Twin freaks – twin freaks (Paul McCartney remixed by the Freelance Hellraiser)

Two years ago I stumbled across a song called ‘A stroke of genius’. This was indeed a pun because the track was an almost unbelievable sound illusion., It consisted of an instrumental part from a punk rock tune by the Strokes, with accapella vocals overlayed from Christina Aguilera’s ‘Genie in a bottle’. The strange sound marriage worked so well that the track became a hit. The mastermind behind this called himself the Freelance Hellraiser. I emailed him and he sent me some of his demo mixes in the post.

Then in 2004 the Freelance Hellraiser joined Paul McCartney on his European tour, Djing 25 minute opening sets before each performance. The last date was Glastonbury where Paul did a headline performance. At the time he said: "There is such an amazing album to be made of some of Paul's unknown tracks from the late Seventies and early Eighties. He was doing some utterly cool stuff then that the young audience would lap up now". Indeed Paul also liked what the Freelance Hellraiser was doing and commissioned these bootlegs to be released.

Here then is an album of some of Paul McCartney’s best but lesser known moments, from his electro pop experiments to his psychedelic rock era with his band Wings. The album spans his career from his first solo album to the most recent, all tracks remixed by the Freelance Hellraiser. It makes for a very interesting listen, with a general feel of psychedelic rock meets funk. This is TWIN FREAKS eponymous debut album and it is released through Parlophone Records on the 13th of June.