The members of Brooklyn dance-pop outfit Restless People might have their hearts in the right place, but their band isn’t what we’d call, you know, good. The original version of “Days of Our Lives” is a bit of a trainwreck that leans heavily on uncomfortably emotive vocals and misguided rave nostalgia (think Tiesto synths), but this remix by Kingdom (pictured above) wisely whittles out the awful and transforms the song into a quality piece of taut house music. Pitch-shifting the vocals into a lower register is a vast improvement, as is the subtraction of the original’s chipmunky vocal snippets and dabblings in Eurodance. Kingdom’s version puts the snapping drums out front, and relies on bass stabs and lazer-like synth swooshes to fill out the melody. To hear more of his fine craftsmanship, check out That Mystic, his new EP on Night Slugs—a streaming preview is available here—which drops this week. (via Pitchfork)

Restless People – Days Of Our Lives (Kingdom Remix)