Review
Genre and Mood
The Avener and Ane Brun’s To Let Myself Go - Don Rimini Sweet Home Version is a remix from the house end of electronic music, credited to a producer whose French Wikipedia entry files him under electro house, French touch and ghetto house. The song underneath stays what it was: melancholic, and liberating in its title.
Song Summary
This is a version of a version. Ane Brun wrote and recorded To Let Myself Go for her 2005 album A Temporary Dive; The Avener reworked it for his 2015 debut The Wanderings of the Avener; Don Rimini then remixed that rework. His version runs 5:48 and was released on 15 July 2016 as track 15 of We Go Deep, Saison 3 (Mixed by The Avener), a 96 Musique compilation. No source we found explains the name Sweet Home Version.
Musical Breakdown
We found no review or description of this remix, so this page does not invent one. What the sources give is its length, its credits and its setting.
Main Section
At 5:48 against roughly 4:14 for The Avener’s version, it is about a minute and a half longer. The credit keeps Ane Brun as artist alongside The Avener. How Don Rimini uses that time and that voice is for you to hear.
Concepts in Focus
A remix reworks an existing recording. Here the chain has three links: Brun’s folk recording, The Avener’s slow house rework of it, and Don Rimini’s remix of that. The Avener made his name this way, with Fade Out Lines, his rework of a Phoebe Killdeer & The Short Straws song; Don Rimini’s own catalogue includes remixes of Young MC, The Shamen and Lil Louis’s French Kiss.
A dj mix is a continuous sequence of tracks blended by a DJ. We Go Deep, Saison 3 comes in both forms: fifteen separate tracks and a continuous mix of more than an hour by The Avener, which is why a long remix like this one suits it. Hear the version it starts from in The Avener, Ane Brun – To Let Myself Go.
Artistic Context
Don Rimini is the alias of the French producer Xavier Gassemann, active since 2006, with releases on Rise Recordings, Mental Groove and No Brainer before he founded his own label, BunkaBall, in 2017. The Avener is Tristan Casara from Nice, whose 2014 rework Fade Out Lines topped the charts in Germany, Austria and Spain.
Impact and Reception
We found no chart entry or review for this version. It is here because it was among the owner’s most played songs of a Spotify year, a sign that a remix tucked away at the end of a mix compilation can still find its listener. Play it after The Avener’s version and listen for the difference.
