Notes

This is the first thing I made as Loopsnake, and even after all these years, it's probably the best thing I ever made.

We'd played some shows together, mostly at goth clubs for some reason, and I loved this tune so much, so I asked for the stems. There's also a jungle version of my remix lost somewhere in the archives, that only got one play at one of the shows Joe Hardy put on at Pablo and Rusty's in Epping for his 'The Gate' project (pictured).

I want to say that I didn't realise the impact that Seekae and this song Void were going to have, but that would be a lie. A few months after we played together, they played at the Hopetoun Hotel in Sydney as support for Fire Island, which we all knew was a secret alias for Pivot (now PVT) around the time they got signed to Warp. Very much a rock music venue. The lads had their synths stacked on milk crates, hunched over their gear. Walking home from the show, I remember hearing some lanky hipster kid in a cardigan say to his friend, 'I think I liked the support act better than the main band'. Sydney was, at that time at least, very much a pub rock city, but I reckon this show was a real turning point for the culture. To paraphrase James Murphy, that was when we all started to sell our guitars and buy microkorgs. Then there was the Preset's second album, then there was Flume, but Seekae were one of the pioneers who charted the path to what eventually became the Sydney electronic music scene.

I also have to thank Lee Tran Lam for her neverending support of Loopsnake and my other projects on her beloved and phenomenally long running FBi Radio show Local Fidelity. I was genuinely surprised and touched when she decided to play this remix on her last ever show. The moral of the story is we all love Seekae and we all love Lee Tran. - AM

Original photography by Matt Davis