His bandmate, Nick Littlemore, says producing the deceptively simple disco-tinged medley of John jams was a challenge to get just right. “Streaming has changed the game, so we really wanted to have a big single, so I guess we tried harder to use the big Elton vocals this time around,” explains Mayes. The trio decided that this time around, they would grab vocals from one of John’s best-known songs, “Sacrifice,” and re-imagine it mashed up with “Kiss the Bride,” plus “Rocket Man.”
And a lot of the vocal tracks we had were huge iconic Elton John hits, and we’d sort of stayed away from them on the previous album intentionally, as we wanted to unearth a lot of lesser known Elton records and vocals then.” Then Elton was like, ‘Do you wanna do some more?’ and we had a lot of his vocals that we hadn’t really touched upon. 1 in the U.K., which was a great moment for us. … We did an album with Elton that came out in 2012 and it went No. He first discovered us in Australia around 2007, and we even moved to London and then took up with his management company at the time. Says Mayes: “We’ve been working with Elton for about 15 years now.
#Cold heart pnau remix update#
So how did Pnau, a long-established group down under with its own following among electronic music fans, get the opportunity to work with Elton John and update his classic songs “Rocket Man,” “Kiss the Bride” and “Sacrifice” via a remix (which also uses elements of another more obscure John tune) to turn it into an entirely new composition?
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