"You're a part of me" goes one of the blurred-out lines in this re-work of Massive Attack's "Paradise Circus". It's a fitting line for a Burial remix, because everything he touches instantly becomes part of his world. His sound is so rich and distinctive that it sets a bar that imitators still can't reach. That distinctiveness could eventually be his undoing, as a lifetime of a single sound is bound to become a boring cliché. To my ears, though, it hasn't happened yet. "Paradise Circus" is a brilliant Burial piece that functions as pure aural opium, something you put on and suddenly you're floating down a river and you feel like your body has no bones. Mary Anne Hobbs' breathless voiceover at the end of this radio rip is completely over the top, but Burial has that effect on people. You don't put this stuff on to think; you wrap yourself in it and dial your brain waves down to alpha.

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[from Burial and Massive Attack's "4 Walls" b/w "Paradise Circus"; out now via Inhale Gold and the Vinyl Factory]