I was fifteen when I discovered that despite what they say, you really can forget how to ride a bike after several years of very little practice. I had attempted to make my way to a friend’s yoga class after school one day on her BMX upon her insistence that it would be far easier than just walking there. Unfortunately I discovered that after having to extract myself from many an impossibly-scratchy-yet-reasonably-positioned decorative hedge, which forced me to defeatedly escort her bike the rest of the way, about twenty minutes into the class the heathens suddenly started chanting, and it was weird, so I’m all, “Ahh shit… I quit this bitch!” (Internally of course, because there was no way I was going to risk brawling with fifteen other scantily-clad, sweaty females with broken concentrations on a number of spongy blue mats, I don’t care how erotic it sounds.) Thus ended my brief foray into bendy sports.

I was reminded of my inability to retain basic developmental skills on a Fraser Island holiday a few months later (don’t believe the hype – they make you think the place is teeming with savage wild dingoes, but I didn’t even see one, let alone get my arm ripped off by it). My friend mentioned something about tandem bike-riding around the mainland (??), and I told her good lord, no, I’m staying here at the resort with Hyper Lode Runner, but could you please bring me back some of that coconut gelato, no I don’t care if it melts on the boat.

Big Stereo’s Travis picked up on the abundance of raw potential in the Brisbane-based BMX’s track, Theme to BMX, when it was released to the interwebs way back in April. Electrorash favourite, 1928, has since harnessed this potential in the form of his latest remix, in which he tones down the potentially irritating novelty vocal-work of the original to render it kind of adorable, whilst bringing the brilliant synth-based melody well into the forefront and letting it take the track to a gorgeous climax around the 2:30 mark. He has well and truly cleaned this particular puppy up, so not only is it now undeniably dancefloor-ready, it also plays out like a completed thought, and not just a remix.

Next on the 1928 remix agenda is the perfectly-matched College’s Can You Kiss Me First, which, together with his upcoming original material, will presumably end up so pretty it will accidentally explode things. In the meantime though, you can find some of his older remixes here, here, and here, and visit his Myspace page here.

BMX – Theme to BMX (1928 Diamondback Remix)

- bec