One of the toughest tasks which artists of today are facing is making listeners go back and revisit an album you released even just a while ago. Rarely do people replay and dig deeper within the realms of a certain record as much as they did in pre-internet times. No one is to blame as there’s just so much music to be experienced and only so little time. With “Kanatitsa”, their first collaborative album, Bulgaria’s favorite electronic multitasker Ivan Shopov and traditional folklore singers Avigeya showed they are pretty good at pouring new energy into their work. The full-length was originally released on a CD, which sold in epic numbers. Then it was revived on audiphile vinyl and was of course backed by numerous live performances reaching as far as the USA. We were constantly reminded of the record and listeners never stopped caring about it even though whole two years passed since “Kanatitsa” was first shown to the world.

With “Kanatitsa Remixed” Shopov is taking the record to a whole new level by inviting 41 artists from all over the world to remix it. This results in an extensive amount of music, which shows “Kanatitsa” from tens of new angles but was still born and raised in the same soil where the original was planted, grew and blossomed. Almost every track from the album was remixed multiple times with the new versions ranging from drum and bass, trip-hop, hip-hop, IDM, ambient, trance and to techno. Namedropping and highlighting pieces in this carefully curated selection of artists is pointless but you are now able to create your own tracklist, depending on your music preferences but without moving too far from the original or disrespecting the impressive musicianship that was shown in “Kanatitsa” on the first place. What else should we say? Enjoy the flight maybe.