I went to work creating my own rendition of the song staring with real instruments: piano, strings, and orchestral percussion to create some theatrical tension leading up to the hard hitting melodic drops, which share sounds and influences from my past releases in the future bass, dubstep, and trap realms. As I was just sent the vocal stem, I was given the chance to let my production shine through, crafting an entire instrumental to Annika's voice and Nick's vocal editing. I was super inspired to jump right in, but practiced restraint as I wanted to maintain the structure and raw emotional, melodic orchestral feel to the song with my own production.

I had met Nick at a couple of festivals and shows we played together and with the culmination of all of this, I reached out to Nick (Illenium) over Twitter messages to make a remix, to which he sent over the vocal stems. I think electronic dance music as a whole is really lacking songs with raw and emotional vocals like Annika's, many producers get lost in making intro, break, build, drop, repeat and I think it really takes away from many productions these days. Needless to say, the original left me extremely inspired. Annika's vocals really spoke to me and the moment I heard her voice I was attracted to her raw talent and emotion in her incredible vocal performance. When Illenium released Crawl Outta Love I immediately fell in love with the arrangement, structure, and melodic vibe of the track.

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