Sinopsis Brings Kooley High Back to Earth

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When the immediate sensation upon hearing a re-interpreted song or album is one of increased appreciation for the original, it might not seem like a good sign. If the updated version was so revelatory, having taken the best of the source material and only improved it from there, wouldn't it be all we could think about? Who would have time for the old, now suddenly obsolete, version anyway?

In reality, the best remixes are often those that don't obliterate the original as much as create a companion to them, opening up new veins of understanding that couldn't be tapped until the work was presented in a new light. Such is the case with Still Infinite ($10, Bandcamp), producer Sinopsis's 8-track reprise of the 2024 Kooley High album All Infinite, which pairs a flush roster of guest vocal appearances with the usual recipe of chopping and re-engineering that the NCSU alum has deployed on previous remix albums The Skywalker and Heights.Rx before it. The result is a warm, sophisticated, jazz-rap delight — less energetic, spacey and futuristic than Atlanta producer Tuamie's original, but arguably, in the hands of an in-house Kooley producer, even more like the vintage brand of K-High that fans have come to know and love.