Track of the Week – Moderat “Reminder”

Moderat are back. With »Reminder« they blend the spacious, highly emotional sounds of modern electronic music with timeless songwriting. Two powerful remixes from Special Request aka Paul Woolford and Answer Code Request take the track to very different dancefloors. Paul Woolford is one of the truly great British DJs and producers. As Bobby Peru he developed a strikingly raw, unexpectedly physical House sound. Lately he caused a stir as Special Request, taking the relentlessly thumping breakbeats of the early nineties to present ancefloors. In his »Special Request Rework« Woolford recreates the song with a highly determined, imperious bass drum, saving the vocal for an even more effective appearance in the break of the track. The looped breakbeat and precise sound splinter from the original version, giving the track unstoppable, trashing energy, making it equally indispensable for Bass Music and for House Music DJs.

Berlin’s Answer Code Request is one of the artists on Berghain’s label Ostgut Ton. Pursuing the opposite approach from his British colleague, Answer Code Request does not develop his remix out of a groove, but from the atmosphere, the emotional realm of the track. Artfully orchestrating shreds of Apparat’s voice and a series of striking hook lines and synthesizer
tracks, Answer Code Request creates one of the most pronounced Techno tracks of this season.