Vicetone - Nevada (Dubstep Remix)

Somebody took Vicetone’s “Nevada,” a track that soundtracked roughly nine thousand gaming montages back in 2016, and dragged it into a dark alley. This dubstep flip keeps Cozi Zuehlsdorff’s vocal mostly intact through the verse and then obliterates the drop, swapping the original’s shiny festival lift for a filthy half-time wobble. It shouldn’t work — the source is pure sunshine and the remix is pure grime — and yet the contrast is exactly why it does. Hearing that innocent topline lead straight into a bassline this rude is legitimately funny the first time through. The remixer resists the urge to bury the melody, so the nostalgia hit still lands a half-second before the floor gives out. I have a soft spot for edits that take a beloved song and rough it up without disrespecting it, and this one threads it. Whether it improves on the original honestly depends on how much you loved being seventeen. Either way it’s a better warm-up track than the thing it started as.

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