Mark Ronson – “I Can’t Lose (Duke Dumont Remix)”
Mark Ronson mined the sounds of ’80s funk down to the bone on Uptown Special, and he found a great gift in the soulful highs of Keyone Starr, a previously unknown preacher’s daughter from Mississippi who sings on a few of the tracks on that album. A new remix from current UK electronic darling Duke Dumont keeps the voice, but strips the funk away and replaces it with another vestige of the ’80s: house music. It’s tailor-made for the club, and recalls the way a lot of early electronic dance music borrowed from the sounds of soul and disco. Everything comes full circle. Listen below.
Uptown Special is out now via RCA. Read our interview with Ronson.