Renowned for their distinctive signature works and multi-disciplinary collaborations, Aria-nominated Topology are set to revisit their house concert beginnings with the release of Tortured Remixes, a new full-length mixtape album to be launched at Vulcana Women’s Circus for Anywhere Theatre Festival 2017.

Celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, the 1990s saw Brisbane come to know Topology through both their original compositions as well as their adventurous re-imaginings of popular music. Topology’s energetic performances broke down music genre boundaries, injecting elements of chamber music, pop, jazz, electronica, orchestral and progressive rock into their distinctive sound. Performing in small bars, backyards and lounge rooms, the quintet flourished in the then underground new music scene.

Tortured Remixes sees popular melodies filtered through the creative minds of Topology’s composers – John Babbage, Robert Davidson and Bernard Hoey. The result is familiar tunes stretched, bent, scrambled and “tortured” (almost) beyond recognition, then reassembled into adventurous new works where iconic bass lines inspire complex arrangements, well-known solos are expanded into full-length chamber pieces, and more.

Featuring tortured reconstructions of The Saints, MC Hammer, The Beatles, Stevie Wright, Beyoncé, Cold Chisel and many more, Tortured Remixes is a mixtape celebrating the 60s to the present like you’ve never heard them before. But for now its to their own Tortured Remixes that all ears turn. Catch Topology transforming pop anthems into poignant, lush orchestrations.