Of course, it is entirely fitting that music by Onetwo be remixed, and remixed with vision. Both members – PHone and CBtwo, remember, also known as CBone and PHtwo – were members of groups that in the well known 80s – the decade tucked between the 70s and the 90s, remember – were ahead of the game when it came to their big time, big feeling, big melodic, big cryptic pop music being remixed so that one song was becoming many songs. 7” sized songs were wrapped around the mixing desks of sympathetic minds and transformed into pieces that both resembled and did not resemble the 7” songs, and often laid out over the vast, wide grooved expanse of a 12”, where the drums became the lead instruments, and voices were just part of the general noise of things.

As time passed, and we entered the CD era, with some sadness but also a lot of excitement, these remixed tracks would take the form of extra tracks, tracks that were previously known as B-sides. Of course, CDs only had one side, and so these tracks were not as such B-sides, they merely formed that function.

The remix. Time got messed with, rhythms were rewired, sound was shuffled, one song could become many. And here we are in the 21st century – the one that follows the 20th, remember – and Onetwo release a CD single, little pack, a small treat, a dainty dish of songs taken from their Instead album and gently and/or roughly and/or imaginatively turned into other songs that come close to being the original song yet with a taint of not being the original song at all.

This CD single, this group of tracks, remixed and/or not, features Onetwo’s main man engineer Bob Kraushaar moving Blank and Jones Radio Edit of ‘Cloud Nine’ three stages forward and one and half dimensions across. This is as such the single mix. The Instead mix of ‘Cloud Nine’ is exactly what it says on the label, the mix of ‘Cloud Nine’ as it exists on the ‘Instead’ album, which makes it the album mix of ‘Cloud Nine’, faithful to itself, relatively speaking.

Extra tracks, sort of the B-sides, then follow. SITD, who can be described as electro-nodes, from Germany, from another time and place tantalisingly resembling this one, have pulled ‘Kein Anschluß’, from ‘Instead’, toward their time and place, as if they are the only unit/project/item technicians alive who can pull Onetwo’s ‘Kein Anschluß’ toward their time and place. They do this madly and beautifully in the remix tradition which now stretches back, oh, thirty some years, with an understanding that this is a tradition that will last for at least, oh, another thirty some years. The fourth song turned from album to elsewhere is ‘Home [Tonight]’ and it’s the Manhattan Clique remix. Manhattan Clique work with Onetwo on their live shows, and their remixing experience with the likes of Moby, Goldfrapp, Andy Bell and Fischerspooner made them perfect candidates to turn ‘Instead’s ‘Home’ into some other kind of ‘Home’, a ‘Home’ situated close and yet round the corner and over the bridge from the original ‘Home’.

There you have it. Onetwo, remixed. ‘Cloud Nine’ the single, with extra tracks. The song as was coupled with the song as it has become with added songs turned around in time and space.

Another great Onetwo item. ‘You might as well keep collecting’…