CRYME’s ‘London Boy – Remixes’ : A Multi-Faceted Alt Electronica Feast

CRYME is a Berlin-based electronic music artist with a specialty in house and techno. The artist expands energy, creating such vast spaces for his listeners to experience and inhabit. He released ‘London Boy’ in late 2023, as part of ‘The Back Room EP’. With a driving techno flow, excited by drifting percussion and rapidly spoken verses and lines, the song scales fantastically. The rhythm absorbs the vocals as part of itself. There’s a sense of continuity, fluidity and modernity in the way CRYME drives forward with this song. Such a fresh way to experience techno. It is dry, crisp, and full of that punk flavour, driving it to the top of his list as the most streamed song.

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Fast forward to 2025. CRYME has released ‘London Boy : Remixes’ EP, in which he collaborates with artists ANTICALM, MCR-T, Roza Terenzi, JakoJako, and Stef de Haan to create five more versions of this song. While the core of it is retained, each one takes a unique stylistic journey to bring it home. The song becomes greater with these sonic perspectives and elements. The edge, the fun, the effect and the energy is on a rotation.

The MCR-T remix drives London Boy into a drum n bass sphere. It gets fitted with these chic and sophisticated, free-flowing bass lines. Playing out with drive, swagger, power, and a drift, the song opens up with such cool features. The robotic voices, unstoppable beats, and vocal speed creates that tunnel vision. All of this based on a techno highway that you can keep skating on.

Roza Terenzi brings drum n bass grooves to the song. Like bubbles, the grooves grow and pop, over and over again. There’s also a plane of jagged basslines running linearly across this circular scene. It’s a whole valley of bass features through which the song is routed. The vocals take a back seat, veiled by the translucent textures and galloping grooves.

The JakoJako remix has a sharper, faster, and hard-hitting take. He leans into the momentum and feeds it till it runs by itself, along the edge, at the brink and takes you with it. The dance beats multiply. The beat pumps are addictive and the vocals are celebrated. There’s so much cohesion, especially rhythmically. If your brain likes that, like to go off the hinge into an infinite symmetry, then you’ll love this version.

Lastly, the Stef de Haan version comes alive with melodies and wet color. A mellow ambience starts to form in the backdrop which presents such an elegant contrast. It lets you stray and loop back in, in your own way. It’s not hard core but it is still hard hitting. ANTICALM and CRYME still hit all the vocal nights, but this time, there’s a melodic story swirling around it. You can see the horizon where techno and mellow house collide. A great way to conclude the EP.