TKOL RMX 1234567


TKOL RMX 1234567 is a remix album of songs from the album The King of Limbs by the English rock band Radiohead. It was released on 16 September 2011 in Japan and on 10 October 2011 internationally by XL Recordings. The album compiles a series of King of Limbs remix singles by electronic music artists including Jamie xx, Nathan Fake, Four Tet, Caribou, Modeselektor and SBTRKT. The album and singles were also released as downloads through Radiohead's website.

Singles

On 6 June 2011, Radiohead announced a series of remix singles from The King of Limbs by various artists. Drummer Philip Selway told BBC 6 Music he felt The King of Limbs was the Radiohead album that lent itself best to remixing. Singer Thom Yorke said the band wanted to experiment with the music further by giving it to remixers, and liked the idea that it was not "fixed and set in stone".
The first seven remixes were released as either double or triple A-sides on 12-inch vinyl singles through XL Recordings on Radiohead's Ticker Tape Ltd. imprint label, and are compiled on TKOL RMX 1234567. The eighth single, TKOL RMX8, was finished too late for inclusion on the album and was released as a download. A remix of "Bloom" by Jamie xx, previously released on the TKOL RMX8 single, was released as a vinyl single on 23 January 2012.
SingleTracks remixedRemixUK Physical Sales
Chart Peaks		Release date
TKOL RMX1"Little by Little"Caribou RMX3
4 July 2011
TKOL RMX1"Lotus Flower"Jacques Greene RMX3
4 July 2011
TKOL RMX2"Morning Mr Magpie"Nathan Fake RMX4
15 July 2011
TKOL RMX2"Bloom"Harmonic 313 RMX4
15 July 2011
TKOL RMX2"Bloom"Mark Pritchard RMX4
15 July 2011
TKOL RMX3"Feral"Lone RMX6
29 July 2011
TKOL RMX3"Morning Mr Magpie"Pearson Sound Scavenger RMX6
29 July 2011
TKOL RMX3"Separator"Four Tet RMX6
29 July 2011
TKOL RMX4"Give Up the Ghost"Thriller Houseghost RMX7
15 August 2011
TKOL RMX4"Codex"Illum Sphere RMX7
15 August 2011
TKOL RMX4"Little by Little"Shed RMX7
15 August 2011
TKOL RMX5"Give Up the GhostBrokenchord RMX9
26 August 2011
TKOL RMX5"TKOL"Altrice RMX9
26 August 2011
TKOL RMX5"Bloom"Blawan RMX9
26 August 2011
TKOL RMX6"Good Evening Mrs Magpie"Modeselektor RMX7
12 September 2011
TKOL RMX6"Bloom"Objekt RMX7
12 September 2011
TKOL RMX7"Bloom"Jamie xx Rework6
10 October 2011
TKOL RMX7"Separator"Anstam RMX6
10 October 2011
TKOL RMX7"Lotus Flower"SBTRKT RMX6
10 October 2011
TKOL RMX8"Bloom"Jamie xx Rework Part 367
18 November 2011
TKOL RMX8"Separator"Anstam RMX II67
18 November 2011
TKOL RMX8"Morning Mr Magpie"Nathan Fake Harshdub RMX67
18 November 2011

Release

TKOL RMX was released as a download on Radiohead's website in MP3 and WAV formats. The retail version was released on 16 September 2011 in Japan and 10 October in other countries. Radiohead celebrated the release with a live event at London's Corsica Studios on 11 October, with DJs including Yorke and contributing remix artists Jamie xx, Caribou, Lone and Illum Sphere. The event was streamed by Boiler Room.
TKOL RMX reached number five on the US Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart.

Critical reception

TKOL RMX has an aggregate score of 67 on Metacritic. AllMusic said it was "fascinating to hear how this current crop of producers... twists, bends, adjusts, and appropriates the source material." The A.V. Club felt "the best of these remixes excite and innovate in ways their counterparts didn't." However, the Guardian wrote that the album "feels less like an album than an info dump" and questioned "the utility in commissioning Four Tet and Caribou to rework songs that already sound a bit like Four Tet and Caribou". Pitchfork found it "listenable but ultimately bloodless".

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.
Remix and additional production
Artwork