Luke Tangerine & Kate Pending - Mixing Up the “Pastlife Mix” with Future House, Rewiring Nostalgia for the Dancefloor!
- Esther
- May 11
- 3 min read
Updated: May 18
“Pastlife Mix”, the latest release from Frankfurt-based electronic polymath Luke Tangerine and his frequent creative counterpart, Kate Pending, has something undeniably magnetic about it. On the surface, it’s a lush house track, danceable, vibrant, and deeply immersive. But underneath that sheen lies something far more ambitious, a fragmented sonic scrapbook meticulously assembled from the duo’s shared musical DNA. Serving as a dazzling preview of their forthcoming collaborative album Tomorrow’s Dreams of Yesterday, “Pastlife Mix” isn’t just a teaser, it’s a bold artistic statement. It plays like a living mixtape spliced together from dreams, flashbacks, and late-night sessions in analog-streaked studios. It begins with an arresting lo-fi effect, as if you’re stumbling upon a warped cassette left playing somewhere in the ether. Slowly, the track finds its footing and slides into pitch, inviting into a familiar yet unexplored soundscape!
Fans of Luke and Kate’s previous collaborations, like “Sonic Youth” and “ICU”, will spot lyrical and sonic Easter eggs (Kate’s chopped-up vocals from the songs reappear like memories flickering through a fog), but these moments are repurposed, reimagined, and recontextualized in entirely new ways. It's not just remembering, as if you’re reliving them, refracted through time. The song unfolds like a minimalist club opera. Synths rise and fall in sweeping arcs, oscillating between warm deep house grooves and twitchy tech house breakdowns. Rhythmic motifs repeat and mutate like déjà vu, echoing the earlier tracks while evolving into something sleeker, slicker. Kate Pending’s vocals weave in and out, not always in lyrical form, but as atmosphere, whisper, hum, glitch. They serve more as instrumentation than narrative, helping guide the through peaks and valleys in the track’s architecture. There’s a certain ASMR-adjacent tactility to how this track is built. Subtle percussive details—hi-hat flutters, filtered claps, delay-drenched snaps—are given room to breathe, layered over a bassline that doesn’t just support the mix but gives it pulse, gravity, and soul. The result is a groove that feels alive, constantly shapeshifting, straddling the line between cerebral headphone listening and euphoric dancefloor release.
The track feels like it’s reaching for something, some ineffable notion of time, memory, or self. As a listener, you're drawn into a meditative loop that questions not only what you’re hearing, but when you might have heard it before. Is this the future of dance music, or a callback to its past? Luke and Kate’s answer seems to be: it’s both. The pastlife is the current mix. is also a stunning reminder of how far this duo has come. Their chemistry is undeniable, not just in sound but in vision. This isn’t just two producers stacking layers, this is co-authorship in the truest sense. You can feel the mutual trust in every risk taken: the abstract transitions, the buried references, the non-linear arrangement. This is collaborative electronic music at its most mature and most daring. They’ve built a portal. And once you step through it, you may not want to come back. So don’t just stream “Pastlife Mix”, sink into it. Let it wash over you like déjà vu on the dancefloor, like a dream you didn’t know you remembered. It is is only a glimpse of what Tomorrow’s Dreams of Yesterday holds, and they aren’t just revisiting their past, they’re rewriting it in real time. Support them, follow the echoes, and get ready, the future has a memory, and it sounds like this. Listen below!
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