Category: remix

New Audio: JOVM Mainstay The Offline Teams Up with Koralle on a Vibey and Laid-Back Remix of “Enfin, la paix”

Hamburg-born and-based photographer, composer Felix Müller is the creative mastermind of the JOVM mainstay cinematic soul project The Offline. The Offline was deeply inspired and informed by Müller’s travels along the Atlantic coastline of southern France with an analog camera, capturing beach life. Upon his return to Hamburg, he started writing compositions as the sonic counterpart to his visuals.

The German-born artist’s full-length debut, 2023’s Timor Litzenberg co-produced La couleur de la mer was inspired by the work of Francois de Roubaix, and saw him creating a soundtrack to an imaginary film with themes and atypical song structures. Morning from dramatic cues to fragile romanticism, the album’s material incorporated elements of psychedelia, retro soul and hip-hop — inspired by his extensive record collection.

2024’s Les Cigales saw the German-born JOVM mainstay building upon the head-nodding blend of hip-hop and 70s soul jazz that he developed on his debut with the effort’s material taking sonic cues from 1960s and 1970s film and TV scores, while nodding at Francois de Rouabix, David AxelrodSurprise Chef and Robohands.

Last year, saw Müller release the live EP, The Offline In Session, which featured live renditions of some of his previously released work including “Théme de la couleur de la mer,” and “Cap Camarat.”

Interestingly, his forthcoming effort, Révisé is reportedly a look back into his growing catalog — but this time with the hip-hop and beatmaker ramped up. The effort will feature contributions from highly sought-after producers across the global, lo-fi hip-hop scene including, Koralle, Knowsum, Jake Milliner and 53 Keys, as well as rising underground emcees like SANITY, Summer SonsTURT and Physical Graffiti.

“One of my main motivations for The Offline project was to create a modern version of television and film music from the 60s and 70s, with an analog touch reminiscent of the old funk and jazz albums that hip-hop artists used to sample,” Müller explains. “After releasing several albums an [sic] EPs, the idea arose to change perspective and look at the music from the point of view of hip-hop artists and beatmakers, leading to the remix project Révisé.”

Révisé‘s lead single, sees Müller team up with Italian producer Koralle on a remix of Le couleur de la mer album track, “Enfin, la paix.” The Koralle remix adds anecdotes a laid-back, lounge/headphone hip-hop feel with congo, boom bap beats and dub-inspired textures paired with the original’s twinkling and reverb-soaked Rhodes, Müller’s soulful and psychedelic guitar lines and sun soaked vibes. The remix is perfect for that Chill Out/Make Out/Daydream playlist you’re thinking of.

New Video: Errol Eats Everything Teams Up With Statik Selektah and Rome Streetz on a Swaggering and Soulful Remix of “Round and Round”

Errol Eats Everything is an emcee and Black entrepreneur, who’s actively trying to reshape the music landscape while enacting positive change in the community.

Last year’s self-titled album is a bold manifesto, which saw him addressing systemic injustices, personal struggle and the continuing fight for freedom and equality with the album’s material voicing the bitter frustrations of a society that routinely fails its marginalized and struggling. His work demands that listeners confront the harsh realities of their lives, and then asks them to find the strength and resilience to rise about them, proudly reaffirming hip-hop’s enduring power to educate, challenge, uplift and eventually transform.

Errol Eats Everything closed out last year with the Beyond Yonder Remixes EP. Beyond Yonder Remixes EP saw the emcee and entrepreneur collaboration with BluDon Von JoviRome StreetzPlanet AsiaBrother Ali and a lengthy list of others on a series of remixes of Errol Eats Everything LP track “Beyond Yonder.” 

The emcee and entrepreneur begins 2026 with a remix of Beyond Yonder track “Round and Round” that sees him collaborating with Rome Streez and Statik Selektah. The album version of the track features Errol Eats Everything spit bruising Kool G. Rap-like bars over a woozy, old-timey jazz sample paired with DJ Premier-like boom bap. The remix flips the song on its head while retaining its spirit: Errol Eats Everything’s bruising Kool G. Rap-like bars are placed on a cinematic, soulful production that reminds of Statik Selektah’s mind-bending work on Strong Arm Steady‘s 2012 effort Stereotype. Rome Streetz delivers a swaggering street shit verse that in my opinion helps to boldly push the song into a new stratosphere.

Directed by Coach Bombay 3000, the accompanying video for “Round and Round (Statik Selektah Remix)” features the pair driving around New York while movie-styled violence erupts around them while illustrating the essential themes and imagery at the heart of the song.

New Audio: Helsloot’s Driving Remix of ARTBAT and Sailor & I’s “Best Of Me”

Originally released back in 2005, Booka Shade vs. M.A.N.D.Y.‘s critically applauded “Body Language” quickly became an instant classic and a defining track of mid-00s club culture. Built around a tactile bass line and an elegant sense of restraint, “Body Language” captured what Berlin-based label Get Physical Music had set out to represent: music that was both physically irresistible and and emotionally nuanced. 

“Body Language” gave its name to Get Physical’s flagship compilation series, which has since become one of the label’s defining contributions to electronic music. Over more than two decades and 26 volumes, the series has been curated by DixonDJ HellWhoMadeWhoMonkey SafariFrancesco TristanoYulia Niko and founders Booka Shade, DJ T., and M.A.N.D.Y. Each edition of the compilation series has functioned as both documentation and argument, a reflection of underground currents and a projection of where club culture’s potential future. 

Dutch producer Helsloot is known across the global electronic music scene for his melodic, vocal-led sound. His collaboration with Tinlicker “Because You Move Me” has amassed over 600 million streams. He has released material through a number of electronic labels including AnjunadeepDominoThis Never Happened and Ritter Butzke. His full-length debut, last year’s Never Tried further cemented his reputation for a balancing emotional weight with dance floor precision.

Helsloot with be curating Get Physical’s Body Language, Vol. 27. Slated for a November 14, 2025 release, the 27th edition will see the rising Dutch producer bringing a contemporary perspective to the series. Last month, I wrote about the rising Dutch producer’s bold reworking on the oft-remixed “Body Language,” a take that irresistibly beckons the listener to get to that dance floor and move your ass.

The Dutch producer’s Body Language, Vol. 27 will feature, his remix of Ukrainian production duo ARTBAT‘s “Best Of Me.” Originally released back in 2020 through Get Physical’s sister label METAPHYSICAL, the melodic techno track quickly became a club anthem. In 2021, Sailor & I contributed his own, original album mix on Diving For Lost Treasure, showcasing the song’s depth as a vocal-driven track.

Helsloot’s remix places the Sailor & I vocal in a hypnotic and driving production that to my ears reminds me a bit of Tour de France-era Kraftwerk, JOVM mainstay LutchmaK and Octo Octa: layers of glistening and melodic synths are paired with a relentless motorik-like groove and crackling breakbeats. The Helsloot take is simultaneously club and late-night drive friendly without removing the emotional weight of the Sailor & I vocal.

New Video: Errol Eats Everything Teams Up with Furious Evans and Blu on a Brooding, Hard-hitting Remix of “Beyond Yonder”

Errol Eats Everything is an emcee and Black entrepreneur, who’s actively trying to reshape the music landscape while enacting positive change in the community.

Released earlier this year, his self-titled album is a bold manifesto, which seems him addressing systemic injustices, personal struggle and the continuing fight for freedom and equality with the album’s material voicing the bitter frustrations of a society that routinely fails its marginalized and struggling. His work demands listeners confront the harsh realities of their life and then asks them to find the strength and resilience to raise about them, reaffirming hip-hop’s enduring power to challenge, uplift and transform.

For a period of time, the emcee and entrepreneur stepped away from music to focus on community-building, creating solutions that have positively impacted the lives of young Black people while solidifying a hard-earned role as a visionary leader.

The Beyond Yonder Remixes EP sees Errol Eats Everything collaborating with Blu, Don Von Jovi, Rome Streetz, Planet Asia, Brother Ali and a lengthy list of others on a series of remixes of Errol Eats Everything LP track “Beyond Yonder.”

While the album version of “Beyond Yonder” sees Errol Eats Everything spitting righteously conscious bars delivered with an MF DOOM-like flow over a DJ Premier-like production featuring a lush and soulful sample paired with tweeter and woofer rattling boom bap. The Furious Evans remix of “Beyond Yonder” features Errol Eats Everything and Blu trading bars over a production that retails the tweeter and woofer rattling boom bap of the original, but places it all within a brooding It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot-era DMX-like production.

Directed and edited by Marquan Ford, the accompanying video for “Beyond Yonder (Furious Evans Remix, feat. Blu) is set in a world of sex and vampires, inspired by Blade and Vampire Tales.

New Audio: Play Paul Reimagines the Work of Beloved French film Music Composer Francis Lai

Over the course of an incredibly lengthy seven-plus decade long career, acclaimed and pioneering French film score composer Francis Lai (1932-2018)’s work spanned across and meshed several different styles and genres, including orchestral music, jazz, electronic music and avant-garde experimentation.

Throughout his career, Lai displayed an uncanny ability to anticipate technological advancements and developments in music — and to quickly adopt or adapt to them. He was among the first to embrace and incorporate electronic instruments in his compositions and arrangements as soon as they emerged, boldly pushing the boundaries of what film scores sound like. Unsurprisingly, that readiness to boldly push sonic boundaries in his work attracted filmmakers, musicians, the cognoscenti and others interested in forward-thinking work.

Among his dozens of film scores and soundtracks, his compositions for Claude Lelouch‘s films, Un homme et une femme (1966), L’Aventure c’est l’Aventure (1972) and Les Uns et les Autres (1981), as well as David Hamilton’s 1977 film Bilitis and his Golden Globe-winning and Oscar Award-winning score for Arthur Hiller‘s 1970 film Love Story are known globally — with the Love Story score being one of the more popular scores written and recorded. Unsurprisingly, Lai is one of the world’s best-selling film music composers, selling over 130 million records globally.

And although he died back in 2018, the acclaimed French film score composer’s work still remains incredibly popular. After a Paris tribute concert, the Francis Lai Orchestra embarked on a fall 2023 tour across Japan, playing shows in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya — with filmmaker Claude Lelouch attending the Nagoya show.

He has over 3 million followers on Spotify, proving that his work has managed to transcend generations while inspiring a global audience. Recently, his score for Michel Boisrond‘s 1968 film La Leçon Particulière went viral, becoming one of TikTok’s top tracks while amassing over 200 million streams on Spotify and Deezer. And adding to his reach across multiple generations, contemporary artists have remixed and reinterpreted his work.

Play Paul is French touch pioneer, making his debut in the disco house scene in the electronic production duo The Buffalo Bunch, alongside Raw Man back in the 90s. The duo quickly made a name for themselves and the attention of the acclaimed and internationally renowned duo Daft Punk with each member signing them to their respective labels — Thomas Bangalter’s Scratché and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s Crydamoure. Play Paul began to stand out on his own with an attention grabbing remix of Phoenix‘s “If I Ever Feel Better.”

By 2003, Play Paul stepped into the spotlight as a solo artist. And as a solo artist, the French tour pioneer moved towards a more underground and electronic dance music-leaning sound. He released material through prestigious labels like Gigolo Records and Kitsuné while working on remixes and reworkings, furthering establishing himself as a key figure in the global electronic music scene.

Play Paul recently contributed to a remix compilation, paying tribute to Francis Lai and his work Play It Like Francis, which was released earlier this month. His contribution to the compilation saw him tackling a Lai deep cut, Lai’s theme for Claude Lelouch’s 1978 film, Robert et Robert, “Concerto pour la fin d’un amour.”

Anchored around a looping, brooding yet breathtakingly gorgeous piano figure and a swelling string section, Lai’s “Concerto pour la fin d’un amour,” slowly builds up in intensity, evoking classic film scores — and a swooning romanticism. The Play Paul remix, manages to retain the original melody while completely reimagining it, giving it a decidedly 70s disco/glam feel, seemingly inspired by Station to Station-era Bowie. The result is a reworking that sounds as though it could have been released around the time of the original that inspired it, and subtly contemporary.

New Audio: Dutch Producer Helsloot Tackles a Beloved house Music Classic

Originally released back in 2005, Booka Shade vs. M.A.N.D.Y.‘s critically applauded “Body Language” quickly became an instant classic and a defining track of mid-00s club culture. Built around a tactile bass line and an elegant sense of restraint, “Body Language” captured what Berlin-based label Get Physical Music had set out to represent: music that was both physically irresistible and and emotionally nuanced.

“Body Language” gave its name to Get Physical’s flagship compilation series, which has since become one of the label’s defining contributions to electronic music. Over more than two decades and 26 volumes, the series has been curated by Dixon, DJ Hell, WhoMadeWho, Monkey Safari, Francesco Tristano, Yulia Niko and founders Booka Shade, DJ T., and M.A.N.D.Y. Each edition of the compilation series has functioned as both documentation and argument, a reflection of underground currents and a projection of where club culture’s potential future.

Dutch producer Helsloot is known across the global electronic music scene for his melodic, vocal-led sound. His collaboration with TinlickerBecause You Move Me” has amassed over 600 million streams. He has released material through a number of electronic labels including Anjunadeep, Domino, This Never Happened and Ritter Butzke. His full-length debut, last year’s Never Tried further cemented his reputation for a balancing emotional weight with dance floor precision.

Helsloot with be curating Get Physical’s Body Language, Vol. 27. Slated for release later this year, the 27th edition will see the rising Dutch producer bringing a contemporary perspective to the series. The compilation’s latest single sees the Dutch producer tackling the oft-remixed “Body Language.” Retaining subtle elements of the original’s taut groove, Helsloot turns that groove into a glistening and melodic synth-driven melody and pairs it with a hypnotic, motorik-like groove, which gives the Dutch producer’s take on the song a trance-inducing yet introspective feel that irresistibility beckons the listener to move.

“I know this track has been remixed a lot so I said to myself ‘challenge accepted’. My vision was to make a full chord melody out of the iconic bassline that slowly evolves into the original,” Helsloot says of his remix.

New Audio: Danny Waters Shares a Euphoric Remix of Volgin and Ertan Koculu’s “I Wanna”

Danny Waters is a Portuguese DJ, producer and founder and label head of Sonic Frequency Records. As a DJ and producer, Waters has crafted material across a wide range of electronic music genres and subgenres including house, deep house, deep tech, tech house, progressive house and techno — with a deep interest in protest and probing social questions.

Waters recently shared a remix of Ertan Koculu and Volgin’s “I Wanna,” turning a woozy, Ibiza-tinged deep house banger into a euphoric, tribal house-meets-Larry Levan banger that retains the summery, dance all night vibe of the original. House music all night long, y’all.

New Audio: LCD Soundsystem and Tom Sharkett Share a Lovingly Club Friendly Edit of “Home”

Back in 2010, LCD Soundsystem released their critically applauded third album This Is Happening, an album that landed on the Best Of lists of countless publications and blogs across the world.

Tom Sharkett is an acclaimed Manchester, UK-based producer, engineer, remixer, songwriter and sound designer, who has released an array of music that has landed on the UK Album Charts while receiving airplay from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music and KEXP. His work has been featured in publications on both side of the pond, including The Guardian, Stereogum, Loud and Quiet and others. But Sharkett may be best known for being a member of Manchester-based dance punks W.H. Lung and the touring band for Julie Byrne.

Quietly, Sharkett released an edit of This Is Happening album closer “Home,” creating a thumping, deep house-meets –Echoes-era The Rapture/early DFA Records-meets ambient dream pop take on the song — purely out of love for song and for the band. Initially sitting online unnoticed, Sharkett’s edit caught the attention of NTS Radio Breakfast Show DJ Flo Dill, who played the track twice in one show.

Eventually, the Sharkett edit caught the attention of the members of the acclaimed band, worming its way into their hearts. So, they felt there was only one thing they could do — bless it with an official release digitally on all the DSPs and on 12″ vinyl.

New Audio: The KVB’s Coldwave Remix of A Place to Bury Strangers’ “Bad Idea”

New York-based JOVM mainstays A Place to Bury Strangers — currently Oliver Ackermann (vocals, guitar), John Fedowitz (bass) and Sandra Fedowitz (drums) — released their seventh album Synthesizer last year.

While Synthesizer is the album’s title, it’s also a physical entity, a synthesizer specifically made for the album — and a synthesizer that you too, can own (in part), if you buy the record on vinyl. The album’s cover art doubles as a circuit board and functional synth for curious and enterprising fans. “It’s pretty messed up, chaotic. But it feels really human,” the band’s Oliver Ackermann says. 

In an era of making music where so little is DIY and so much is left up to AI, never setting foot in a practice room or a home studio, making something that feels deliberately chaotic, messy, and human, is entirely the point. The album celebrates sounds that are spontaneous and natural, the kind of music that can only come from collaboration and community. 

The writing sessions for Synthesizer started in the band’s Queens studio, shortly after the release of 2022’s See Through You. The band’s new lineup which features Ackermann and his friends John and Sandra Fedowitz was especially inspiring for Ackermann. “It felt like a fresh new thing,” he says. “I wanted to write songs everyone was excited about playing.” 

The album captures the band at a place of reinvention, where they take a carefully honed sound and approach and crack it wide open to gut its then reimagine it. And of course, to ever so slightly reinvent one’s sound, one must also built a new instrument — the synthesizer at the core of the album’s overall sound. 

Synthesizer is arguably one of the band’s most live-sounding albums to date, accurately capturing the rawness and explosiveness of the band in a live setting, which is a fitting for a band that is best in a live setting, where the material takes on a new energy in the presence of a crowd. “We’re artists,” Ackermann says, “Going to shows and bringing that imperfect and beautiful DIY ethos is important.” 

Album single “Bad Idea” is anchored around a simple yet hypnotically looping drum beat, woozily oscillating feedback-driven guitar lines. John Fedowitz’s plaintive yet punchy delivery weaves in and out of the stormy and soundscape, which helps to evoke the vacillating, almost nauseating unease of self-doubt. 

“Bad Idea” showcases the raw creativity of the band’s bassist John Fedowitz. “He came to the studio with a simple looping drum beat, thinking he didn’t have any good ideas — thus, this song was his ‘bad idea,’” the band’s frontman Oliver Ackermann says. “We each penned some lines on paper, and he sang the ones that resonated. After a few instrumental passes, the recording was complete. The result is an innovative track born from spontaneous collaboration and a touch of self-doubt, turned into something uniquely captivating.” 

Manchester, UK-based JOVM mainstays The KVB gave “Bad Idea” the remix treatment, turning the woozy chaos of the original into a brooding and hypnotic bit of coldwave that channels Depeche Mode, John Carpenter soundtracks and the like while being simultaneously headphone and dance floor friendly.

New Audio: Anil Shares Goth Interpretation of Emily Dickinson

Anil is an İzmir, Turkey-based singer/songwriter, producer, author and literary translator. He recently created a song around Emily Dickinson‘s “A Wounded Deer — Leaps Highest.”

The club rocking, industrial goth remix of the original mischievously reveals that Dickinson might have been a modern day goth.

New Video: Rhythm Scholar Shares Dizzying Remix of The Rolling Stones’ “Miss You”

Over the bulk of this site’s 15 — yes, 15! — year history, I’ve spilled a lot of virtual ink covering the ridiculously prolific New York-based producer, DJ, remixer and JOVM mainstay Rhythm Scholar. During that period, the long-time JOVM mainstay has carefully built up a national and international profile for crafting slickly produced, crowd-pleasing mashups and remixes of some of the most beloved songs ever written and recorded.

The JOVM mainstay recently tackled one of my favorite Rolling Stones tunes ever 1978’s “Miss You.” The song and its accompanying visual uses over dizzying array of 125 audio and video sources, including the deep catalog of Rolling Stone tunes, funk, disco and more. The result is a thrilling, dance floor friendly re-imagining of a deeply familiar and beloved song that gives it a completely new life while lovingly hewing to the period that it originally came from.

New Audio: Trentemøller’s Hard-hitting Remix of A Place to Bury Strangers’ “Fear of Transformation”

Late last year, New York-based JOVM mainstays A Place to Bury Strangers — currently Oliver Ackermann (vocals, guitar), John Fedowitz (bass) and Sandra Fedowitz (drums) — released their seventh album Synthesizer through Dedstrange

While Synthesizer is the album’s title, it’s also a physical entity, a synthesizer specifically made for the album — and a synthesizer that you too, can own (in part), if you buy the record on vinyl. The album’s cover art doubles as a circuit board and functional synth for curious and enterprising fans. “It’s pretty messed up, chaotic. But it feels really human,” the band’s Oliver Ackermann says. 

In an era of making music where so little is DIY and so much is left up to AI, never setting foot in a practice room or a home studio, making something that feels deliberately chaotic, messy, and human, is entirely the point. The album celebrates sounds that are spontaneous and natural, the kind of music that can only come from collaboration and community. 

The writing sessions for Synthesizer started in the band’s Queens studio, shortly after the release of 2022’s See Through You. The new lineup which featured Ackermann and his friends John and Sandra Fedowitz was especially inspiring for Ackermann. “It felt like a fresh new thing,” he says. “I wanted to write songs everyone was excited about playing.” 

The album captures the band at a place of reinvention, where they take a carefully honed sound and approach and crack it wide open to gut its then reimagine it. And of course, to ever so slightly reinvent one’s sound, one must also built a new instrument — the synthesizer at the core of the album’s overall sound. 

Synthesizer may arguably be one of the band’s most live-sounding albums to date, accurately capturing the rawness and explosiveness of the band in a live setting, which is a fitting for a band that is best in a live setting, where the material takes on a new energy in the presence of a crowd. “We’re artists,” Ackermann says, “Going to shows and bringing that imperfect and beautiful DIY ethos is important.” 

Album single “Fear Of Transformation” is a snarling and scuzzy New Wave/goth punk synth-driven ripper featuring layers of oscillating synths, a relentless motorik groove, explosive bursts of feedback paired with the band’s long-held penchant for rousingly anthemic, mosh pit friendly hooks and Ackermann’s punchy delivery. 

Thematically, the track focuses and delves into the struggle of overcoming internal barriers. As the band’s frontman Oliver Ackermann explains, “Sometimes fear builds up and pins you in a cage. A conversation occurs in my head where I have to convince myself to just fucking do something to break out of it.” The song embodies that internal dialogue, capturing the battle between the compulsion to avoid fear and the push to confront it. And as a result, the song is a raw, uneasy and intense conversation with the devil within.

Acclaimed Danish producer and multi-instrumentalist Trentemøller recently gave “Fear of Transformation,” the remix treatment. The Trentemøller remix adds harder, big beat era-like beats, which manages to add an even darker, industrial electronica-like feel to song. The thematic conversation with the devil at the core of the song has much higher stakes: Damnation and destruction or salvation, which will you choose?

New Audio: Yul Shares Subtle Yet Brooding Remix of Sylvain Hellio’s “Nous étions heureux”

Sylvan Hellio is a Rennes, France-based artist, who released his debut EP, L’homme du bois through Résiste Records back in 2023. The EP featured “Nous étion heuruex,” a broodingly atmospheric trip hop-like lullaby anchored around twinkling guitar and skittering beats and Hellio’s dreamy delivery.

Yul recently remixed “Nous étions heureux,” but his remix manages to be subtle: Yul retains Hellio’s dreamy delivery and much of the original production but the brooding air is emphasized through the addition of a supple bass line, and bit of 808 kick. The result is a remix that feels a bit murkier and eerier.

New Audio: Parra for Cuva’s Chilled Out Remix of Christian Löffler’s “A Life”

Christian Löffler is an acclaimed German musician, producer and DJ, whose work is widely celebrated across electronic music circles for a distinct sound that seamlessly blends elements of ambient music, techno and house. 

Released earlier this year, Löffler’s third album A Life sees the German-born musician, producer and DJ continuing to push his sound and approach in new directions while exploring new emotional depths. The album features “Y,” a lush and flirty, crowd pleasing banger featuring Mogli‘s yearning delivery paired with woozy and glistening synth arpeggios, thumping tweeter and woofer rattling low end, skittering beats and a rousingly anthemic, euphoric set of hooks and choruses.

Album single and album title track “A Life” is a lush electro pop tune featuring bursts of twinkling piano, glistening Giorgio Moroder-like oscillations that slowly boil dup in intensity, skittering beats paired with a yearning cooing vocal sample that’s chopped up and pitched down. The result is a song that’s mediative and cinematic yet intimate.

Recently Parra for Cuva remixed “A Life.” The Parra for Cuva remix retains the yearning and cooing vocal sample but places it within an lush and soulful production that pairs squiggling, reverb-soaked The Edge-like guitars, skittering beats and woozy synth oscillations. Sonically bringing Washed Out and Brothertiger to mind, the Parra for Cuva remix retains the original’s intimate feel but while giving it a moody, chilled out vibe.