{"id":48575,"date":"2017-12-13T02:24:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T01:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/?p=48575"},"modified":"2017-12-13T02:28:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T01:28:35","slug":"edu-imbernon-explains-xx-remixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/edu-imbernon-explains-xx-remixes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bEdu Imbernon: My 3 Remixes For My Favourite Current Band, The xx\u200b\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Following his 2010 hit remix of &#8216;Crystalised,&#8217; and its follow, &#8216;Reunion,&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/?s=%22Edu+Imbernon%22\">Edu Imbernon<\/a> returns for his third remix of The xx.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His re-work of <strong>&#8216;Lips&#8217;<\/strong> is taken from the band\u2019s third album, <strong>\u201cI See You\u201d<\/strong>, on <em>Young Turks<\/em> and continues Edu&#8217;s exploration of melodic and emotional moods for the dancefloor. With a strong 2017, Edu Imbernon and his <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/?s=%22Fayer%22\">Fayer<\/a><\/em> brand have gone strength to strength in both underground and crossover appeal, culminating in the emotive melodies of &#8216;Lips&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Edu himself explains his motivations behind each of his The xx remixes:  <\/p>\n<h2>The xx \u200b- Crystalised\u200b (2010)\u200b<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fimbernonmusic%2Fthe-xx-crystalised-edu-imbernon-remix&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nEarly 2010 my ex-manager and good friend Valentino Barrioseta came to have dinner at my place and showed me The \u200bxx&#8217;s \u200bfirst album\u200b.\u200b I \u200bfell\u200b\u200b\u200b in love with Crystalised, I remember listening to it on Youtube and the song having less than 50k plays.<\/p>\n<p>Valentino asked me \u200bi\u200bf \u200bI\u200b would like to remix this, I said of course\u200b; \u200bhe spoke to Young Turks and they were keen on the idea although there were many other artists remixing it and they w\u200bould\u200b only release a few, fortunately mine was selected and therefore released.<\/p>\n<p>For me this remix changed my perception of producing electronic music, real instruments became part of me instantly, the remix became an instant classic and it\u200b&#8217;\u200bs of course one of my most proud remixes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had countless situations where I&#8217;ve played it (always as a closing song) and have had the biggest reactions ever from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The remix is one of the most sold remixes of the band up to today, which means a lot considering it was released 7 years ago and so many great names have remixed them.<\/p>\n<h2>The \u200bxx\u200b &#8211; Reunion\u200b (2013)<\/h2>\n<p>\u200b<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fimbernonmusic%2Fthe-xx-reunion-edu-imbernon&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhen the band\u200b announced their second album I was so excited to listen to it and I got a chance again to remix it\u200b. The\u200b label let me chose which song\u200b,\u200b and my \u200bfavo\u200bu\u200brite from the album was &#8220;Reunion&#8221;\u200b &#8211; \u200bfor me it kept the essence of their first album which I loved so much\u200b,\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b Reunion had the bass \u200band\u200b riffs that I needed for the remix and of course the beautiful vocals from Romy and Oliver.<br \/>\nWhen I started the remix I tried to keep a similar concept \u200bto \u200bCrystalised, respect\u200bing original elements and add\u200bing\u200b the &#8220;dancefloor&#8221; touch to it. I also used this remix as a closing song for a couple of years, \u200be\u200bspecially effective when playing sunset or sunrise sets.<\/p>\n<h2>The \u200bxx\u200b &#8211; Lips\u200b (2017)\u200b<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fimbernonmusic%2Fthe-xx-lips-edu-imbernon-remix&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhen I got the chance to listen to their new album I instantly f\u200bell\u200b\u200b in love with Lips\u200b, despite \u200bit \u200bbeing quite different from the other songs I remixed for them\u200b. This one was a challenge for me as original song is 86bpm\u200b,\u200b which automatically makes it complicated to keep \u200bthe \u200boriginal concept intact\u200b.\u200b \u200bAs \u200bwith previous remixes, I decided to recreate a full re-interpretation creating a more hypnotic \/ slow burner kind of version\u200b, this \u200bis the slowest remix\u200b I&#8217;\u200bve ever release\u200bd\u200b at 116 bpm\u200b.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>So for this version I decided\u200b on\u200b no acoustic \/ electric bass but a fully synthesized one, Romy&#8217;s voice re-sampled and everything building to an intense breakdown for an instant bass harmony variation as an euphoric moment\u200b, This is \u200bperhaps one of the most risky remixes \u200bI&#8217;ve\u200b ever done (considering the amount of great sounds that the original had) but one of the remixes \u200bI&#8217;m\u200b most proud of, \u200be\u200bspecially being the third remix for the band and wanting to express something different than the 2 older remixes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Lips&#8221; is NOW AVAILABLE on Young Turks.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"button small\" style=\"background:#E40045;\"><a style=\"color:#FFFFFF;\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/imbernonmusic\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"> Soundcloud <\/a><\/span> <span class=\"button small\" style=\"background:#E40045;\"><a style=\"color:#FFFFFF;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/imbernonmusic\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"> Artist Page <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following his 2010 hit remix of &#8216;Crystalised,&#8217; and its follow, &#8216;Reunion,&#8217; Edu Imbernon returns for his third remix of The xx. His re-work of &#8216;Lips&#8217; is taken from the band\u2019s third album, \u201cI See You\u201d, on Young Turks and continues Edu&#8217;s exploration of melodic and emotional moods for the dancefloor. With a strong 2017, Edu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13603],"tags":[15671,297,15669,7936,532,15670,12002,6165],"class_list":["post-48575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","category-playlist-london","tag-crystalised","tag-edu-imbernon","tag-lips","tag-playlist","tag-remix","tag-reunion","tag-the-xx","tag-young-turks","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}