A New Tonewulf Remix Emerges from Oblong Square Records
A new release from Tonewulf comes through as a remix from an original track by Dear Banshee, and what the producer, DJ, and artist has done is taken this track that focuses originally, more on a rock backbone and blended in This brilliantly vast but slightly edgy electronic tonality to the whole thing and it comes forth with a more cinematic undertone and still keeps true to the original in certain facets.
Tonewulf is pretty well known for leading towards the experimental side of electronic music by utilizing some genius synthesizers and tones, come approaches, and arrangements to create atmospheres that you can stand on or get engulfed by.
This new release is no exception to that rule, except that it is a remix and so you still have some of these great, robust style vocals in the mix, along with this vaster and more digitally inclined set of textures.
"One Last Sigh - Remix", I was certainly approached with attention to detail in the mix and tonality of what this would become.
For a producer like Tonewulf, it must be a unique experience each time he approaches a remix, and it also has to be a song that influenced him in a certain way.
A producer like this has to hear a track and be impacted enough to want to remix the track, even if it's just because he knows it'll sound cool.
Using amazing synthesizers, he's able to create and build this aesthetic that you end up getting wrapped up in.
It comes in with some drippy synths and keys that have this delay on them, giving that drippy effect, and it starts to spread outward.
Another synth comes in, feeding it an underlying melody that's almost like a bass line, and this synth is like an edgier buzzing synth sound, and that tone helps breed some extra heaviness and edginess into the track, while you have these little percussion heads that are widespread and give the song a little added depth.
There's almost always an ambience to this track. The underbelly of it is expansive and spacious, which is part of the aesthetic that the artist was going for.
Some of the percussion hits are tiny at first, drenched in reverb effect, and giving that distant feel.
The vocals come in and give a new layer of texture to the track, which I really enjoyed. Obviously, the vocals come from the original mix of the song, which, if you take time to listen to it, sounds totally different from this one.
Again, you can hear how Tonewulf held on to some of the bigger elements of the original track, so it didn't stray super far but was absolutely different all at the same time.
It's almost like he created this new set of synths and melodies to let those vocals sit on top of them perfectly. It's like he started with the vocal melodies and built them around them.
I found that borderline brilliant, not even being sure that's how he did it.
He kept some of those guitars in there as well, which also brings back some of the alternative rock edginess of the original and also fills out some of the spaciousness of this version of the song.
The guitars also have some great echo or delay effects on them that really let them hit with some of the same vastness as the rest of the track boasts.
Nothing about this mix is dry. It's all very wet, as an audio engineer would call it. This means that there are all kinds of great effects on the instrumentation and vocals, so that everything has layers and depth to it.
This really does wonders for the track itself, and as far as I can tell, Tonewulf likely has a hand in the final mixdown of everything, seeing that he is the producer of this remix.
Even if that's not exactly correct, you can tell that when approaching this mix, Tonewulf definitely had an aesthetic in mind, and I think he nailed it.
There are lots of great choppy vocals, glitchy effects, loads of sort of sound effects, and percussion that come in and out of the mix, peppered in there to add extra fun, and underneath it all, it does manage to still have this thriving drive to it that pushes forward.
One of the things that blew me away about this remix is the simple fact of how many layers there are at certain points of the song. It is very lush and sort of full-bodied, with these many textures that come together throughout this song, and it's one of those things that takes time.
Again, there was definitely a lot of attention paid to the tones of the synthesizers, the effects put on all the instrumentation, the vocal melodies, and how they would sit with the keys, and everything else about it.
This is a song that you hear, and you can tell it wasn't just thrown together. It's very intricately done, but it still has a natural flow to it.
This was an absolute banger, and I feel like Tonewulf upped his game for this one.
It does seem like the producer steps in different directions when he creates music, whether it's an original or a remix. I think that is a factor in upping his game in general. Just going in new directions and seeing what happens.
He's experimental in his approach but knows exactly how to create atmospheres that you can get stuck on.
Very cinematic, very cool, very ambient, and with a perfect balance of edginess, this single comes across as something memorable and showcases someone who has visions for something different when they hear music.
Check this out right now and listen to other releases from Tonewulf, which you can do from the artist himself or through the label from which this was released, Oblong Square Records.
All the links are below for your listening pleasure.
