History revision: The art of the disco edit

Gergely Szilveszter Horváth is a producer from Hungary who has released under the aliases Route 8 and Q3a. Recently he dropped a disco-inspired EP on his own label This Is Our Time under his DJ Ciderman alias. These tracks certainly aren’t edits in the original sense, but they also aren’t remixes and there is just a little too much of it to be claimed as a sample. If anything, it’s an example of how producers can rework disco tracks into palatable club weapons for 2017. The drums have been beefed up on ‘Summer Groove’ a track that takes its cue from 80s boogie band Mirage’s song of the same name. ‘Be Mine’ is given a pumping kick drum, cuts out the sugary verses and uses filters to build tension. Horváth says he isn’t just here to cut, he wants to create something new.

“The sound has changed a lot [since the original edits] and everyone wants a really pumping, compressed sound and those disco tracks were kind of soft. But if you put some more drums in it they can go really hard," he says.

“I’ve loved disco for a long time and I always did some small edits of random disco tracks but for this DJ Ciderman project I wanted to not just cut some tracks, I also wanted to add some synths and some drums so they kind of turn into a new track.

“Sometimes I think it is a bit easy because they didn’t change anything and they just put a 909 or a random drum on the whole track and that’s all.

“I just listen to tracks and I’m looking for that kind of plus you know. That kind of melody that really pulls you in and you want to dance and hug the people around you.”