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Premiere: Kiosk ID calls on Sascha Cawa for darkly dramatic reimagination of Britta Arnold’s ‘Nüwa’

Rebecca Besnos
Melodic Techno, News, Premieres
24 March 2025

For Kiosk ID 36th release, one of the most storied Kater artists adds another chapter to her signature brand of stripped, acid-touched Deep House, and in spectacular fashion: Britta Arnold’s ‘Kaktus Rodeo’ is a sprawling, hypnotic six-tracker that includes three originals and three carefully curated reimaginations by Steve Challier, Sascha Cawa, and Brian Cid that infuse her floor-focused energy with mangled notes of shuddering darkness.

‘Kaktus Rodeo’ unfolds as a staccato groover built around springy figures of blips and stabs and prickly percussion. Tongue-in-cheek, eerie, and inherently trance-inducing, Britta’s title track draws its power from an eclectic array of influences ranging from breathy hymnal voices to resonating fields of mangled bells, all artfully suffused into a stripped, infectious groove. Steve Challier’s edit spotlights the original’s bubbling depths, transforming ‘Kaktus Rodeo’ into a dubby, circuit-bent House edition that casts a cloud of shuffling drums across deep fields of chords and rolling subs.

Cavernous and hypnotic, ‘Nüwa’ ft. Tatyana cycles through cascading figures of spaced-out blips and conga hits across a darkly hovering pad. Tatyana’s spoken-word mantra leads the listener through a maze of clanging impacts anchored by an electric arp and a dubby, slow-burning groove. Sascha Cawa’s version imbues ‘Nüwa’ with a powerfully cinematic sense of drama. Staggered bursts of laser- sharp synth hits and arcing swells set to a minimal, sub-heavy groove conjure a darkly oscillating cyclone of blown-out pads, clattering percussive effects, and glitchy vocal effects.

‘The Calling’ also featuring Tatyana contrasts biting, acid-infused stabs with a cloud of glassy synth figures. Britta conjures an overcast flurry of clattering synths and samples atop a shuddering substructure, combining a jarring array of elements into an eerily hypnotic dancefloor seance. Artfully coaxing the original’s revolving darkness into an anthemic framework of heavyweight drums and spaced-out pads, Brian Cid’s version moves ‘The Calling’ closer to peak-time territory with an artfully groovy and approachable rendition.

You can now listen to the full premiere of Sascha Cawa’s ‘Nüwa’ remix, exclusively on When We Dip. Enjoy!

Release Date: March 28th, 2025. Buy Here

Sascha Cawa: Instagram // SoundCloud
Britta Arnold: Instagram // SoundCloud
Kiosk I.D.: Instagram // SoundCloud

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