TKOL RMX 1234567 is a remix album of songs from the album The King of Limbs (2011) by the English rock band Radiohead. It was released on 16 September 2011 in Japan and on 10 October 2011 internationally by XL Recordings.
Contributing artists include Jamie xx, Nathan Fake, Four Tet, Caribou, Modeselektor, Mark Pritchard and SBTRKT. Radiohead said they wanted to allow the music to "mutate" by giving it to other artists to remix. Most of the remixes were also released as singles. TKOL RMX received mainly positive reviews.
Background On 6 June 2011, Radiohead announced a series of remixes from their eighth album, The King of Limbs, by various artists. The singer, Thom Yorke, said Radiohead wanted to experiment by giving the music to other artists to remix, and liked the idea that it was not "fixed and set in stone". He praised remix culture, and said: "I didn't just want floor-fillers and all that shit, I just wanted to see how the songs could really branch out and mutate." The drummer, Philip Selway, said he felt The King of Limbs was the Radiohead album that best lent itself to remixing.
Release The retail version of TKOL RMX was released on 16 September 2011 in Japan and 10 October in other countries. It reached number five on the US Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart. Radiohead promoted the release with a live event at London's Corsica Studios on 11 October, with DJs including Yorke, Jamie xx, Caribou, Lone and Illum Sphere. The event was streamed by Boiler Room.
The first seven remixes were released as 12-inch vinyl singles through XL Recordings. The eighth single was finished too late for inclusion on TKOL RMX and was released as a download. A remix of "Bloom" by Jamie xx, previously released on the TKOL RMX8 single, was released as a vinyl single on 23 January 2012.
Single Tracks remixed Remix Peak chart positions Release UKSalesPeaks on the UK Physical Singles Chart:
TKOL RMX1: TKOL RMX2: TKOL RMX3: TKOL RMX4: TKOL RMX5: TKOL RMX6: TKOL RMX7: TKOL RMX8: USDance USSalesTKOL RMX1"Little by Little"Caribou RMX 3 2 84 July 2011"Lotus Flower"Jacques Greene RMXTKOL RMX2"Morning Mr Magpie"Nathan Fake RMX 4 3 1515 July 2011"Bloom"Harmonic 313 RMXMark Pritchard RMXTKOL RMX3"Feral"Lone RMX 6 6 2329 July 2011"Morning Mr Magpie"Pearson Sound Scavenger RMX"Separator"Four Tet RMXTKOL RMX4"Give Up the Ghost"Thriller Houseghost RMX 7 4 1415 August 2011"Codex"Illum Sphere RMX"Little by Little"Shed RMXTKOL RMX5"Give Up the Ghost"Brokenchord RMX 9 — —26 August 2011"TKOL"Altrice RMX"Bloom"Blawan RMXTKOL RMX6"Good Evening Mrs Magpie"Modeselektor RMX 7 5 1512 September 2011"Bloom"Objekt RMXTKOL RMX7Jamie xx Rework 6 7 1610 October 2011"Separator"Anstam RMX"Lotus Flower"SBTRKT RMXTKOL RMX8"Bloom"Jamie xx Rework Part 3 67 — —21 November 2011"Separator"Anstam RMX II"Morning Mr Magpie"Nathan Fake Harshdub RMX
Reception
TKOL RMX has an aggregate score of 67 on Metacritic, indicating "generally favourable reviews". AllMusic said it was "fascinating to hear how this current crop of producers ... twists, bends, adjusts, and appropriates the source material". The A.V. Club felt "the best of these remixes excite and innovate in ways their [King of Limbs] counterparts didn't".
The Guardian wrote that TKOL RMX "feels less like an album than an info dump" and questioned "the utility in commissioning Four Tet and Caribou to rework songs that already sound a bit like Four Tet and Caribou". Pitchfork found it "listenable but ultimately bloodless".
Track listing
Personnel Credits adapted from liner notes.
Remix and additional production Anstam Dan Snaith Nathan Fake Four Tet Jacques Greene Ryan Hunn Ernestas Kausylas David Kennedy Lone Modeselektor René Pawlowitz Mark Pritchard Jamie Roberts Mike Sadatmousavi SBTRKT Jamie Smith Darren J. Cunningham
Artwork Wildwood Twain
Charts ChartPeakpositionUK Albums Chart34Belgium Albums Top 5043Italy Albums Chart63French Albums Chart79Irish Albums Chart48Dutch Albums Chart74Swiss Music Charts95 US Billboard 20050Billboard Alternative Albums9Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums5Billboard Independent Albums8Billboard Top Rock Albums12
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