“It was a quiet time in the studio, so we just had fun with the vocals and took it up in tempo. “It took maybe two or three days,” he recalls. Singer Mike Posner on Writing for Maroon 5 & Releasing His Long-Awaited Second AlbumĪccording to Eriksrud, the “Ibiza” remix was made quickly and casually. Every second of their tracks is really well-crafted.” “It couldn’t be a DJ remixer – it had to be more of a producer to go in and rework the record.” “What differentiates from other producers that type of melodic house is they are really good craftsmen,” adds Rune Gronn, the A&R who helped sign the duo to Universal Music. “I knew what the remix needed,” D’Arduini says. “I always thought of them as producers.” But that actually made Seeb perfect for this job. “I never thought of them as remixers,” he continues. (Seeb produced “Over Myself,” the second-to-last track on Kiesza’s Sound Of A Woman album.) “I find their productions to be very thought out.” “I connected with Seeb through a close friend, Rami Samir Afuni, who developed Kiesza,” D’Arduini remembers. Matt D’Arduini, VP of A&R at Island Records, thought Berg and Eriksrud would be good candidates to rework Posner’s single. “In a way it’s sad,” Eriksrud tells Billboard over the phone. Though Posner sings, “all I know are sad songs,” the jaunty forward progression belies his glum statement. A synth backdrop gives the remix a Kygo-like bounce, pleasant and slight. Seeb condenses Posner’s track into something more aerodynamic and significantly shorter, shaving more than a minute off the ballad. Watch Mike Posner Perform ‘I Took a Pill in Ibiza (Seeb Remix)’ Live: Exclusive
A drum enters near the one minute mark, but the rhythm is a secondary consideration – guitar chords hang in the air as the singer unfurls a lengthy narrative about grappling with the soul-crushing machinery of pop stardom: “You don’t wanna be high like me/ Never really knowing why like me.” Posner’s original song is a predominately acoustic ballad, with a voice high in the mix. Mike Posner on His Avicii-Inspired Hit ‘I Took a Pill in Ibiza’ and Hitting a ‘Dark Spot’ in His Career It’s important that the song doesn’t become too pushy – at the moment, slower tempos are more fashionable, consequently Seeb’s “I Took A Pill In Ibiza” hovers near 100 bpm. The other key to a popular remix in recent years is of course the beat, pushing forward the original with a steady but unsurprising rhythm. Probz has textured scrape, and Omi is feather-light, the embodiment of sonic weightlessness. A distinct vocal helps a remix: Del Rey’s calling card is her somnolent swoon, while Mr. First there’s Posner’s voice, which has a grating edge that commands attention. Looking back at the success of the new version of “I Took A Pill In Ibiza,” Eriksrud describes the smash as “art by accident.” He didn’t expect it to explode: “Nobody knew it would become that big.”īut Seeb’s track does share a few qualities with other recent remixes that performed well on the pop charts. Seeb is a Norwegian duo consisting of Espen Berg and Simen Eriksrud.
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