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Adventure Club Ft. Yuna - Gold (Nebbra Remix)

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Nebbra is back in the game, and big time! This one is especially exciting because it’s a remix of a song that’s perhaps a year old. Paradoxically, It’s refreshing to hear old tracks being re-amped by the remix community. First thing first: this remix marks a new era in Nebbra’s musical career; this is the beginning of a new style, a new flavor, a reinvention of sorts if you will. Why so? The answer is a combination of several factors. For starters, the original track is by Adventure Club, which unlike other artists Nebbra has remixed in the past, is more electro-heavy with clear dubstep influences and faster tempos overall. This background added to the vocals by featuring artist Yuna, gave Nebbra the push needed to create a track with clearly redefined stylistic choices that fall more in line with what newer generation producers like Cosmos Midnight and Cln are doing. These are electronic remixes that focus on short-length vocal sampling and are heavy on percussion elements. The ...

Indian Summer - Foreign Formula (Cosmos Midnight Remix)

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For the last couple of days, I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea behind trends. What exactly are they, and what power do they have over both our quotidian and transcendental experiences. Clearly a hard question to answer in an electronic music website post, but hey, we do after all rely heavily on trends to reach out to people, the sole foundation of this website is dedicated to trends, specifically the remixing trend. So for the music history lesson of the day here’s a little wiki segment about THE REMIX: Modern remixing had its roots in the dance hall culture of late-1960s/early-1970s  Jamaica . The fluid evolution of music that encompassed  ska ,  rocksteady , reggae  and  dub  was embraced by local music mixers who deconstructed and rebuilt  tracks  to suit the tastes of their audience. Producers and engineers like Ruddy Redwood,  King Tubby  and  Lee "Scratch" Perry  popularized stripped-down  instrumental  m...