I am a great believer in letting PR companies do my writing for me, with that in mine I am going to let them tell you the story of Wankelnut, who, one day, was studying philosophy and next had a viral house music hit that is huge in Europe: "In autumn 2011 Jacob Dilßner aka Wankelmut was a young 24-year old student and part-time dj who had just relocated to his hometown Berlin to study philosophy and political science. Then one night he started playing around with one of his favourite songs in Ableton Live, cutting, filtering and adding a simple 4/4 groove until Asaf Avidan & The Mojos’ bitter-sweet folk song „One Day/Reckoning Song“ turned into what has now become one of house music’s biggest anthems of 2012."
The remix of "One Day/Reckoning" by Asaf Avidan and the Mojos blew up on him and the next thing Jacob knew, the old four on the floor had done its magic again. The song is awesome, extremely catchy and easy to, well, easy to clap along to. You can set your metronome to the sucker, it's like kinetic energy, a never ending infinite exercise in kinetic energy.
Asaf Avidan himself is an Israeli folk rocker and his Mojos had been fringing out for five years, finally packing it in earlier this year to go solo (how you pack in what amounts to a solo career to go solo…) and ironically, discovered he was a huge star.
The remix is very addictive, it is a chorus on a loop that goes round and round and round. Did I mention the song broke big? "From here the Cinderella story continued. Only eight months after Wankelmut unassumingly uploaded the song, the Berlin-based dj and producer got irrevocably catapulted from mere obscurity into full-on popstardom, topping the charts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands and various other european countries. In Germany „One Day/Reckoning Song“ managed to simultaneously hit the #1 spot in the national charts, the itunes charts and on Beatport. This happened for the first time in history, leading to platinum sales status."
Will it break here? Musically, well 1) it is in English and 2) it is ALL HOOK. A revolving hook! So, yeah, it should break Stateside….