TOTAL RECONSTRUCTION

The idea of doing a remix album was spawned at an early stage in the band's existence. Carefully selected artists were invited to use V:28 source material to make their own interpretation of a chosen track. Not only does this release mark the end of the band, but it also showcases the experimental side of the band and much of what has been a great source of inspiration for the cinematic and apocalyptic sound of V:28.

With the founding member of V:28 being a huge fan of CMI and with many CMI acts covering the V:28 tracks in fantastic new versions there was no discussion which label would be more suited releasing this obscure sampler than Cold Meat Industry.

Release date: September 20th 2008
Label: Cold Meat Industry

Tracklist:
        01.
Nordvargr - Desert Generator Hell
        02. Beyond Sensory Experience - Pattern Of The Weak (remix)
        03. Megaptera - Infected By Life (rmx 33 rpm LP-version)
        04. Manes - Absolute Nothing (Manes redux)
        05. des Esseintes - To Be Detuned
        06. Lrz - Surrender To Oblivion (dark resonance mix)
        07. Thrawn Hellspawn - When Entropy Is Thwarted
        08. Shinjuku Thief / EPA - Solid Structure: Undone
        09. Desiderii Marginis - Dead Men's Choir (remix)
        10. Origami Galaktika - Towards The Sun, Swansong (Zero Nothing remixed)
        11. V:28 featuring Coph Nia - All Lined Up (Swans cover)
        12. V:28 - One Last Breath (Bleak cover)

Comments from the featured artists:

I know this sounds strange coming from me, being one of the most active composers in the scene, but I have had a really inactive year. As spring approached I felt more drawn to the world of images and art, and my creative music flow was drained. However, when I received the material to remix from Kristoffer the inspiration came back. The track I remixed is a majestic interpretation of "Desert Generator", filtered through a vortex of infernal machinery and delivered from a womb of disease. Let this be a lesson in how to reach inside you to find salvation in nothing. Amen.
Nordvargr

Megaptera is back for a very brief visit. This time to do a remix for V:28. It's not easy to just crawl back up from the abyss and get everything going again, so we used the classic Megaptera track "More Disturbance" as the basis for the remix: Slow escalating ambient sounds and slow pounding drums, adding faster and harder beats at the end.
Peter Nyström (Megaptera)
 
to work with artists sharing much of the same philosophy and thoughts as yourself, both regarding music, and life in general, is always very inspiring and motivating. so, when christ-offer (heh), a long-term  connection, asked if i were interested in doing a re-interpretation for this remix collection, i gladly jumped at the opportunity... always on the lookout for new things, other perspectives, different expectations... when working with it, the motivation, the driving force was mainly the old alchemical motto 'solve et coagula', to dissolve and coagulate, to separate and join together, the breaking down of elements, and their coming together, in the process of transmuting base metal into gold, or arriving at the philosopher's stone). at the same time i decided on a few words to stick to through the process (as i often do, to have some kind of direction or goal): black, empty, hopeless... the 'gold' that i wanted to arrive at... so i abandoned the original version, started working with the source material i were given, the samples, the unconnected separate tracks, to make something else out of it, cut it in pieces, reassemble, whatever came to mind, not constraining any idea or impulse. a sketch. then repeating this process a few times, breaking things down to their basic elements, and rebuilding something else. and it surely resulted in something a bit different from the original, didn't it?
th cern skei (Manes) 

As an artist I enjoy those times I get invited to unexcpected projects, as this V:28 remix record. This allows me to play around with sounds I would most likely not end up making myself... I have not listened to the original version of this piece before making the remix. The result I must say I find enjoyable... Hope you like it too... 
b
9 (Origami Galaktika)

the pattern of the weak: paralysed beyond future sensory dimensions. satan, experience evolution.
Beyond Sensory Experience