Daso’s “Daybreak” was quite possibly the highpoint of the MBF label mix “Flashback,” so I admit to being wary of two remixes by (to me) unknowns. Luckily, that was plain foolish of me: Oliver Koletzki brings a rugged, Belgian EBM-type feel to the track; he lets it bang hard for the first half, then drops in that lovely three-note melody and shimmies it all behind a wall of steam. Skat’s remix gets things funkier with a killer multitimbred version. He rolls the beat up tight like sausage, garnishing it with pitchbent snips and snaps of the vocal, and then ending it all with a physical set of broken beats to up the tension.

My Best Friend / MBF 12024
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[Mallory O’Donnell]