Getting the man often credited with founding the hardcore techno sound and one of Björk’s collaborators onto the same twelve inch takes some arranging. Bulletdodge has done it anyway. Hats off!
Gareth Whitehead set the label up in 2008 and still runs it out of Carluke. The catalogue since then has taken in Robert Hood, Carl Cox, Vince Watson, Ben Sims and Silicone Soul, and Cox rated it enough to name it his favourite label on his Global show back in March 2012.
The label is still going strong, and four tracks from the extensive back catalogue have gone out to four remixers with almost nothing in common. Lord of the Isles is Neil McDonald, working out of Edinburgh with records on ESP Institute, Permanent Vacation and Mule Musiq.
Lenny Dee is Leonard Didesiderio, who founded Industrial Strength in New York in 1991 and opened it with the record usually credited as the first hardcore techno release.
Rabit is Eric Burton out of Houston, who runs Halcyon Veil and turned up on Björk’s ‘Utopia’. Suna Path is the nearest thing here to a regular, having already landed the ‘Moorlands E.P.’ on Bulletdodge with Jan Cree back in 2020.
Alec Cheer opens proceedings with ‘Moon Phases (Lord of the Isles' L0‑T1 Reshape)’. The track is a dubby house affair, with a humid, super hazy verve to it. The original was released in October 2025, and definitely leaned more into an ambient electronica sound than this sultry remix.
Lenny Dee steps up next with his remix of ‘Na Bori’ by Seckou Keita and Gareth Whitehead. Proving that he doesn’t always have to tear you a new earhole, Dee actually goes and turns the whole composition into an immersive atmosphere rather than a track. Any traces of percussion are all but gone. Sublime.
‘Under Way’ is up next, by Seis Drum and remixed by Rabit. Originally from the album of the same name, the low slung breakbeats of the original are pulverised into something altogether more industrial than the OG jam; to be expected from one as experimental as our remixer here.
We close on Suna Path’s outstanding remix of Werner Niedermeier’s snail house track ‘Back in the Day’, which is washed with corrosive synths and adds a tripped-out lilt to the repeating vocal. This is our favourite track on the record; a very accomplished rework of the original from the Scot.
Filed as BDREC035, digital, out now. Get yours on Bandcamp.
