Ask me what I did with my life ? … Well, I reviewed the original club mix of Duke Dumont’s ‘I Got You’ here on these pages some months ago and said I was looking forward to hearing the full remix package and here it is. Twice.
‘I Got You’ resurfaces with not one but two sets of shiny bright remixes. Tensnake, High Contrast and V4 take care of Part 1 whilst MK, Bondax and Jonas Rathman take care of business in a fine style on Part 2. Tensnake take the prize for the obvious club banger, since it bobs, ducks and weaves around the gorgeous vocal and pianos in a built and stacked arrangement that just keeps on giving. High Contrast has a cinematic sweep and ceilidh sounding tablas that makes me want to put on a kilt, wave around a massive studded club and rave Highlander style. The V4 club mix is an CIA strength earworm that works the steel drums in such a way that you NEED to hear it played incessantly and preferably at least a million times in London, in the sunshine on a carnival soundsystem.
Moving swiftly along to Part 2, MK steps up to the power players plate with an uplifting, rocking remix that drives the point home via rolling hollow beats, Gattling gun snares, snipped vocals that excite the background and pepper the foreground and a feelgood, feel-up vibe that gets better with each play. Jax’s vocal still reminds me of a young Whitney Houston and it swirls as smoothly around your head as a double scoop Haagen Dazs melts in your mouth on a summer day. The Bondax remix is lighter, more airy and takes the Daft Punk / Nile Rodgers strummed, filtered guitar route to future disco glory. If you like artists like Sampha, SBTRKT, Kwabs or Lil Silva then the Jonas Rathman remix will touch you in places that you thought music couldn’t possibly touch. ‘Only you’ chalks up another fine ’Now That’s What I Call Music 87’ placed chart hit for Duke Dumont but with huge club respect running through it like a stick of dancefloor dynamite.
5/5
Reviewed By Paulette
