Host Bodies Share Daily Apparatus 10 Year Remixes

Ten years after the release of their debut album Daily Apparatus, San Francisco live electronic duo Host Bodies return to the record with fresh ears and an expanded creative community. While it never topped any charts in 2016, now Daily Apparatus: 10 Year Remixes reimagines the original album through the perspectives of ten Bay Area and Los Angeles artists, transforming a cult favourite into a sprawling celebration of collaboration, experimentation, and artistic evolution.

The thirteen remixes show how creativity sparks new creativity, especially in the community of genre-defying electronic music from which Host Bodies was born. Music does have the right to children and some of them are mutants and freaks and shamans. All of them are dancing.

The collection spans thirteen remixes from ten artists, each bringing a distinct perspective to the source material. Across the album, listeners will encounter melodic house, cinematic techno, Balearic grooves, downtempo soundscapes, hip-hop, synth-pop, indie electronic textures, and entirely new sonic directions that often push far beyond the boundaries of the originals.

All ten remix artists—Thoma, Chroma Sea, Mark Farry, Soul Glitch, Vice Reine, Jaya Leigh, Shipwreck Detective, Idea Unsound, TRADEMARX, and Brushed Evergreen—delivered surprises. Styles range from melodic house and techno to balearic dance, downtempo, and hip-hop. Rapper & singer, Jaya Leigh, deserves a special shout-out, making her debut with a banger version of You Are Not Like Them. Host Bodies founders, James Collector & Nick Hess (AKA Swoop & Shred) revisited three tracks, crystallizing their earlier work into emotive grooves. Amidst a culture obsessed with newness, there’s a gem-like paradox in retrospection.

Rather than serving as a simple remix package, Daily Apparatus: 10 Year Remixes functions as a snapshot of the creative ecosystem surrounding Host Bodies. Many of the contributors are longtime collaborators, friends, and fellow travellers within the Bay Area electronic scene, resulting in a project that feels less like a reunion and more like an ongoing conversation between artists.

Among the standout contributions is Soul Glitch’s reimagining of “On A Roll”. The solo project of saxophonist and artistic technologist Nicholas Hasty, Soul Glitch slows the original’s momentum into a deeper groove while weaving saxophone, flute, and atmospheric electronic textures into the arrangement. The result is a lush reinvention that highlights both the emotional core of the original and Hasty’s distinctive sonic identity.

Elsewhere, Vice Reine, the San Francisco synth-pop duo of Remi X and E-rich, transform
“Towards” into a glittering collision of melodic techno and surrealist pop. Drawing from an unreleased demo hidden away in their archives, the pair fused old and new ideas into a remix that feels simultaneously nostalgic and futuristic.

Chroma Sea, another fixture of San Francisco’s live electronic community, takes “City” into dreamlike territory. What began as a warehouse-ready dance track evolved into a submerged trip-hop landscape of washed-out guitars, bright synths, and foggy percussion, evoking the feeling of drifting through an underwater world.

Singer and rapper Jaya Leigh brings an entirely new perspective to “You Are Not Like Them”, injecting the track with uplifting rhymes, infectious grooves, and a vibrant sense of personality. Her remix marks her streaming debut and stands as one of the collection’s most transformative reinterpretations.

Bay Area producer Idea Unsound approaches “City” from another angle altogether, creating a cinematic electronic journey that merges elements of dubstep, film scoring, UK bass music, and hard techno through an expansive production built from more than fifty individual tracks and an arsenal of software and hardware instruments.

The collection also sees Host Bodies themselves revisiting their own catalogue. Under the aliases Swoop and Shred, founders James Collector and Nick Hess return to three songs from the original album, not to recreate them, but to explore what a decade of growth has revealed about the music they first made together.

As Host Bodies prepare a series of campaigns spotlighting individual remixes and the artists behind them, Daily Apparatus: 10 Year Remixes stands as a testament to the enduring life of creative work. Some albums fade away. Others continue evolving through the people they inspire.

Ten years later, Daily Apparatus is still moving. It just sounds different now.