"I started using synthesizers, making all these crazy noises and getting weird with it. ![]() "Here you have claps, guitars, bass, piano, her voice, and that's it."ĭirlam says the first thing he did was to learn the song on the piano. "Rolling In The Deep" is perfect remix fodder because, as Dirlam explains, the song, as produced by Paul Epworth*, is stripped down to the basics. Certain songs have a lot going on in them that are really hard to eliminate when all you want is the vocal sample or basic idea," Dirlam says. "When you're in the remixing game you look for certain things in a song. I think I did that with this."ĭirlam has been playing his hip-hop infused version of the track all summer he sat down with me to talk about the process of turning Adele's song into a dance track. Whatever makes you excited or happy in the moment, or has the girl next to you singing at the top of her lungs, that's what you want in a summer song. "You think about the summer, everyone is happy, tan, they have time off to go on vacation, you want music that's going to be a soundtrack to your life during that time. "Summer jams have to be danceable," he says. Dirlam loved the original, but wanted to make something more fit for a summer dance party. One of the earliest of remixes of the song was made by Liam Dirlam, a producer who goes under the alias Voodoo Farm. MTV reported that Steve Angello, David Guetta, Laidback Luke, DJ Chuckie and Avicii all played takes on the song at the Tomorrowland Festival. Alastair Duncan, a publicist for DJ Kaskade, told me this week that at every major music festival he went to this summer, he heard countless versions of the single from Adele's second album, and in July This summer, at electronic music festivals across the country, Adele's voice rang out strong time and time again. ![]() The production is sparse, leaving ample room to work around her powerful voice. But that's partly what makes it such a great song to remix. It may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a dance track: Adele's vocals, rather than any type of groove, are the focal point, and they lay long and heavy over a relatively flat bass kick. Part of what makes the case for "Rolling In The Deep" as the song of the summer is the number of people who danced to it. ![]() "As opposed to a lot of other videos that can start off big and then taper off, or start off big and remain huge, it really grew gradually." "If you look at the chart of how the views spread for that video, it wasn't until the summer that it really took off," Allocca says. YouTube trends manager Kevin Allocca says that it took some time for the song to gather steam. The music video for the song has over 123 million views on YouTube. 1 onīillboard's Hot 100 chart in May, and stayed there for seven weeks straight. She's also moved on and is now dating Simon Konecki, a 36-year-old divorced entrepreneur who now heads the charity Drop4Drop."Rolling In The Deep" came out last November, not when summer jams usually get released, butĪdele's monster hit didn't reach its peak popularity until the summertime. "Adele likes to keep part of her life back for herself, but it's an open secret that Slinky was the guy who inspired 21," the source told the Post, describing him as a "seriously good-looking guy…(with) a great body" and "crazy hair (like) Jimi Hendrix" who was "the life and soul of the party." The source goes on to say, "It's easy to see what attracted Adele to him," but noted that the relationship "was always going to end in tears, and those tears were always going to be Adele's."Īdele has since said that she's forgiven Mr. Also known as Slinky Sunbeam, the 25-year-old musician was fingered as the inspiration for the 21 songs including "Rolling in the Deep," and "Someone Like You." Though Adele has indicated that she and the man who inspired those songs simply "grew apart," the source tells the Post that the romance failed because Slinky got involved with a Burberry model named Morwenna Lytton Cobbold. It's no secret that Adele mined her love life to pen her Grammy-winning album 21, but there have been no details about the guy who broke the singer's heart and inspired all those songs - until now.Ī source told the New York Post that the alleged cad is a man named Slinky Winfield.
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