D.O.D & Hayley May - Closure (Friction Remix)

The bassline Friction drops at 1:38 here is so simple it’s almost rude: three notes, rolling, no ornamentation, doing more than most producers manage with a full rack of plugins. Closure started life as a housier D.O.D record with Hayley May floating over the top, and Friction’s remix drags it into drum and bass without losing the ache in her vocal. That’s the trick. DnB remixes of emotional vocal tracks usually flatten the feeling into pure energy, but this one keeps the sadness and just gives it a faster pulse. Hayley’s chorus hitting over that half-time-into-full breakbeat is genuinely lovely, the sort of moment that works at a festival at 2pm and alone in headphones at 2am, which is a wider range than it has any right to cover. Friction has been doing this for twenty years and still knows exactly where to leave the space. Reliable in the best possible sense of the word.

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