More Love (feat. Barbara Tucker) [STUDIO APARTMENT & TsuruSwing Remix]

Masanori Morita & Noboru Abe STUDIO APARTMENT returns to the stalwart Tokyo imprint N.E.O.N with a collaborative rework of the album cut 'More Love' featuring legendary NYC house vocalist Barbara Tucker. Taking to the studio with N.E.O.N frequenter TsuruSwing to craft a remix that embodies these two production masters' true sound; throughout a deeply immersive and soulful piece of dancefloor music. The original 'More Love', a stunning, uplifting progression of ascending piano progressions and crisp synth bass with Barbara Tucker's immense vocals is stripped back to a minimal style late-night techno piece. Traversing across the dance sub-genres with ease, carving out a distinct path of its own with hypnotising pulses that extend deep within the beating heart of the track, and the micro-details formed from scrupulous, incremental changes to the synths as the arrangement transpires. The live percussion components are set back while the focus through STUDIO APARTMENT & TsuruSwing's remix is on the atmosphere created from juxtaposing suspended harmonies against deep, surging drones. The track builds and builds through a plethora of synthesized tones and bit-crushed rhythms that interlace a firm rolling kick drum. Barbara Tucker's empowering and immediately recognisable voice is resampled and looped to craft a trigger point within this tripped-out composition. It rotates and soars as it rises up from the bed of warm undulating subs into clarity, extending in length while the atmospherics absorb it through intense breakdowns and elevating pinnacles. Impossible to experience this piece of work without a full body high, the pair create triumphant moments from the meeting of sounds, monumental incidents where signalling drums beckon in a new layer or section, much like the traditional sounds of dance music's roots in the drumming circles of Africa. These alluring collisions of interlinking synth tones create moments of unparalleled ecstasy. STUDIO APARTMENT & TsuruSwing have crafted a piece of minimalism through contradicting rhythms, sidewinding sonics and masterfully orchestrated moments of critical mass. Immersive instrumentation keeps us transfixed throughout the ride, where the meticulous care taken over the sound design of each element is just as key to this remix as the delicate and beautifully restrained musical composition itself.