Sometimes simplicity for simplicity’s sake is the best policy. Flume has stripped Disclosure’s original track of “You & Me” down to a single sample from the chorus and then slowed it down and sexed it up with lush layered strings and a basic beat. The video is also appropriately stripped down (in both the literal and figurative sense), with the only footage being that of a young couple making out. Disclosure’s had great success with sexy beats and people making out in the past (if you don’t remember, go re-watch “Latch”, number 20 on my Top 20 Music Videos of 2012). That same formula works wonders yet again with this music video:
Compare the Flume remix to the original track, a 2-step garage banger featuring the vocals of Eliza Doolittle, which was already a great song but now seems boring in comparison: