Dance music has the ability to take you back to an intoxicating night long-gone, or leave you waiting for another moment of free-reign. For me, it often allows an indulgence in letting loose. It’s all about that feeling. So, when you combine UK dance music legends Disclosure with rising dance artist yunè pinku, that’s exactly what you get.
yunè pinku is the producer, vocalist and DJ crafting experimental dance music for an audience she calls “introverted ravers”. Having first explored lo-fi bedroom pop and carving out ambient soundscapes at her computer, she later began playing around with club sounds. Here she melded these creations with her textured production, a touch of existentialism and a nod to the growing virtuality creeping into our lives. Over the past few years she has established herself as one of the UK’s most unique club producers, bringing a glitching, spectral energy to the sounds of trance, breakbeat, garage and house.
In this most recent release yunè pinku was invited to remix Disclosure’s colorful jungle track ‘Higher Than Ever Before’. However, the remix tells a more dreamlike story than the original, beginning with warping vocals, tension-building breaks and shimmering hi-hats. Yune’s own ghostly vocals emulating hazy memories of freedom and dance, as she echoes against the keys. The track then opens up an expansive, textured soundscape layered with flickering synths, reminiscent of a new-age Tangerine Dream. yunè pinku effortlessly captures euphoric afterhours in her production and she doesn’t hold back with this remix, which will transport you right to those trance-like moments on the dancefloor.