this definitely came from a heads up on some website and at the time neither nine inch nails or the dfa was on my radar. nin was something i didn't care about sans a few songs that i liked ("leaving hope" for instance) and the dfa was just something i wouldn't get until i heard their remix of justin timberlake's "my love" and a few other tracks.
what i understood from those tracks was that dfa (both the core and whole label group) worked with material that they self played and their remixes and productions could be seen as jams sometimes. this is one those remixes and it's quite disco in that edgy stripped down way.
it does borrow slight influences from moroder/belotte but i guess that whole thing is second nature since they were the starting point with that sound. but it goes beyond his synth workouts, there is live drums on here and also live bass.
while the main mix is awesome and is really good there is two versions that the dfa did that appear on promos and some slightly elusive releases of "the hand that feeds" single that are jams. obviously they were played before or after or when making the main remix and then that was edited down to make the main version.
some of the ideas presented in the main version are explored upon more and the key thing is the fact that there is a female vocal that sings lines from donna summer's "i feel love". along with that is more noodling on the synths and just more or that lovely thing. shame these versions didn't get a wider release but anyhow.
buy here (7digital)
listen to version one (youtube) | listen to version two (youtube)
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