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Dominic Fike - Babydoll (Vanic Remix)
Read more . . . →Vanic found the ache in Babydoll and cranked it up until it’s the only thing left. Dominic Fike’s original is a woozy, sun-damaged little pop song about anxiety, and Vanic keeps the vulnerability but hangs it on a bigger frame, chopping the vocal and floating it over a beat that swells where the original just strummed. Vanic has made a career out of exactly these remixes, taking indie-leaning songs and giving them a widescreen electronic makeover without steamrolling what made them work. The trick here is restraint: he could have buried Fike under a wall of synths and instead he...
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Marshmello, Halsey - Be Kind (Surf Mesa Remix)
Surf Mesa slows Be Kind underwater and finally lets Halsey's melancholy breathe. The original never stuck with me. This one did.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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The Remix Won a Grammy and Said Nothing
Read more . . . →Gesaffelstein walked onstage at the Grammys in a black reflective mask and gloves, accepted the award for Best Remixed Recording, bowed, kissed the air, and left without saying a word. That is a better argument for the remix as art form than anything anyone has written about it. Three records from the 2026 Grammy class that prove the remix stopped being a B-side a long time ago. 1. Lady Gaga - Abracadabra (Gesaffelstein Remix) The original is a pop record on a blockbuster album. This is four minutes of Gaga’s vocal stripped to its bones and rebuilt inside pulsing darkness....
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Far East Movement & The Cataracs ft. DEV - Like A G6 (Manila Killa Remix)
Read more . . . →Okay, this one’s a genuine surprise. Manila Killa took Like A G6, the 2010 club anthem that everyone pretended to hate and secretly loved, and rebuilt it as a drum and bass track. On paper that should be a disaster. In practice it absolutely rips. The original’s hook is so embedded in a certain generation’s brain that hearing it over rolling DnB drums creates this weird time-travel feeling, like your high school memories got remastered. Manila Killa is smart about it too. He doesn’t lean entirely on nostalgia, he actually flips the energy into something that works on a current...
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