If you're going to put your sweet, delicate pop song in the hands of someone like Yuksek, you're probably pretty aware of what he's going to do to it. It's basically going to be twisted and turned into an epic dancefloor no matter how it started out.
Case in point? Danish popstar Oh Land's summery, Feist-esque 'Sun of a Gun'. Originally a feel-good, piano-led happy 'thing', which is just one major advertising campaign away from establishing a new Scandinavian superstar, now a dark, bass-heavy dancefloor monster. True, it lacks a true 'shit hitting the fan' moment that so many previous Yuksek remixes have exploded into approximately 1:33 before the remix's end, but in this instance, a slightly more subtle approach is quite satisfactory. And we're usually not once for a subtle approach. We like it when remixers run at a track screaming and banging pipes together.
Oh Land 'Sun of a Gun' (Yuksek remix)
PS. Oh Land is probably not new if you are from Denmark but to us, she is. We don't know if anyone is in the market in Britain for a new favourite Scandinavian popstar, but if you like your pop brilliance with a little class and also playable over dinner, then you could do a lot worse than listening to the rest of Oh Land's music at her MySpace page.
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