Kevin Bronson on June 9th, 2010

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[Health’s sold-out show at the Echoplex on Tuesday night was, by all accounts, a smash. Buzz Bands LA contributor Rich Thomas posted an interview today on his Mining the Landfill:]

By Rich Thomas

A while back, I had the pleasure of spending an entire afternoon with the dudes in Health for a self-titled cover story. We drank beer, ate Mexican food, drank more beer, then bowled a few games right down the street from where I went to high school. A righteous time was had by all. (You can read about it here, if you like.) If there was one thing I learned about these guys, it’s that quality control is Job 1, and they won’t sign their name to anything they deem less than perfect. They also have Jedi powers when it comes to sniffing out the latest hot shit, which totally came out wrong but you know what I mean. It would then stand to reason that they’d have the utmost taste when handpicking tracks for their latest remix CD. (Which, of course, they did.)

“DISCO2” is already on my Best of 2010 shortlist, and for good reason. With remixes by Javelin, Tobacco, Gold Panda, Pictureplane, and longtime friends Crystal Castles, “DISCO2 is about as diverse a remix album as you can get, but it’s all painted with the same avant-garde brush that Health wield so well. Sure-handed bowler and Health guitarist Jupiter Keyes explains how it all went down, including a match-making session between the band, Trent Reznor, and famed mixer/producer Alan Moulder.

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