Feist's "My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Classic Mix)"

You know the song test. Hear a song. Buy / illegally download the song. Play a song. Listen intently. Repeat. If it starts to get stale and flavorless (much like gum after about an hour), then you appreciate it for what it is and move on.
But what if it doesn't? Those are the ones that you listen to, pick apart, digest, and potentially never listen to again, or don't listen to again until they come up on a playlist, or on the radio, but when you do hear it, it's like being reunited with an old friend where it's never awkward.
That's how I feel every time I hear this remix. I love the original. Feist's breathy voice curling delicately with electric guitar is damn near perfect.
But there's something about the Boys Noize remix that resonates one level beyond where a pop song can, and perhaps it's because of the dance undertones. A German producer best known for his deconstructed sound in the Kitsune / Because music vein, Alexander Rhida he could easily had torn this tune apart. But the gentle way in which he handles the original shows a well deserved respect, and makes for a remix that is refreshingly more about subtlety than an ego stamp.
Rhida smartly decides to leave Leslie Feist's vocals untouched, supplementing them instead with a deep digitized voice that provides a stark contrast to her plaintive whispers. The effect is definitely surreal, bordering on eerie but floats somewhere between pop, dance, chillout and ballad.
Rhida never loses sight of vocals, and will even pull away insrumentals to the point of acapella. What really gets me is when he drops out the electric guitar and adds analog blips which have a talking musicality to them that gives me faith in the idea of a soul in electronic music. The resulting version plays cool and calm at 6:42, unhurriedly, and punctuated with the right amount of electronica, as well as delicious airy bits of violin for a soundscape that is truly ethereal.

To listen to the remix you can watch the YouTube "video" here.

You can check out the original and video here.

Or just buy them. Seriously, it'll cost you less than two bucks.