I’ll be honest, I haven’t even listened to the new Django Django stuff yet, mainly because I’m not enough of a fan. I quite like their music whenever I hear it, but not enough to actually track it down, and I figure that the new album will be all over the radio soon enough (also adverts, and computer games, and anything else with cash money synchronisation opportunities, I’m sure. Which is fine. I get it, it’s all good money, and well deserved. Bit tedious though, right?).

Anyway, a Ghost Culture remix of ‘First Light’ just popped up on my Twitter feed, and I am enough of a fan of the music he’s put out lately to actively give it a listen.

Regardless of what the original sounds like, the remix is a great piece of work. Despite the majority of the instrumentation being very washy and dreamlike, the bassline is still clean and powerful; enough to cut right through all that beautiful underwatery mess of a topline. As a whole, the track is hypnotic, but driving; detached, but insistent; ambient, but direct; and other such contradictory pairings.
(Addendum: I went back and listened to the original, and it’s pretty good. Sounds very Django Django, if you know what I mean.)