"be mine!" in it's original form is a song i loved from the first time i heard as robyn appeared on the swedish national radios awardshow p3 guld in 2009. nobody knew what was going on but this was the starting point for robyn as the cultural phenomena in the current shape. as it was released at first it didn't come with any remixes or sorts and to be honest, i was hesitant for any as i didn't want anyone to fuck it up.
as she she took her massively selling album to the uk and eventually the us she, as she runs her own label, started re-issuing singles and with new remixes. "be mine!" was quite late to the equation but eventually the information dropped and i saw the names roger sanchez, ocelot, redroche, meat boys and jori hulkkonen. as they were introduced i wanted to hear samples of the versions but the two that i wanted to know about was by sanchez & hulkkonen. the former was quite a dud in these ears but jori hulkkonen didn't dissapoint at all.
the jist of the remix is that taking the original and refitting into the kind of techno that hulkkonen was making at the time. synthdriven techno with slow builds and heavy grooves. the backdrop fits the melancholy and sadness that robyn is purveying as she sings about missing love. the vocal however is different as i think the remixers were given a new take as the chords are different and hulkkonen uses this to his advantage.
one of the things that eventually irritated me with the original was that breakdown where she talks about "tying her laces", i can't even explain why this exact thing became a point of distress. however in hulkkonens version it works even if all he did was to set it with more of her background vocals and long sweeping pads, now the problem is solved
basically, hulkkonen managed to make a great song even better.
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