Canadian boy wonder Arnej shows his subtle side with the a downtempo mix of Bobina & JES’ iBelieve. After Bobina’s main mix and Lange’s nighttime trancefloor destroyer, Arnej delivers the definitive iBelieve chill out momenT.
Bobina & JES’s first collab has been making some making serious waves over the last couple of weeks. We’ve already served you ‘iBelieve’ one way… Now we’re giving it to you a whole different other!
In ingenious fashion, none other than Lange has stepped up to the remix plate and duly knocked a sonic homerun out of the park. Through its 808-style beats, running electro-set percussion, rolling, ‘I Feel Love’-ish basslines and chiptone FX, Lange channels 80s refs & riffs aplenty into the frontend of his mix. Come the seventh-inning stretch, he proceeds to filter trancier elements into its drop. Using cooler chords and acoustic guitar lament, he recasts JES’ vocal in a moodier, more intense light. As the synths swell up from the depths, Lange then swings for the fence with sonorously techy riff that delivers ‘iBelieve’ its striking endgame.
The next release to be singled out from the tracklist of Bobina’s thrill-packed ‘Speed Breaker’ album sees him teaming up with singer/songwriter doyen JES. From its Original album version, the Russian studio-savant has developed ‘iBelieve’ into an Extended Mix wonder – ready to take to daytime airwaves by storm and by night, bring clubs to their knees!
Setting a big precedent for his mix, electro-leaning intro-riffs and electrifying frequencies lift the opening minutes of Bobina’s expansion. Come the drop, he throttles back to slo-mo breakbeats and a thrummed bass guitar, letting the full weight of JES’ moving vocals deliver their emotional damage. Starting out bittersweet, tonally they shift throughout the break, finally up-swinging to ‘iBelieve’s positive, hope-filled crescendo.