Hear How To Dress Well Remix The-Dream, Carly Rae Jepsen, Janet Jackson And More

Posted by Katherine St Asaph on 06/04/2012 at 5:15 PM News

The Popdust Files: a$ ap rocky, carly rae jepsen, how to dress well, janet jackson, melanie fiona, mixtapes, remixes, the-dream

Indie R&B act How To Dress Well, real name Tom Krell, is sort of like the precursor to acts like The Weeknd, making a sort of distorted, spacey, stylish (it’s even in the name) hybrid of R&B and ambient music. This particular genre drift has come with some controversy–particularly among those who accuse them of being unfairly praised over less trendy, less morose R&B acts–but you can hear its influence everywhere, even outside the blog world; Drake and Frank Ocean owe a lot to it, and more recently, Usher’s “Climax” shares the same hushed feel.

In other words, he’s the sort of artist who’d get ridiculous amounts of press for a mixtape even if it didn’t contain remixes of (deep breath) The-Dream, Melanie Fiona, Janet Jackson, A$ AP Rocky, and more, including the year’s most desirable source material, Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.” If you’ve heard his old material, you know what to expect here: heavy atmospherics, pitch-shifting, reverb everywhere. Listen to the 43-minute mix below, check out Interview Magazine‘s feature on him, then scroll down for a full tracklisting:

LIVE YOURSELF by How To Dress Well

0. TOTAL LOSS
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NttJWWUvXPw
2. cfcf- exercise #2
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HurjdE2ry0o
4. xiu xiu- i broke up (fag patrol acoustic version)
5. BELIEVE IN MY LOVE//LEAVE ME
6. melanie fiona – 4am (HTDW SPEED BREAKS REPETITION MIX)
7. asap rocky – leaf (HTDW SICK AND TIRED REPETITION MIX)
8. future – ain’t no way around it (HTDW U CAN’T TELL THE HOMIE NOTHING HE DONE FELT TOO MUCH PAIN REPETITION MIX)
9. WHOEVER WANTS 2 LOVE US IS WELCOME WHOEVER IS AGAINST US GET OUT
10. janet jackson – special
11. the dream – shawty is da shit remix (feat. r. kelly) (HTDW REPETITION INTRO)
12. future – straight up
13. hype williams – jericho
14. dizzee rascal – imagine + xiu xiu – i broke up
15. HTDW – world i need you, won’t be without you (proem)
16. coco rosie – beautiful boyz (feat. antony) (HTDW CHORUS EDIT)
17. akos rozmann – 12 stations
18. 빅뱅 – bad boy
19. janet jackson – someone to call my lover (Hex Hector/Mac Quayle Radio Edit)
20. physical therapy – call me maybe vs mad drumz
21. carly rae jepsen – call me maybe (HTDW LOL EMPHASIS MIX HAHAHA)
22. janet jackson – empty
23. TOTAL LOSS

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