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Manicured Noise arose from the postpunk landscape of England in the late 1970s. Steven Walsh, guitarist and eventual frontman for the act forged his musical roots as a member of Flowers of Romance, the same group where Sid Vicious and Keith Levene launched amazing careers by way of humble beginnings. Drawing on the vocal influence of bands like Talking Heads and Television, Manicured Noise incorporated choppy futuristic jazz, dub, punk and Northern Soul rhythms, but like many similar bands of the era and genre, publicly released very little material across a brief career. Manicured Noise’s public catalog offered only two 7inch releases, Faith and Metronome/Moscow, both released in 1980. Luckily for fans, Caroline True Records painstakingly collected much of Manicured Noise’s unreleased and buried material on 2006’s Northern Stories 1978/1980, an equal parts primer and compendium of the band’s history.

I truthfully hadn’t thought of Manicured Noise, or Caroline True Records in some time until last night when Brooklyn DJ/producer Cousin Cole sent over the exciting news that alongside Pocketknife, Jon Da Silva (of legendary club, Hacienda) and Wedderkopp + Taylor, have worked with the label on a remix EP titled Manicured Noise Remixed—The Pocketnoise EP. The EP is now available here as well as through iTunes, emusic, Amazon and boomkat. To hear the full version you’ll have to pick up the EP, but Cole has provided us with a promo version of his bass-thumping, sax-wailing, vocal-screeching edit. When you hear the breakdown on this track you are going to lose your shit. A piece of work so fucking stellar it requires expletives, not for effect, but for accurate description. Ed Macfarlane of the Friendly Fires would be jealous.

This is so up my alley it’s ridiculous. Favorite remix of the year? Perhaps.

Manicured Noise - Metronome (Cousin Cole Remix 2-5) (Promo Edit) (224 kbps)

Manicured Noise - Metronome (320 kbps)

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