Christian Schultz & Miskeyz - Welcome To Paradise ft. Emma Carn

For our Mellow Monday post, we're bringing you a summery indie flavoured jam from Christian Schultz and Miskeyz featuring vocals from Emma Carn. Welcome to Paradise has a really nice mix of summer flavours, with some definitely indie and folk influence in both the instrumentation and lyrical content, combined with some stripped back house percussion elements. If this doesn't get you through your Monday with a smile, I'm not sure what will.

Welcome to Paradise is available for purchase from iTunes here.

- KJ

Jaymes Young - I'll Be Good (Tom Bull Remix) [Atlantic Records]

Tom Bull's remix of Jaymes Young's I'll Be Good just dropped yesterday on Beatport, and it is a really great deep house take on the original's chilled acoustic folk style. The remix keeps a lot of the original lyrical quality while also giving it a distinct feel just by shifting where in each phrase the chorus starts. Where the original has a more laidback folk feel, the remix moves the lyrics forward with the percussion and bassline by bringing in the lyrics solidly on the first beat of the phrase, and the result is an overall tightening of the track fitting with the progression of a deep house track. Not to mention the bassline is very nicely implemented to have a really deep feel that is able to be both subtle and effective throughout.

This one just dropped on Atlantic Records, so make sure you head to Beatport and pick up your copy. If you can't get enough of Tom Bull's style in this one, another recommendation from a little while back is his remix of MNEK's The Rhythm (which is a free download).

- KJ

Ben Howard - The Fear (Elkoe Remix)

Indie Folk House? Can we coin that now? Has it been done already? If not, it's been done now - a really cool remix of Ben Howard's The Fear was just put up by a producer out of Calgary - Elkoe.

The majority of the original lyrics and instrumentation are left virtually untouched - so if you know the original, this will sound very familiar. Elkoe has essentially woven a house soundscape tightly into the open spaces left in the original recording.  If you are a fan of folk music or house music alike, this will have something for you.  Best of all, this was published as a free download, so jump on it.  You can download straight from the embedded player below.

- KJ