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For our latest remix, we built a track around a brief but brilliant section of Miike Snow’s “Archipelago”.

This remix began with the idea of giving The Weeknd’s infamously dark “Initiation” a more benevolent tone, specifically by using a few choice lines that, when taken out of context, would feel at home in a classic Booty track. Despite the onslaught of Lana Del Rey remixes, when we then stumbled upon a unique way to incorporate her equally infamous “Video Games”, it sounded too good to deny. We soon realized that doing so inadvertently combined two of the most talked about artists in recent months. The result is something that we have a hard time classifying: it melds melancholy orchestration, the seductive vocals of an R&B song, drum patterns reminiscent of Baltimore club music and other unexpected elements (Dilla fans should listen close!). Enjoy.

This remix began with the idea of giving The Weeknd’s infamously dark “Initiation” a more benevolent tone, specifically by using a few choice lines that, when taken out of context, would feel at home in a classic Booty track. Despite the onslaught of Lana Del Rey remixes, when we then stumbled upon a unique way to incorporate her equally infamous “Video Games”, it sounded too good to deny. We soon realized that doing so inadvertently combined two of the most talked about artists in recent months. The result is something that we have a hard time classifying: it melds melancholy orchestration, the seductive vocals of an R&B song, drum patterns reminiscent of Baltimore club music and other unexpected elements (Dilla fans should listen close!). Enjoy.

For those that may have missed some (or all) of these when they first dropped, as the title says, this EP compiles 4 tracks where we either remixed or reworked some of the bigger rap songs from the past year or so.

RAP REMIX EP (Mediafire Link)

1. Dark Fantasy (Its Overture Remix) - Kanye West

2. I’m On One (Its Overture Remix) - DJ Khaled & Drake

3. Ni**as In Paris (Its Overture Remix) - Jay-Z & Kanye West

4. You Be Killin Em (Its Overture’s Tempo Murderer Edit) - Fabolous

A little over a month after its release, the long awaited Watch The Throne has been digested and debated by many and no matter where you’re opinion lies, it’s been a dominant conversation piece in hip hop. Given everyone’s familiarity, we felt it was an ideal time to rework one of its standout tracks, “Ni**as In Paris”. The melody is undeniably addictive and, in our minds, it was screaming to be flipped. So we chopped and rearranged it, switched up the tempo and added flavoring from a couple other punch-you-in-the-face-type-intense hip hop classics (”Ante Up” and “Get Your Freak On”, to be precise).

Ni**as In Paris (Its Overture Remix) by Its Overture

Company Flow is reuniting this weekend so we thought it’d be as good a time as any to drop the extended version of our Vital Nerve remix. First found on our “5 Boro Bass Mix” which paired some classic hip hop songs with drum-n-bass breaks, this one always seemed to stand out, so we doctored it up and made it a stand alone track.

Vital Nerve (Its Overture’s DnB Remix) by Its Overture

The Bangles “Walk Like An Egyptian”
Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side”
Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way”

We’re well aware that this one has all the markings of a gimmicky 2005-era “mash up”. I think we started out trying to find a tamer but still dance-friendly blend for the “Walk Like An Egyptian” acapella and somehow ended up taking it in the complete opposite direction, making it more of a mellow party break instead. Ultimately, it’s a flip of the Lou Reed more than anything, and with the ghost of A Tribe Called Quest’s “Can I Kick It” floating in the background, I hope you’ll find the result a whole lot classier than most of the “just add water” gimmickry from years back.

Walk by Its Overture

The term “summer anthem” is being thrown around for this DJ Khaled & Drake collabo that dropped last week.While not the track’s biggest fans there’s definitely something to it, so we decided to write it a new bassline, put it at a more dancefloor friendly tempo and make it something we could see as OUR summer anthem.

I’m On One (Its Overture Remix) by Its Overture

Lykke Li’s acoustic ballad “I Know Places” had a melody and title that reminded us of the classic Talking Heads track “This Must Be The Place”. So we decided to flip both for this remix.

I Know Places (Its Overture Remix) by Its Overture