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Release Date
9 February 2024
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Length
20 tracks
RAVE:N, The Remixes, a project released on February 9, 2024, in which the D.C.-born, L.A.-based artist’s peers will reinterpret tracks from her February 2023 LP, Raven. It’s accompanied by the forthcoming record’s lead single — Karen Nyame KG’s take on “Contact” — and a visual “vignette.”
The original video for “Contact” found Kelela in a hotel room, preparing for a night out. Yasser Abubeker’s clip for the new remix — a cloudy, trance-inspired flip — is also set in a hotel room, but it’s both more zoomed in and more abstract, showing Kelela in shillouette as she looks out over a Tokyo cityscape.
“Sometimes I feel like I make original tracks just to experience the remix,” Kelela says in a press release. “I think about how something will be interpolated while I’m writing and recording. Each one is exhilarating to hear/add to and KG’s remix was no exception. It’s hitting supreme levels of sexy—makes me wanna seduce someone on the dance floor. I saw a tweet yesterday in response to the teaser for this song that said: ‘One thing bout you? You gon’ imagine then RE-imagine a body of work.’ and it made me feel so seen.”
Collaborations include Agazero, bbymutha, Karen Nyame KG, Flexulant, BAMBII, RAHRAH GABOR, Brazy, JD. REID, Shygirl, SUCIA!, Ethereal, Liv.e, DJ Swisha, TYGAPAW, Rochelle Jordan,
LSDXOXO, DJ Manny, LEECH, Nightfeelings, KYRUH, A.G, Nguzunguzu, DJ GAY-Z, River Moon, ThugPop, TAYHANA, Yaeji, Loraine James, DJ LHC, SUUTOO, and Ms. Carrie Stacks.
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