Last year we launched the first edition of our Remix Rising collection. In the months since, as 2024 plays out, the latest tracks coming out of the remix community have inspired us to put together a new spotlight on the best reworked gems from all corners of the dance world.
A compelling remix can breathe new life into a track or drive it into unexpected spaces. The original track might be transported to the dance floor for the first time or introduce the original artist to a new audience. Remixes move us both spiritually and literally.
In recent months we’ve seen the rapidly rising dance producer Fred again.. up the ante on “leavemealone.” The Atlanta-based, genre-blurring party rocker Nikki Nair put a funky electro beat on Caroline Polachek’s acclaimed track “Bunny Is a Rider.” And while TSHA’s “Somebody” featuring Ellie Goulding was already heating up clubs, Belfast’s Trance Wax raised the temperature with a big room remix. Dive into this fresh collection of reworked gems, in which artists including Romy and Peaches, Neil Francis and Alan Braxe, and Troye Sivan and Bag Raiders all unite in the name of remix bliss.
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Fred again.., "leavemealone (Nia Archives Remix)"
Drum and bass producer Nia Archives opens the throttle on the Fred again’s Baby Keem-sampling track.
Caroline Polachek, “Bunny Is A Rider (Nikki Nair 'Satellite' Remix)”
Raised on the party scene in Knoxville, TN, here the fast-rising DJ remakes Polachek’s melodic minimalism for the dancefloor
TSHA, “TSHA, Ellie Goulding and Gregory Porter - Somebody (Trance Wax Remix)”
Belfast’s Trance Wax reworks TSHA’s moody, trip-hoppy track into a brightly colored electro anthem
Muni Long, “Made For Me (Yumbs’ Amapiano Remix)”
South African “super producer” takes on the latest from Muni Long, who has co-written some massive hits (like Pitbull’s “Timber”)
KELELA, “Closure (Flexulant x BAMBII Remix feat. Rahrah Gabor + brazy)”
The Afrofuturist D.C. native Kelela features the rapper Rahrah Gabor on this ‘23 track, which gets a tag-team remix
DJ Seinfeld and Confidence Man, “Now U Do (Carlita Remix)”
Carlita says she first heard Seinfeld play this track in Ibiza and fell in love instantly: “Right then and there, I knew I wanted to remix it”
Romy, “Did I (Peaches Remix)”
From Romy’s 2023 solo debut, this remix features an exclusive verse from the veteran provocateur
Paul Rudder, “Nostalgic Feelings (Tensnake Remix)”
Rudder, who founded Poetry in Motion, teamed for this remix with the German DJ Tensnake, who calls it “pure ‘90s House nostalgica”
Lady Blacktronika, “Hold My Hand (Octo Octa's Sapphic Trails in Bloom Mix)”
The Brooklyn-based house producer Octa Octa takes the techno horror of Lady Blacktronika’s original and makes a banger of it
Shall Not Fade, “Chrissy - You Don't Have To Worry (Big Ang Garage Remix)”
Polyrhythms galore on this, one of several Shall Not Fade remixes of this big track from SF-based DJ-producer Chrissy
Skrillex, Fred Again, Four Tet, “Baby Again (CasueL Remix)"
Sampling Lil Baby, the superstar trio came together to play this one at Madison Square Garden in early ‘23
Callum Asa, “Drips (Zenker Brothers Remix) [feat. 140]”
Germany’s Dario and Marco Zenker get their hands dirty on this heady grime track featuring MC 140
Casper Caan, “Hearts Are Opening Up (Passion Pit Remix)"
Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos brings his pure pop instincts to this downtempo remix of New Yorker Caan’s recent anthem
Art School Girlfriend, “The Weeks (Cameo Blush Remix)”
As Cameo Blush, the UK producer John Dunk gives this post-punk track from Art School Girlfriend’s Polly Mackey the jitters
Bar 25 Music, “Nu, Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun (DSF Remix) [BAR25-198]"
From Greece, the DJ DSF reworks this quirky track into a crowd pleaser, bringing the repeating keyboard line to the fore
Troye Sivan, “Got Me Started (Bag Raiders Remix)”
Bag Raiders say they’ve had hundreds of requests to sample their 2011 classic “Shooting Stars”; Sivan’s was the first they OK’d
Sylvan Esso, “Hey Mami (Rick Wade Remix)”
Debut single from the electronic pop duo gets a bubbly 10-year anniversary remix
Aluna & Jayda G, “Mine O' Mine (P-rallel Remix)”
Raised by a DJ father, the West London DJ p-rallel has been rocking bodies since he was a kid, as he does here
born at midnite, “Y o Y (PPJ Remix)”
Paulo, Povoa, and Jerge pool their remix talents on this tongue-in-cheek track from Montreal duo Sandford and Carriere
Metronomy and Pan Amsterdam, “Nice Town (Alain Ogue Remix)"
Newly signed to Ninja Tune, Metronomy’s Joseph Mount welcomes this alternate take on his latest confection
Peggy Gou & Lenny Kravitz, “I Believe In Love Again (Jex Opolis Remix Edit)”
The Korean DJ partnered with a ‘90s idol on this hopeful track, whipped to a froth here in the remix version
ZAYN, “Love Like This (Mura Masa Remix)”
After dropping this single in summer 2023, Zayn Malik released this remix by the British producer who made us “Lovesick”
Abracadabra, “BLOND:ISH & ForgiveMeTommy! - We Like Party (Rework) (ABRA053) [Edit]”
No mysteries here: just as the title says, these collaborators get the party started with this contemporary take on the Vengaboys classic
NEIL FRANCES, “Some Kind of Static (Alan Braxe Remix)”
This LA duo is known for their cover of 1998’s “Music Sounds Better With You,” which featured one-half of Daft Punk and… Alan Braxe
L'Impératrice ♕, “Heartquake (Picard Brothers Remix)”
2023 single from the six-piece Paris nu-disco group, remixed by the in-demand brother duo
Merry Lamb Lamb, “Empathy (Anthony Naples Remix)”
This one is for “everyone who might feel helpless and lonely sometimes,” says this trilingual Londoner
Confidence Man, “Forever 2 (Crush Mix) (Edit)”
Brother-sister Aussie duo keep filling floors with this latest track
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