If we were dishing out an award for our favourite Australian tune of 2014 so far, Dreamers by mysterious Melbourne electronic duo Hopium featuring the mega talented/babe-n Phoebe Lou of Snakadaktal fame would be the track written down inside our envelope and engraved onto some kind of pointy thing.
If you’re yet to account for one (or in our case 857) of the 437,583 plays across their Soundcloud channel or the MESMERISING official video below… (Sorry, what’s that Hopium? You want us to watch a 5 minute and 23 second video of Phoebe looking all kinds of cute and hittin’ us with dem dreamy bedroom eyes? Well… OK, Only if we HAVE to) we strongly recommend that you do so NOW.
Nowwww personally we don’t think you can improve on perfection BUT being that everyone is a producer these days Hopium decided to make the stems to Dreamers available via their Soundcloud a little while back and now a bunch of reworks have popped up from all corners of the world.
Now they’ve had a good chance to listen to peoples interpretations, we caught up with the guys and asked them to hit us with their 5 faves -
1. TORIKU REMIX
Love the arpeggiators on this one. It’s keeping the pace of the original but with way more sparkles. I can also tell that musically he knows what’s going on. Synth at 1:22 is boss.
2. LANKS EDIT
We have a no guitar rule so it was cool to hear the song with them. Getting so many Postal Service flashbacks, awesome. Massive guitargasm at the end.
3. PANTHA REMIX
Wooooo. 2-step summer times. Pinging layers of synths, verbs. His Soundcloud says he’s from London so they must’ve been in the middle of a heatwave or something.
4. MOGUSA REMIX
Usually don’t like anything drum and bassy but this wins me over at 2:08. And at 2:47 when the cheering sample and techno build up comes in I’m not even mad.
5. FH REMIX
Can just imagine this guy with his HP laptop on the couch: “bah, why go to all that effort when i can just get the song, speed it up, Google image some space pictures and call it a remix…. muhahahahahahaaaaa”
You can hook yourself up with a copy of the original Dreamers HERE and stay tuned to Cool Accidents for more on Hopium as the mystery unfolds or at the very least they treat us to new tunes.
