Review
Genre and Mood
KlangTherapeuten and Melokind share the credit on Perlentaucher - Melokind Remix, a remix that Discogs files with its EP under tech house. The feelings, hypnotic and groovy, are our reading of its numbers and its use rather than a critic’s words: a long track at a steady 125 beats per minute, made for DJs and soon placed in a DJ mix. Perlentaucher is German for pearl diver.
Song Summary
Lochmann Records released Perlentaucher as a four-track digital EP on 10 July 2013, catalogue LR010. The original mix runs 5:43 at 126 BPM, and three producers each give their version: Melokind at 7:33 and 125 BPM, Robin Schulz at 7:25 and 123, and Matthias Kick at 7:34 and 123. Melokind’s remix is the second track, and the longest of the remixes is barely longer than his. The tempos come from the release notes on Discogs.
Musical Breakdown
No review or analysis we found describes the Melokind Remix part by part, so this section keeps to the release data.
Main Section
At 125 BPM and seven and a half minutes the remix is built for the long blend of a DJ set: almost two minutes longer than the original, at nearly the same tempo. Listen for what fills that extra time, since no source says.
Concepts in Focus
A remix reworks a recording’s parts, and an EP like this one is a small catalogue of choices: one original and three producers’ versions, side by side. Their tempos differ by only three beats per minute, so what separates them is arrangement and sound rather than speed. Robin Schulz’s version had the longest life; MusicBrainz finds it on the compilations About: Berlin Vol. 4 in 2013 and Mayday 2014: Full Senses.
A dj mix is a continuous set in which tracks blend into one another. MusicBrainz lists the Melokind Remix inside Alpine Grooves Vol. 5 (Kristallhütte), a mixed compilation of 2013, the same year as the EP. Placement in a mix like that is how a small-label remix reaches listeners who would never look for the EP itself.
Artistic Context
KlangTherapeuten are Felix Adams and Philipp Weidenbach, former neighbours who founded the DJ duo in 2010 and, in the words of their Discogs profile, combine soulful drifting tracks with deep and powerful dancefloor weapons. They began producing at the end of 2011 with the EP Rinderkarussell, and in 2013 their remix of Max Manie’s Sunday was played by Bakermat, Lexer and Robin Schulz. Max Manie’s later single is here as Max Manie – Dance - Radio Edit. Melokind is Denny Marx, born in 1984 in St. Wendel in Saarland. His biography names Erasure and Ace of Base as early inspirations, says he began producing in Ableton Live in 2009, and lists trance, electro, tech house and experimental music among his styles.
Impact and Reception
We found no chart entry or review for this remix. It travelled through a DJ mix in its first year and is here because it stayed in the owner’s yearbook. Give it the full seven and a half minutes.
