I reviewed Etziony’s sixth album “Deliverance” a couple of months ago, calling it “an array of drama-laden electronic soundscaping full of dark symphonic chords, echoey rumbles and percussive hits, subbass groans and slow synthetic washes”.

So when a remix package arrived, I assumed it would be of tracks from that most recent album- but in fact, it’s of four tracks from his 2015 album “Avalon” instead. As for why, that’s not seemingly explained, and since that’s an album I’m not familiar with, I can only take the remixes for what they are, not how they compare to what they were before.

The first remixer Fhloston Paradigm is better known as Knig Britt, and his version of “Never Again” is a six-minute, DJ-friendly bit of atmospheric synth house with a stuttering yet steady rhythm that gives a nice bright feeling.

Any suggestion that this is going to be a 4-pack of straightforward clubby house mixes is dispelled by Alec Empire (from Atari Teenage Riot)’s dramatic and raw take on “Imperum Romanum”. Starting with cinematic percussion hits, it builds very slowly, eventually reaching an energetic bit of American-style angry rocky instrumental EDM with a decidedly sci-fi feel.

The Maps and Diagrams remix of “Nightwatcher” has a similarly filmic opening but heads in a very different direction, a lovely acid-tinged bit of ambient-meets-old-school-beatless-trance reminiscent of The Irresistible Force and really rather lovely, before Daniela Orvin’s reversion of the album’s title track is a more modern-sounding take on ambient, full of lush synths, string swells and gentle vocal noises that give a rich velvety if moderately uneventful carpet of smooth noise which, at five minutes long, feels like it could have been explored further.

It’s a nicely diverse four-pack reflecting four different styles, and as such, well suited to open-minded electronica home listeners.