Slander’s ‘Superhuman’ Goes PsyTrance With Gammer Remix
Slander‘s ‘Superhuman’ featuring Eric Leva was one of the biggest tracks of the summer. Reaching over 1 million listens on YouTube, and over 2.7 MILLION Spotify streams in under 6 months, ‘Superhuman’ was a super-hit. As it is with most EDM hits with such incredible vocals, we were due for a remix, and what a remix we got. Fellow Monstercat buddy Gammer got his hands on ‘Superhuman’ and we are going PSYYYYYY.
Gammer‘s remix is one of the best remixes of the past few months in my opinion. Isolating Eric Leva’s masterful vocals in the beginning really doesn’t give you any idea on where the track is going. After the isolated vocals, we get a hard style, Gammer’ish build up that I fully expecting a hard style drop from. What we got was…welll….PSYTRANCE. When this psytrance drop hit my jaw hit the ground. Going from isolated vocals, to hard style, to psytrance really shows Gammer’s production skill.
Check out the remix below & let’s get Psy!
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Slander weren’t always the bass-heavy melodic act people know now
Scott Land and Derek Andersen had been grinding as Slander for a while by the time “Superhuman” hit, building their name across trap and bass music before they’d fully lock into the emotional, vocal-driven style that eventually became their signature. A track this vocal-forward is a good early example of that shift already starting to take shape, years before Slander became known as one of the go-to acts for that specific blend of heavy drops and genuine songwriting.
Gammer coming from hardcore made this genre-jump wilder than it looks
What makes this remix stand out is that Gammer’s roots are in UK hardcore and hard dance, a scene that’s usually pretty far removed from psytrance’s hypnotic, trippy style. Pulling off a convincing psytrance drop when that’s not your home genre takes a real understanding of what makes the sound work rhythmically, not just borrowing the aesthetic. That’s probably why the switch-up from hardstyle build to psytrance drop landed as a genuine surprise instead of feeling like a gimmick.
Eric Leva became a go-to Monstercat vocalist off tracks like this
Eric Leva’s vocal on “Superhuman” wasn’t a one-off feature, he went on to become a recurring voice across the Monstercat roster, lending vocals to multiple other releases on the label in the years after this track blew up. That’s the kind of pattern that shows up a lot in the Monstercat ecosystem, a vocalist lands one breakout feature and suddenly every producer on the label wants to work with them, which is exactly what happened here once “Superhuman” started racking up millions of streams.
