[mp3] Sleigh Bells // Run The Heart (DISCOFORGIA Remix)

Written on February 7, 2011 by Rhys in Music, Remix

sleigh bells discoforgia remix [mp3] Sleigh Bells // Run The Heart (DISCOFORGIA Remix)

Sleigh Bells were always a prime target for remixes. Their noise-pop debut Treats was basically the musical equivalent of a massive, metal aping firework, the size of a camper van, being shot into the sky with a small yet feisty brandishing a megaphone going “SOULWAX! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ALL THESE CRAZY BEATS I GOT GOIN’ ON!” Or something like that. And I’ve often had the feeling that, if I were doing a DJ set, I could comfortably just play the whole of Treats and give myself half an hour chilling at the bar.

Diplo got his hands on “Tell ‘Em” a while ago and unexpectedly removed what you’d have thought was the most remixable part of the track – that mind blowing riff. The result was however, if you ask me, brilliant. And a remix of “Run The Heart” was, when I first saw it on my computer screen, a similarly strange prospect. “Run The Heart” already sounds like a club/trance banger in its original form. It’s one of the few moments on the album where Derek Miller’s heavy metal guitar more or less bows out and gives way to the pure glory of some bass beats. So what does this remix of the track have to offer?

Well at over 6 minutes, a hell of a lot. Alexis Kruss’ haunting vocal riff is slowed down and drizzled over the top of the track which starts of with an insistent bouncy beat before giving way to the natural trance synths of the original track. Then the beat returns, bigger and bouncier than before, like a fat kid back for more cake. This is a process repeated a few times. A lot of the original is totally done away with, the vocal line an essential part of the mix but not the basis of it. The track repeatedly spaces out, then the beats kick back in, fatter and with more swagger than before. By the time we’ve reached the end, we’ve got a whole array of heavy and irresistible clicks, thumps beats and wub-wub-wubbing going on. There’s a vast amount crammed in there and, like I said, it’s less a remix and more a sampling of the “Run The Heart” vocal line, but it’s all just so gloriously bouncy and overwhelming by the end that I don’t really care!

Grab this, slap it, turn it up. Enjoy!

Sleigh Bells // Run The Heart (DISCOFORGIA Remix) [mp3]