Bartosz Dziadosz's Pleq alias has been active for nearly three years, yet has remained a prolific force since 2007 with various digital and CD(-R) releases alongside collaborations with Canadian composer Segue. Pleq's work is generally regarded as IDM, making use of both synthetic and organic sounds to spawn otherworldly textures backed by sparse rhythms. His latest offering on the Basses Frequencies imprint is one of his deepest outings into ambient music.
Good Night, though a single, the three remixes following its centerpiece provide the equal balance of diversity and consistency that a full-length offering would strive for. "Good Night" has a cold, yearning disposition with spacious piano phrases that exemplify the scenery alluded to in its title. The three remixes aren't just reinterpretations of the opener, but are as far from the original as the boundaries allow. Each track encapsulates the same mood, yet is counteracted by elements that are unique to each contributor: Philippe Lamy's subtly crackling found sound, Pjusk's meditative guitar reversals, and offthesky's digitized passages.
Across the board, Pleq's Good Night is an exceptionally solid release-- even more so by the standards of singles. The original and its remixes effortlessly meld together and negate the sentiment that a reworking will always be triumphed by the music that it's based on. Pleq's work is stellar and engaging in its own right, and it's novel to see it in the context of other artists' aesthetics that are not only loyal to the original, but even rival it.
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