Fontaines DC are reborn as punk-funk disconauts, and the results are cracking Belgian DJs Soulwax have released a glittering remix of Fontaines DC’s A Hero’s Death
Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 05:30 Ed Power
In a year in which a terrible hush drowned out everything else, Fontaines DC’s A Hero’s Death provided a rare reason to the cheerful. The Dublin five-piece’s second album came out last July – that phoney moment of high summer when it almost felt the pandemic had gone away.
The world has shut down since then but now Fontaines DC are opening up. A remix of A Hero’s Death by Belgian DJs and producers Soulwax – aka brothers David and Stephen Dewaele – has just been released and gives the Dubliners a glittering retro-electro makeover.
Soulwax / Fontaines D.C. s Grian Chatten (Picture: Press / Getty)
Soulwax have shared their remix of Fontaines D.C.âs âA Heroâs Deathâ – you can listen to the duo’s new reworking of the Fontaines track below.
The original song is the title track from the Dublin band’s second album, which was released back in July.
Soulwax have turned their attention to ‘A Hero’s Death’ with their latest remix, with the Dewaele brothers saying in a statement about the track: “Whatever the part of the brain is that sparks the idea for a remix when you hear a great song, even though it doesn’t always work, it was definitely fully functional when we heard ‘A Hero’s Death’.”
Soulwax have discussed how their surprise new single ‘Empty Dancefloor’ was inspired by the world’s clubs falling silent as a result of the coronavirus lockdown – while remaining confident that nightlife will return stronger than ever. Watch our video interview with the duo above.
The Belgian dance-rock legends dropped the new track last week, after it was written for the campaign for Apple’s new Airpod Max headphones but was deemed too “great” to not be released as a single.
“We made it in a couple of days and it was done like two weeks ago,” Soulwax’s Stephen Dewaele told