Yoko Duo, Stimming
Close These Curtains (Stimming Remix)
Stimming wraps Yoko Duo's fragile song in velvet: a slow, organic deep house remix full of soft textures, a hushed vocal and the feeling of a room going quiet.
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theAngelcy
My Baby Boy
Plucked strings, a chorus of voices and Rotem Bar Or's raw tenor make this Tel Aviv folk song feel like a lullaby sung in a dark, uneasy time.
The Hacker, Mount Sims
Traces (Oxia Remix)
Oxia turns The Hacker and Mount Sims' cold-wave electro into a patient, rolling techno journey, all brooding synth lines and a build that keeps tightening the screw.
The Avener, Ane Brun
To Let Myself Go
The Avener wraps Ane Brun's fragile Scandinavian folk confession in a slow, rolling deep-house groove, turning a private surrender into a sunset dancefloor moment.
TEEMID, Joie Tan
Crazy (Radio Mix)
Gnarls Barkley's frantic classic slowed into a hazy deep-house lullaby: TEEMID and Joie Tan make Crazy sound like a confession whispered at four in the morning.
Noir & Haze
Around (Solomun Vox)
Solomun's vocal mix of the Noir & Haze single, Resident Advisor's remix of the year 2011: a rolling, bass-heavy deep house groove under Haze's aching voice, released on Noir Music and later licensed to Defected.
Niklas Ibach
Hungry (Remix)
Niklas Ibach slips Dotan's aching folk-pop plea onto a soft deep-house pulse, keeping the ache while giving it somewhere to move.
Nicolas Jaar
Time For Us
A young Nicolas Jaar's slow, sultry minimal-house classic, a crooned vocal and dusty, swaying textures that famously sink from dance tempo into a long, swooning breakdown nobody wants to mix out of.
Mount Sims
Together Alone
Cold machine rhythm and a detached croon from the American edition of Mount Sims' 2002 debut UltraSex, an electroclash meditation on being close to someone and still completely on your own.
Mount Sims
Ashes
A smouldering piece of dark synth-pop that opens Mount Sims' 2004 album Wild Light: cold machines and a weary croon circle the remains of something that burned out long ago.
Michelle Gurevich
Lovers Are Strangers
Michelle Gurevich croons a deadpan, candlelit elegy for love gone cold, with lo-fi synths and a slow-dance sway that make heartbreak feel strangely elegant.
Michelle Gurevich
First Six Months of Love
A slow, smoky synth ballad in which Michelle Gurevich's deadpan contralto toasts the giddy first months of a romance while already hearing the ending coming.
Lilly Wood and The Prick, Robin Schulz
Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Radio Edit)
Robin Schulz lifts a mournful 2010 French folk-pop song onto a bouncing deep house beat, Nili Hadida's bleak prayer and a looping guitar riff becoming a number one across Europe in 2014.
Labyrinth Ear
Navy Light
A three-minute haze of blurred synths, soft beats and a distant, weightless voice, Navy Light feels like city lights seen through rain on a night bus window.
Klyne
Paralyzed
A hushed, slow-burning slice of electronic soul from the Dutch duo Klyne, where a fragile falsetto floats over muted beats and a heart too stunned to move.
Klyne
Entropy
A hushed, late-summer slow jam from the Dutch duo Klyne, where a feather-light falsetto floats over soft keys, tropical-leaning drums and pulsing synths.
KANT
Close to the Wire (Club Remix)
The Copenhagen production team KANT stretch Leo Stannard's aching vocal across a seven-minute club arrangement on Black Butter Records, melancholy piano chords and a steady deep house pulse turning heartbreak into something you can dance through.
Jan Blomqvist
Big Jet Plane
Jan Blomqvist slows Angus & Julia Stone's folk lullaby into a long, glowing melodic-house drift, his weary vocal hovering over the pulse like a plane above night clouds.
Jan Blomqvist
Big Jet Plane (Animal Trainer Remix)
The Zürich duo Animal Trainer fold Jan Blomqvist's hushed 2011 cover of Big Jet Plane into a rolling, late-night deep house remix, released on the Berlin label Dantze, where a longing vocal drifts above a patient, pulsing groove.
James Newton Howard, Jennifer Lawrence
The Hanging Tree
Jennifer Lawrence's bare, unpolished voice sings an eerie murder ballad from Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay, set to a melody by the Lumineers, that swells into a rebel anthem as James Newton Howard's orchestra gathers behind her.
Him_Self_Her, Kieran Fowkes
Gone Too Long (Original Mix)
A slow-rolling deep house groove under Kieran Fowkes' soulful, yearning vocal, the Leicester duo's Crosstown Rebels release made for the last, emotional hour of a night.
Dusty Kid
Nemur (Walls of Guitars) (Extended Version)
The Sardinian techno producer closes his debut album A Raver's Diary (Boxer, 2009) with an unexpected, tender song of layered guitars and his own fragile voice that swells into a wall of sound.
Codec & Flexor
Time Has Changed (Original)
Cold, pulsing analogue-style synths and a detached vocal make Codec & Flexor's electroclash-era club hit sound like a rave remembered through frosted glass.
Claptone, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Ghost
Claptone sets Alec Ounsworth's fragile, quavering indie vocal over a patient deep house groove, a dancefloor track that sounds like it is mourning something.