New Audio: Indonesia’s Bottlesmoker Shares a Tribal and Urgent Remix of Rome in Reverse’s “Here it’s all over”

Antonella Pacifico is an Italian-born, Copenhagen-based, self-taught musician and producer, whose career started in earnest with a stint in a Rome-based post rock outfit. Pacifico relocated to Copenhagen to focus on solo music production — and in 2014 her own project, Rome in Reverse, which sees her crafting a sound with elements of melted club dance music, blissed-out trance techno, ambient dub and dreamy trip hop driven by thumping electronic beats.

Released earlier this year, “Here it’s all over” is a slow-burning and melancholy track built around glistening and atmospheric synths, skittering tweeter and woofer rattling thump paired with Pacifico’s yearning delivery. Last year, Pacifico toured Southeastern Asia and discovered rising Indonesian electronic music production duo Bottlesmoker.

Bottlesmoker — Angry and Noble — have created a unique, crowd-pleasing sound and approach that meshes elements of tribal beats, psychedelic vibes and pop. The Indoneisan duo have opened for an eclectic array of internationally acclaimed acts including Ladytron, Architecture in Helsinki, Porter Robinson, Tycho, M83, and Battles. They’ve also played sets across the global festival circuit with stops at Laneway Festival, Big Mountain Music Festival, Zandari Festa and others.

Pacifico was captivated by their exceptional talent and was seeking a collaborator, who could truly connect with the emotion at the core of “Here it’s all over” — and she recruited Bottlesmoker. Bottlesmoker’s remix of “Here it’s all over” pairs Pacifico’s yearning delivery in a hallucinogenic and hazy production featuring layers of tribal beats and glistening synth oscillations, giving the yearning at the core of the song a forceful immediacy.