Neu Cyril Hahn

: Cyril Hahn
Based: Vancouver
Listen: soundcloud.com/cyrilhahn
Similar to: Bondax, Cashmere Cat

A remix is a remix, or so you’d imagine. It’s often a package, a perceived-to-be-necessary addition to a single, or a hype-gathering tidbit to lodge alongside an emerging track. But in Cyril Hahn’s case, remixes were the very foundations of his career.

The Bern-raised, Vancouver-residing producer did something different. He gathered up big names, celebrated pop icons like Destiny’s Child and Mariah Carey, who let’s face it didn’t need Another Bloody Remix to their name. And he applied a limitless approach. Barely anything from the originals made it out to the other side. Vocals were pitch-shifted into oblivion, atmospherics plugged firmly towards the ‘dark’ dial.

A year onwards and Cyril Hahn landed with his debut track proper, ‘Perfect Form’, featuring Shy Girls. The misty beginnings laid out with those remixes were shafted in favour of a clean, club-ready aesthetic. Suddenly the guy looks capable of producing chart staples of his own, rather than miraculously re-moulding celebrated classics.