Hot Chio – Queen City Sounds and Art

Sparkling turned over its song “I Want To See Everything,” the title track to its debut album to Hot Chip’s Felix Martin for a remix that expands and completely transforms the original. Whereas the original song is an upbeat pop song in German and French with a winsome moment of synth infused reverie in the middle, Martin takes that aspect of the song and renders the rest of the song in its tonal colors while adding synth lines and emphasizes the techno possibilities inherent to the song along with vocoder and isolated guitar lines that intone a chord and sound like they’re melting slowly in the wind of the momentum of the song. The warm indie rock song becomes something more ethereal yet Martin somehow preserves the emotional warmth and earnest quality of the song that made the original so appealing. It’s like a retrofuturist treatment that wouldn’t have been out of place on a playlist for The Hacienda or one of the clubs that would have welcomed Daft Punk or Air in their respective early days. Listen to the Felix Martin remix of “I Want To See Everything” on Soundcloud and connect with Sparkling at the links provided.