Review
Genre and Mood
Super Flu wrote mygut, and Solomun turned it into mygut (Solomun Remix), eight minutes of deep house for the end of the night. The feelings named here, hypnotic and haunting, follow the one review of this remix, which heard it as groovy, almost anthemic and made for after-hours, with vocals that sound slightly scary.
Song Summary
The original mygut is the fifth of twelve tracks on Musik 3, the album the Halle duo released on the label Monaberry in 2017; MusicBrainz lists it at a little over five minutes. Solomun’s remix runs past eight. Monaberry released it as a single in late August 2017 and collected it on Musik 3+, the album of remixes that also brought in Deetron, Mathias Kaden, Coyu and Oliver Koletzki. The one detail that stays is a piano that waits until the very end.
Musical Breakdown
The Grotto review describes the remix in four moments; no source gives their times.
Intro
The warm bassline is there from the very start, and the groove settles in at once.
Main Section
The track holds an almost anthemic, after-hours atmosphere, and the review says it keeps that feeling all the way to the breakdown.
Breakdown
Here the vocals take over, and the reviewer found them slightly scary, especially for anyone who had seen the video of the original. Long, effected reverbs on the voice keep the tension up.
Outro
In the last minute a piano enters, the most surprising moment of the remix for the reviewer, and the touch that makes it sound like a closing track.
Concepts in Focus
A remix can change what a track is for. Super Flu told Electronic Groove that mygut was their favourite track for cuddling; Solomun’s version is a long club piece built for a dark room late at night.
The breakdown usually drops the beat for a breath before a release. Here, by the review’s account, it is where the unease peaks, as the voice comes forward.
reverb is what makes that voice sound distant. Long, effected tails let each phrase hang in the air, and the tension never fully resolves.
Artistic Context
Super Flu are Felix Thielemann and Mathias Schwarz from Halle (Saale). They said the idea of Musik 3 was born on a trip to the Himalayas in January 2016, and that the album meant going “more into the depth” while setting their pop background aside. Solomun, born Mladen Solomun in Travnik in 1975 and raised in Hamburg, co-founded the label Diynamic; his own Solomun – Friends shows the producer behind the remixes.
Impact and Reception
The blog Grotto premiered and reviewed the remix in August 2017, ahead of Solomun’s set at Apgrade Weekend in Belgrade that September. It is on this playground as one of Solomun’s darker remixes. Listen through to the end for the piano.
