Benedict Sinister doesn’t do anything by halves. I’ve only been acquainted with his sonic world for a short time, but even that is enough to make me appreciate how revolutionary he truly is. If you look at the word “remix” and think, here we go again, an artist on the make, a slight rejig of a song and a scam to make people buy the same song twice, then I’m happy to tell you that you couldn’t be more wrong! (I know that wrong is an absolute state and doesn’t need quantifying, but I’m trying to make a point here.)
When the mysterious Mr Sinister remixes something, it isn’t just a few tweaks here and there; it is a year zero approach, one akin to razing the original song to the ground and then finding the few key building blocks to use as a foundation to create something totally new.
You Dance in the Club is actually a reworking of his recent single Only Sixteen, but with a new title, a fraction of the lyrics retained and a high octane groove where the more balladic meander once was, it is nothing if not a whole new sonic entity.
It takes a brave person to understand that a song’s story never really ends, that there is no final form, no perfect version. So why not keep reshaping and exploring what it can be, or better still, let others add their input, add a new chapter to its narrative penned in a different musical handwriting? It takes a brave person indeed to say, do what you will, throw caution to the wind and see what others make of your music. At the end of the day, can you ever really own music? Aren’t you just a fleeting custodian in a world where everything needs to evolve?
If music stays still, it dies. Benedict Sinister is not about to let that happen.
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