Scanner’s reworking of a track by Alan Dunn and Martyn Rainford is the latest in a series of efforts by the duo to explore the idea of “background.” The source audio for their remix is their *A History of Background* CD. This remix by Scanner is part of a dubplate made for an exhibit currently going on in Jamestown, New York, under the name Colonize. It’s a rich, constantly shifting piece, snatches of dubby static and gadgety fragments heard over a compelling electronic-tribal beat, bits of vocal tweaked and layered, filtered and muffled, until they’re just beyong ready comprehension — leaving them lingering in, as it were, the background.
Track originally posted for free download at [67projects1.bandcamp.com](http://67projects1.bandcamp.com/track/noumenon-scanner-remix). More on the originating project at [alandunn67.co.uk](http://alandunn67.co.uk/backgroundprojectpage.html). The Jamestown exhibit was funded thanks to a [kickstarter.com](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scibasecolonize/scibase-colonize) campaign. A previous remix in the series is by [Dr Cyclops](http://67projects1.bandcamp.com/track/noumenon-dr-cyclops-remix), and it is also [available for free](http://67projects1.bandcamp.com/track/noumenon-dr-cyclops-remix). Scanner promoted this on both his [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/scannerdot) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/robinrimbaud) pages, which are highly recommended.