Adele – “Hello (DJDS Acid Mix)”
Look: If you’re sick of Adele right now, we get it. We’ve run a whole goddam lot of Adele stories over the past few weeks. But it’s been a long, long time since we’ve seen any artist in such a world-conquering mode, and other artists are doing whatever they can to get even a bit of that juice. Case in point: The great L.A. dance production duo DJDS (formerly known as DJ Dodger Stadium) have remixed Adele’s monster power ballad “Hello,” turning it into a six-and-a-half-minute house banger. And for what it’s worth, I don’t think this is an attention-grabbing move on DJDS’s part. I don’t think they’d be able to remix “Hello” like this if they didn’t love it. There’s always been a bit of house diva in Adele’s vocals, and on this remix, they bring that side right out of her, using the dramatic sweep of her chorus to light up an absolute banger of a track. Listen to it below.
Adele’s new album 25 is out now on XL/Columbia. DJDS’s Stand Up And Speak is out 1/29 via Loma Vista/Body High.