Spaceshokkers

I just got the "Angelius" single from Spaceshokkers (2012).  It's a little odd.  Spaceshokkers suggests that it's a collaboration between S.H.O.K.K. and DJ Space Raven, which it is.  Except, of course, that DJ Space Raven joined S.H.O.K.K. in 2008.  Now, I know that he still has his own single stuff going here and there, and I guess DJ Giotto or DJ Emergency or whatever Claudio Pettanice calls himself these days does too, although he seems to recognize that the S.H.O.K.K. name is itself a better brand.

The name seems to imply that it's Pettanice working with Perrottey the way Woodshokk was a collaboration between Pettanice as S.H.O.K.K. and Marcel Woods, but it's not, because Perrottey had already been a credited member of S.H.O.K.K. for 4-5 years.  Anyway, maybe I'm reading too much into this; a lot of electronic music "bands" play around with different names, and then remix their own work but credit it to a different name.  Kamui remixed songs by Synthflut and Virus Inc. (and vice versa) but of course, all three (and some other names besides, like Black Phaze) are just the same two guys.  The style differences between the names aren't even very different.  The same thing happened with S.O.D., P.G.L. and Russenmafia (and more names again.)  So, I guess if the guys want to play around with names, and remix their own work, and crap like that, there's nothing wrong with that.  It just seems odd.

Anyway, there are five tracks, but one of them, the Radio Mix is just a shortened version.  Two of the regular length ones are remixed by the band (the "DJ Space Raven vs S.H.O.K.K." version and the "Epic Mix."  The former seems to be the one that the band focuses on (the Radio Version is a shortened version of it, and it's appeared on a few compilations here and there),  but I like the second one better.)  And two are remixed by someone else; Swiss DJ Passion and Japanese Nish.

For fun, here's the two remixed by the band.  I'm ignoring, as usual, truncated radio mixes that don't add anything, and in fact just take away from longer, "club length" tracks.