I’m going to start by putting it out there: this is one of my favourite remixes of the whole wide year. A brief background: Bright Light Bright Light aka Rod Thomas is a retro-inspired synthpop artist who’s on the verge of hitting the big time. Fear of Tigers aka Benjamin Berry produces what in my opinion is the best podcast around at the moment – The Guestlist – and also from time to time some music of his own, which is really rather awesome.

Speaking of the music, let’s get back to the remix. Laying its 80s roots bare at the very beginning, the stage is set for what is an all-consumingly, resplendently retro take. Where the original is pure bittersweet beauty, Fear of Tigers overlays Rod’s heartbreakingly vulnerable vocals with layers of 80s synths and stabs, vocoders, a glorious guitar breakdown, several large nods to Queen and sound effects that a Lady Gaga and Beyonce duet would be proud of. And the whole thing works – brilliantly. The result is big, shiny, unashamedly happy and, ironically, it’s ended up as a perfect Disco Moment in itself. Well, how about that?

Bright Light Bright Light – 03 Disco Moment (Fear of Tigers Remix) by Freeman PR

The ‘Disco Moment’ EP is out today on iTunes, including the FoT remix, and you should go and get a copy here. I would like to point out at this stage that I already have, but being short on time it was easier to embed a simple Soundcloud clip than faff around with converting mp4 to mp3 blah blah yawn…

Also, Bright Light Bright Light was on The Guestlist a couple of weeks ago – you can listen again here.