)
07 Abyss (JG Thirlwell Remix)
08 Fallen (Bill Kouligas Remix)

via Evan Minsker