Review
Genre and Mood
Nu, Jo.Ke and Acid Pauli meet on Who Loves the Sun - Acid Pauli’s Let It Be Naked Remix, deep house from the Bar 25 world reworked by a producer whose own style, he once said, sits somewhere between ambient and techno. The feelings, uplifting and joyful, rest on one review: the Swiss club magazine UBWG heard the remix as essentially more cheerful than the original.
Song Summary
The remix is the second of three tracks on We Love The Sun, Nu’s EP on Bar 25 Music, released on 12 July 2011 as BAR25-019, between the original mix of Who Loves the Sun and Dance In My Pants. UBWG wrote that the remix takes over the same great vocal track: Jo.Ke still sings, while Acid Pauli changes the setting around the voice. At six minutes and twelve seconds it is about three minutes shorter than the original.
Musical Breakdown
No source we found walks through the remix part by part or gives its tempo, so this section keeps to what the review heard.
Main Section
The vocal is the fixed point and the mood is the change. UBWG called the original’s singing wistful, a memory of the club; the remix keeps that voice and turns brighter. Listen for which elements around the voice make it feel lighter.
Concepts in Focus
A remix can keep the most recognisable part of a song and change everything else. That is the case here: same voice, a different mood. Play Nu, Jo.Ke – Who Loves the Sun first, then this version, and listen for how the same singing can sound wistful in one setting and cheerful in another.
The record belongs to Berlin’s club culture. Bar 25 was a summer-only bar and open-air club on the Spree in Friedrichshain, known for parties lasting up to 48 hours; it closed in September 2010 and kept its label. UBWG heard the EP as a memento of beautiful days at the former club.
The remix later got its own radio edit. In 2018 MusicBrainz lists a release called We Love the Sun (edit) with a 3:50 version of it, and Bar 25 Music placed the full remix on its compilation Bar 25 Music: Remixed that October.
Artistic Context
Acid Pauli is Martin Gretschmann, born in Schongau in 1973, long the lead programmer of The Notwist and the founder of the electronic project Console. Around the turn of the century he began playing as Acid Pauli, a name a friend shouted at a small illegal party in Munich while he played with only a laptop running ReBirth, software that emulates acid machines. In 2005 he co-opened the Munich club Rote Sonne.
Impact and Reception
The original mix opens the EP; this remix has had a quieter, steady life, back on vinyl when Bar 25 repressed the EP in 2018 and on the label’s remix compilation. It is here as the brighter twin of a sunset song. Play the two back to back.
