Our boys from the Great White North, Smalltown DJs, are crushing the game. The Canadian duo have been lighting up forums and charts with their frenetic, bass driven tastemaking skills which have reworked some of the dance music world’s most prominent voices into absolute slammers. Their latest remix tackles Jamie XX: a producer that’s on top of the world right now after stellar showings on XL Recordings such as his Gil-Scott Heron concept album, We’re New Here, and his work with the atmospheric electronica outfit, The XX.
The song in question is Jamie XX’s summer time, backyard moodsetter “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)” which, in the hands of Smalltown DJs, gets flipped into a future-house inspired flamethrower of an edit that accentuates the bopping sensibility of the original while giving it a bass-heavy twist. This amps the danceability of the track to an all-time high, but not without sacrificing the breeziness of Jamie XX’s original. Instead, this remix reaches out, throwing punches, going for an edge that pushes into a harder, more rave oriented mentality made all the more apparent with each subsequent drop and stab of the bass.
Stream the Smalltown DJs remix of “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)” below and go to their SoundCloud page for a free download.
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