Ryan only did a handful of remixes for other artists, and I believe I have them all represented here. The other tracks are side projects (like Dubcon with cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy), a few more from his M Records catalog (Michael Rose/Ranking Joe), his appearances with DVOA/Hilt/Gaudi. Even as a session player, you can always recognize his presence. Those first two Strange Attractor records are a lot of fun with plenty of guest appearances by Pink Dots. Dubcon albums are everything I'd hoped for in a Skinny Puppy/Twilight Circus jam session. The MBM remix works better than I'd expected, hard to remix such a phenominal outing as Storm The Studio. Honestly, I might be letting my music sobbery bleed through here, its the Systemwide remix album that I'm a little disappointed in. In my opinion, it really sounds like someone used a rudimentary time stretch tool to try and beat sync all these random remixes together into a coninuously mixed whole, and it doesn't sound great. I hope the original of this remix exists somewhere and it gets released because this could be a very strong track - its that digitally-wobbly bassline that bugs me and does not sound like something Ryan would've done on his own. The next track from Nirgillis really hits its dub stride about 1/3 through the track; a mixed bag in my opinion. Onwards, the DVOA track is just fantastic, this is somewhat of an anomaly as they are traditionally dark ambient and make very sparce use of percussion. Hilt is so much more than another Skinny Puppy side project, this track I was introduced to by an ex and we'd listen to this EP nearly every time we hung out.
00:00 NIC - Twilight Circus Dub (NIC in Dub)
04:40 DJ Spooky, Twilight Circus & Alter Echo - Astral Blue
09:42 Strange Attractor - Rorschach (Twilight Circus mix)
14:12 Dubcon - Black Hole
19:31 Gaudi - Crucial Data
24:56 Zion Train - Hailling up the Selector (Twilight Circus Remix)
29:44 Ranking Joe - Happy Version
32:46 Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm the Dub (Twilight Circus)
37:29 Systemwide - Eyupsultan (Twilight Circus Sound System Remix)
41:15 Nirgilis - Coquettish (Twilight Circus Extended Mix)
45:38 Dead Voices on Air - The Durrow Book
50:51 Hilt - Orange Pony
59:45 Michael Rose - Throw Some Dub
64:04 DJ Spooky - Variation Cybernetique (Twilight Circus remix)
photo credit: https://www.moderndrummer.com/2004/05/ryan-moore/
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