SOTD #113 // Die Neue Mythologen: 'Sweet Dreams (Beyoncé Cover)'

There are many thousands of reworkings and cover versions floating around out there. If YouTube is a testament to anything, it’s to how bad most of those interpretations are, as thousands of wannabe teens strum their way heart heartedly through ‘Hey There Delilah’ before uploading and praying for some clueless record executive to take pity on them. But there are some that, thankfully, manage to make a decent job of it.

Or, in Die Neue Mythologen’s case, some manage to make a superb go of it. Anyone who manages to take on Beyoncé Knowles and wins is destined to go down in the history books, but when someone does it with the grace of this remix, it’s beyond astounding. The witch house genre has already set to pop music, with oOoOO taking on Lady Gaga’s Poker Face with ‘PCKRFCRMX’, but this takes it to the next level, a beguiling mishmash of samples strung together to create 6 minutes of post-pop heaven.

Translating to English as The New Mythology, the music is a rush on the sense – something that is probably highly connected to the fact that it’s techinically a side-project of Swedish electronic collective Pistol Disco. Whilst we might all be a little bit sick of Mrs. Knowles’ dominance over the airwaves at the minute, if the end result is the likes of this then we can only be pleased.

Expect an official release from Die Neu Mythologen later this year via Service.

Die Neue Mythologen: ‘Sweet Dreams (Beyonce Cover)’