If the “Space Time Surfer EP” charts a journey through parallel dimensions of rhythm and introspection, then Christopher Ledger’s remix of “Let Yourself Go” is the vessel that folds spacetime into a soft cocoon of musical elegance – a spacecraft carved from light and logic.
Where Donnie Cosmo’s original track zigzags through breakbeat terrains like a cosmic serpent shedding skin mid-flight, Ledger’s version gently reshapes the momentum, slowing the breath, elongating the moment. It’s as if the track inhales deeply before entering another orbit – one less turbulent, more translucent, yet still pulsing with quiet propulsion.
Ledger’s rework doesn’t just remix; it refracts. Every element is bathed in an ethereal clarity, as though the original’s raw edges have been smoothed by stardust. The drums remain crisp but delicate, a constellation of percussive clicks that tether the track to gravity, while gauzy pads swirl like the solar wind around a dying star – soft, spectral, infinite. The bassline, once rubbery and restless, now floats with purpose, less of a groove and more of a gravitational wave guiding the listener through a dream-state.
At times, the remix feels like an X-ray of the original: the same bones, but exposed, elevated, reinterpreted. It’s music for the after-hours thinker, the dancer who’s stopped moving but hasn’t stopped listening. There’s a stillness here that paradoxically buzzes with life, like staring into deep space and realizing it’s not empty -it’s just waiting for you to look longer.
As the final offering on Shuffle Valley’s debut vinyl, Ledger’s remix doesn’t just close the record – it completes it. Like the last page of a novel that lingers in your mind long after the story ends, it’s a reminder that letting yourself go is sometimes less about movement and more about surrender.
Words by Holger Breuer
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