YACHT are always in the mood for dancing, and a song like “I Walked Alone” – with all its wiry funky bass and itchy beats – seems designed explicitly to provoke bodily herks and jerks. The Larry Gus remix shimmies at the original track’s pace but shakes with a different feel; the spasmodic energy and rhythms are eased by the gentle sounds of tribal vocalizations, rolling percussion and what sounds like the warm, white-noise hiss of an well-worn vinyl record. Max Tundra’s version – an even more electrified take on the YACHT original – spins out in annular rhythms that play off the ear like the aural version of a hypnotist’s spiral. Parisian duo Get A Room!, aka Rove Dogs and Jeff Masson, make things housier (and more pop, in the best way), by laying on synths where there previously were none and infusing the whole song with a frivolity that just beams outward. And New York City stalwart Jacques Renault, who contributes a remix both with and without vocals, takes his time to build to a plateau of perfectly paced beats and a wall of recurring dream(y) house rhythms. - Kali Holloway
YACHT’s new video for “I Walked Alone” premiered this afternoon at interviewmagazine.com
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