Para One made a name for himself as a remixer when he turned Daft Punk’s “Prime Time of Your Life” into a peak time hit. It led to a series of commissions from people like Trabant, Vegastar, TTC’s Teki Latex or Bloc Party. Up till now, though, he never got the remix treatment himself. What better way to start than by entrusting Boys Noize and MSTRKRFT with “Dudun-Dun”, the first single off his first album Epiphanie? And what happens when one of the hardest-hitting techno tracks of the year is paired with two of the best remixers/producers in the game? Pure and utter dancefloor bedlam.
Boys Noize’s hit list reads like Billy the Kid’s in his heyday: Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, The Living Things, Tiga, The Kreeps… His reworks of John Starlight’s “Shadowbreaker” and I-Robots’ “Frau” are classics. A firm believer in the what-me-sleep? school of work ethics, he’s also recording under a host of aliases: Kid Alex, 909 D1sco, Morgentau, Puzique, EastWest and Einzeller. Boys Noize keeps the track’s basic template and makes the hard parts harder, the dark parts even darker. Then launches the rapture-inducing, blissed-out second half into disco-funk hyperspace. It’s like starting in the deepest mosh pit and rising to the top of the highest terrace of the club to watch Berlin wake up.
MSTRKRFT hail from Canada, but coming from the cold only makes them hotter. Studio wizard Al-P and Jesse F. Keeler from punk disco superstars Death From Above 1979 are responsible for turning Annie, Bloc Party, The Kills, Nine Inch Nails, Metric or Wolfmother into merciless dancefloor monsters. They applied their signature sound to “Dudun-Dun”, and the result is a ravey juggernaut of heavily compressed synths, thunderous drums and clipped vocal riffs, with a somewhat unexpected Copacabana feel. And oh, those whistles!
Boys Noize’s hit list reads like Billy the Kid’s in his heyday: Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, The Living Things, Tiga, The Kreeps… His reworks of John Starlight’s “Shadowbreaker” and I-Robots’ “Frau” are classics. A firm believer in the what-me-sleep? school of work ethics, he’s also recording under a host of aliases: Kid Alex, 909 D1sco, Morgentau, Puzique, EastWest and Einzeller. Boys Noize keeps the track’s basic template and makes the hard parts harder, the dark parts even darker. Then launches the rapture-inducing, blissed-out second half into disco-funk hyperspace. It’s like starting in the deepest mosh pit and rising to the top of the highest terrace of the club to watch Berlin wake up.
MSTRKRFT hail from Canada, but coming from the cold only makes them hotter. Studio wizard Al-P and Jesse F. Keeler from punk disco superstars Death From Above 1979 are responsible for turning Annie, Bloc Party, The Kills, Nine Inch Nails, Metric or Wolfmother into merciless dancefloor monsters. They applied their signature sound to “Dudun-Dun”, and the result is a ravey juggernaut of heavily compressed synths, thunderous drums and clipped vocal riffs, with a somewhat unexpected Copacabana feel. And oh, those whistles!
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