Remixed: Jessie Ware

Call it what you want, most successful singers today have to prove they can roll with dance music. Kiesza, Ellie Goulding, and the like have been doing it and it’s launched their careers to new heights. Jessie Ware has certainly enjoyed a wonderful beginning to her career but like the others, she hasn’t done it without the help of dance music. She's seen success come with electronic producers (like Disclosure, Julio Bashmore, and SBTRKT), so it only makes sense that there would be a number of solid remixes of her material. Let's run through the best remixes of Jessie Ware's work.

Urulu's dub is an understated funky yet smooth deep house cut in the truest sense. There are no garage basslines nor are their spire synth presets, but rather a classy lounge vibe and stacatto'd piano chops lacing this airy one. Jessie's vocals are nearly non-existent, but this version makes up for it with it's own beautiful ambiance.

Cyril Hahn has a diverse yet distinctly intimate style of music. His take on "Tough Love" brings together an uplifting indie R&B sound with some '80s disco and classic house bits to make something special. It's a track with little extra beyond the bare emotion that this track bathes in, and that's all it needs.

This is an interesting take from Star Slinger, considering that he's more known for his thriving house tunes. His "Wildest Moments" rework dwells in the more downtempo vibe, but keeps you guessing, as he makes sure to spice things up with the percussion. He's still straight-forward with the vocals, that work well with the rhythm that teases you a number of times before never really falling into rave full-on euphoria.

Gorgon City has proven themselves nearly unmatched when it comes to producing vocal-led deep house bombs. While it's not an original work like their stellar debut album Sirens, their take on Jessie Ware's "Say You Love Me" certainly embodies just how talented the guys are. This spacey/dreamy take works like a charm with Jessie's sexy soulful style.

Zed Bias is great when it comes to channeling the freshest part of a tune with a proper rework, and his take on "Wildest Moments" honed in on a key melody that Jessie sung, making his entire remix embody the soul and spirit in that subtle bit. It punches up the slower original with ease, without Jessie's vocals getting caught up in the rapture.

Jessie's vocal sounds just as perfect on this disco-tinged rework from Joe Goddard as it does on the original, but Joe found a way to channel them in a different direction. The hook is catchy as hell, and the track Joe constructed around it is so full of electronic bliss and hypnotic tension that's there's no real way to escape its beauty. One of those remixes that'll grab a hold mid-way and not refuse to let go.

Todd Edwards doing anything is pretty damn exquisite, but the way he applied his garage vibe to Jessie's "No To Love" is beautiful. Channeling the soul that resides in "No To Love," Todd funneled that into this rework, wrap a number of fierce blankets around that chorus and set them free on this constantly-changing groove.

Jessie Ware and T. Williams share an imprint (PMR), so it makes sense that T would get the chance to throw his soulful spin on "Wildest Moments." A full-on club affair, T does the most with chopping Jessie's phrases into their own elements, repeating and playing with their delivery over a groove that's ass sexy and it is smooth.

French Express's Perseus take has a refined smoothness and subtly that unforutnately has become oh-so-rare in today's dance music. The stripped-back appeal of this remix can't be missed, as Perseus layers Jessie's strong vocal work over a chilled thump, a warm, subtle sub, and various other random elements (twinkling melodies that come and go, quirky blips, that male chorus, and more). And as an added bonus, this is the kind of bit that's perfect for you and bae to turn down to.

George Fitzgerald's deep and techy take on "No To Love" is a churning and chugging number with a grooving bassline. The sheer size that Fitzgerald creates on this one is kind of nuts and the way he fits in the vocal in there so that it sits in the front of the mix yet is so clearly backed by something so big, is special. Fitzgerald and Ware together needs to happen more, because they could come out with classics if they sound anything like this.

Sango is one of those names that routinely comes across the DAD HQ desk and for good reason. 99% of the time this Michigan-based producer releases something, we love it. His take on Jessie's "Tough Love" is a deep and sensuous cut with trap stylings and that future R&B flavor that so many are hoping on to. Sango keeps the sound fresh with his nuanced take, layering the vocals over each other giving, it a really full feeling despite the track's lush and expansive soundscapes.

Disclosure is an upper echelon dance music act these days and their take on Jessie Ware's "Running" is part of that. It's obviously not a big as the success of "Latch" and not by a long shot, but the remix did help cement Disclosure's place prior to the release of their now smash album, Settle. This remix brought their rehashed yet fresh take on pop-inflected garage to the forefront of a bubbling movement. Perhaps this track has been just as helpful to Ware's career as it has for Disclosure.