Vicetone - Nevada (Drum & Bass Mix)

Nevada soundtracked roughly ten thousand gaming montages back in 2016, so a drum and bass remix of it could easily have been a lazy nostalgia cash-in. This lands on the smart side instead. Speeding the vocal up and dropping it onto a rolling break gives that impossibly catchy chorus somewhere new to go, and it turns out the melody was always built for more tempo than the original ever gave it. The drop at 1:30 hits harder than the four-on-the-floor version did, because the breakbeat lends it a forward motion the older arrangement never had. It’s cheesy, obviously; Nevada was always cheese, gloriously so, and putting it at DnB tempo just makes it a better party. I caught myself grinning by the second chorus and stopped fighting it. Sometimes the obvious remix is the right one, the idea so on-the-nose that nobody bothered until someone finally did it properly. This is one of those.

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