What's actually on Faithless Reworks?
Two tracks, two generations. Drumcode boss Adam Beyer takes on "We Come 1," the 2001 Faithless anthem from their album Outrospective, and rebuilds it into a driving, peak-time techno tool. An alternate mix is exclusive to Beatport.
KASIA, one of the faster-rising names on this year's festival circuit, handles the second track, "Tarantula," bringing a harder, more contemporary edge to the original.
Why does the 30-year coincidence matter?
Drumcode was founded by Beyer in Stockholm in 1996 and has spent three decades becoming one of techno's defining institutions, the label behind Beyer's own Drumcode Radio and a roster that shaped the genre's peak-time sound worldwide. Faithless formed around the same period and turned "We Come 1" and "Insomnia" into rave and big-beat standards that outlived the era they came from.
Pairing them isn't nostalgia for its own sake. It's two catalogs from adjacent but distinct scenes, big-room 2000s dance and underground techno, meeting on the same record in the year both hit the same milestone. As We Rave You put it:
"Faithless have always had one foot in the club, and hearing their biggest records rebuilt for today's techno floors shows how well those hooks still travel."
Where does this land on the floor?
This isn't a remix sitting untested on a shelf. Beyer's "We Come 1" rework has been running through his sets all summer, including his Resistance Ibiza residency at Amnesia, so it arrives already proven at peak time rather than as a one-off tribute. KASIA's own summer, spanning ARC Music Festival, Resistance Ibiza and Anyma's AEDEN at [UNVRS], put her rework in front of the same rooms before the release even landed.
