In that way, the remix album has been more than a one-off project in between bigger releases for the Houston-born, globally inspired funk-rock band, which has seen its audience grow each year since the trio of Johnson, Mark Speer (guitar) and Laura Lee (bass/vocals) released its psychedelic, Thai-influenced debut, The Universe Smiles Upon You, in 2015. The remix record has proved to be instructive live, including on the band’s current tour, which stops at Express Live on Saturday, Dec. And then we flipped the switch on that, and it's like, oh, here it is.” “We were playing it the way it is on the record when we did our first run of shows, and it just wasn't landing like we thought it should. “We get this banging remix that's just four to the floor, and it's like, oh, that's what I should be playing,” Johnson said. Then in August, the band released Mordechai Remixes, which features a reworked version of “Pelota” courtesy of Quantic. “The kick pattern changes from section to section, and there's more accents here and there,” Johnson said. When Khruangbin was making its 2020 album, Mordechai, drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson created an intricate drum part for the song “Pelota.”
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