Kelela has announced Hallucinogen Remixes, a follow-up to the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter's debut Hallucinogen EP that dropped earlier this year. As Pitchfork reports, the remix album is due out Christmas Day, but the artist has shared Kahn's remix of "All the Way Down" in advance.
Kahn's reworking of the DJ Dahi-produced track exchanges the swirling arpeggiated synths of the original for a more angular, brooding grime-influenced sound. Kahn, best known among UK grime enthusiasts for collaborating with Neek, also adds some vocals by GAIKA to the remix.
The Soundcloud description for the new cut explains the forthcoming EP's aim: to see Kelela "galvanizing the global avant-garde to reimagine the EP as a continent-spanning sonic carnival." With this first cut, it's clear the Hallucinogen Remixes project is striving to expand the singer-songwriter's audience even further than the debut EP did, and that's saying a lot. Listen to Kahn's version of "All the Way Down" below.
In addition to the above cut, the forthcoming EP features MC Bin Laden's baile funk rendition of "Rewind," which as Thump reports was released earlier this month as part of Red Bull's 20 Before 16 series. You can grab that track here.
The forthcoming remix EP also features tracks reworked by DJ Spinn, Sporting Life, Air Max '97, MikeQ and Divoli S'vere among other artists who have all garnered a bit of buzz lately in the contemporary club scene.
The singer's debut EP had followed 2013's Cut 4 Me mixtape which marked her official debut as a solo artist. Featuring production from artists like Night Slugs, Fade to Mind, Girl Unit, Jam City and countless others, that mixtape established Kelela's reign as something of a collaboration queen.
The Hallucinogen EP, which dropped back in October, also boasts a stacked lineup of production credits from artists like Arca, Ma Nguzu, Kingdom and the aforementioned DJ Dahi. While working with tons of big names in futurist dance music is nothing new to the artist, it is worth noting that with this EP the focus shifted from the collaborators to the singer herself.
