-in which we discuss: Success where others have failed.

Unfortunately we missed Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip @ Coachella this year, but I wasn’t there so don’t blame me! Thank god the album, angles, is out now, because we’ve been getting single after single of amazing originals followed by even better remixes. In this case I’m talking about the most recent, ‘Look For The Woman’ single.

Look For The Woman - Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip

The original starts slow, with a glimpse of the chorus that transforms into the first verse within a matter of a few seconds. The beat is a constant piano and snare driven down tempo one, that hardly ever changes from the way it begins. It hardly needs to, which is evident in the last 30 seconds, when the same piano that has played throughout takes on a whole new meaning giving the song a whole new tone.

Look For The Woman (Fake Blood Remix) - Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip

Like any good remixer however, Fake Blood turns this track into a creeping electric jam, with the chorus completely absent. The piano is no longer what drives the track, only coming in at around the 3 minute mark to offer some familiarity. If it weren’t for the constant loops regarding love, “It’s all love” and “Love, it’s a weird thing, aint it?” one might have forgotten that this wasn’t the original. When Fake Blood samples, “My head’s in a mess. Thats just what I do” it sounds so spot on, as if justifying his whole career as a remix master. On his ‘Beeper’ remix, Free Blood focused almost solely on the chorus creating a remix that didn’t stray quite far enough from the original. Here he ditches the weakest aspects of the original to create a whole new track that is still true to the sensitive subject matter, but allows the listener to look at it a different way. On Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip’s website they repeatedly state, “Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music”. Here, Fake Blood abides.

Look For The Woman single and Angles LP are both out now on Sunday Best.