Madeon’s First Remix in 14 Years Reworks Ninajirachi’s “iPod Touch”
Madeon breaks a 14-year remix drought with a rework of Ninajirachi's "iPod Touch" — a song about discovering Madeon himself — built from his teenage FL Studio archives.
Madeon hasn’t put out an official remix since 2012 — and the track that finally pulled him back in is literally a song about him. His rework of Ninajirachi’s “iPod Touch” arrived Friday, and yeah, it’s exactly the full-circle moment you’re hoping it is.
Quick backstory if you missed it: “iPod Touch,” from Ninajirachi’s 2025 debut album I Love My Computer, is autobiographical. It’s about her discovering Madeon’s legendary 2011 “Pop Culture” mashup at age 12 and using it to teach herself production. So how do you remix a song about your own influence on the person who wrote it? According to Madeon, by digging through his earliest FL Studio sessions and building the remix out of sounds from his teenage archives. He even added a brand-new verse drawn from his own memories of that era — not exactly standard remix behavior, but nothing about this situation is standard.
For the record keepers: his last official remix was Martin Solveig’s “The Night Out” back in 2012. Fourteen years is a long time to sit on the sidelines, and he could’ve broken the streak for basically anyone. He chose the Australian producer who grew up on his music. That tells you a lot about how highly he rates her — and honestly, the rest of the scene agrees. Ninajirachi has had a massive twelve months, and she just dropped “WannaCry” with Porter Robinson earlier this month, which means she’s now collected collabs from both halves of the Shelter duo in one summer. Speaking of which, Porter and Madeon are celebrating ten years of “Shelter” with an anniversary vinyl, so the nostalgia levels in this corner of dance music are at an all-time high.
The remix itself? Kaleidoscopic, shimmering, unmistakably Madeon — those chopped-up vocal edits and glowing synth stacks he’s been perfecting since the Adventure days are all over it. It doesn’t try to modernize “iPod Touch” so much as fold it back into the sound that inspired it in the first place.
Is this the start of a Madeon remix era, or a one-off he only made because the story was too good to pass up? No idea. But if he’s only doing one remix every fourteen years, he picked the right one.
