Naethan - Katy - The Remixes

For the second part of no. 39, Kiosk ID delivers four distinct reinterpretations of Katy and Hybrid Catalysis: Julian Koerndl, Motip White, ĀEMYGDALA, and Johannes Klingebiel follow up Naethan’s emotionally rich electro-acoustic palette, projecting it into new, dancefloor-driven dimensions.

Julian Koerndl strips Katy to its bare percussive essence, conjuring troves of relentless staccato energy. Barrages of squelching 16th-note basslines collide with malfunctioning samplers and glitched-out beeps and blips in a choppy reduction to undiluted dancefloor power—tight, tough, and unapologetically physical.

Motip White transforms Katy into an anthemic technoid vision, anchoring its trippy and emotional core in a searing percussive framework of reverberating rides and shakers. Beautifully building on the original’s laser-sharp sound design and resonant, notched leads, Motip White expands on Katy’s hypnotic depths while keeping things raw, left-field, and captivating.

ĀEMYGDALA transform Hybrid Catalysis into a blazingly bright House journey with subtle tribal undercurrents. Potentiating the original’s dubby warmth and weightlessness, their version gently arcs ecstatic sawtooth strings and radiant chords across a compact and infectiously groovy percussive core—an incandescent four-to-the-floor journey for late nights and early mornings.

Johannes Klingebiel offers a techier rework still, leading Hybrid Catalysis into a groove-driven world of syncopated percussion, ricocheting vocal chops, and shimmering horns. Balancing drum-centric energy with a cloud of luminous synths and delicate electric horns, his version feels both physically grounded and blissfully translucent.