Artist: AKA AKA & Thalstroem
Title: Faces with Jim Hickey [Remixed]
Remixers: Dan Caster, Teenage Mutants
Label: Burlesque Musique
Release: December 11th 2015

 

Tracklist

Faces (Original Mix)
Faces (Dan Caster Remix)
Faces (Teenage Mutants Remix)
Faces (Radio Mix)

 

 

 

With their second single release from their longplayer “Connected“, AKA AKA & Thalstroem invite the singer Jim Hickey into the studio.

With his soulful, almost fragile voice Hickey weaves a sound carpet of emotions on the complex beat of AKA AKA & Thalstroem which, with his reduced tempo, builds up an enormous groove until the break. When the guitar play of Thomas Moked unfolds to an inspirational source of harmonies, Hickey’s voice starts the prelude to the ecstatic climax of the song.

Dan Caster‘s remix takes many elements of the original, forces up the tempo and clearly shows that it’s meant for the dancefloor.

While using the original vocal Caster puts it on a high pitch on the middle part, giving it a serious recognizability; Teenage Mutants divergs quite a bit more from the original and concentrates on his crystal clear bassline and concise drums, which are broken up through spacy layers and wide opening synths and even while having a 4-to-the-floor mix, give time to dream and flow with the music.