Deceiver Vol 3 & 4
From the brutally curtailed loops and distorted beats of “100 Great Turks” to the hypnotically layered percussion and voice duet of “Opulent Baku Cube” to the oddly funky broken beat of “Maharajaganjinna,” volume 3 of Deceiver remains an essential listen, one that time has only rendered more contemporary. On this two-disc reissue it is accompanied by the 11 unused remixes that make up Deceiver vol 4. The second disc here features several intriguing shorter mixes of “Deceiver” itself that emphasize different sides of the track’s sound, as well as several other mixes that take Jones’ sound in fascinating new directions. The burbling fourth mix sounds like nothing less than the cousin of some of Astral Social Club’s friendlier material, and several tracks such as the seventh mix are so quiet and patient they’re the closest Muslimgauze ever came to ambient music.