Released in 2000, Alan Braxe and Fred Falke’s Intro is five minutes of faultlessly melancholy, perfectly elegant, dance music that nudged French House into the future.
Intro is now being re-released for its 25th birthday, using the remastered version of the song from the 2023 re-issue of Alan Braxe, Fred Falke & Friends –The Upper Cutsalbum, with Braxe and Falke also making new remixes of their golden child. Given that Intro was pretty much perfect the first time around, the results are astoundingly strong.

Falkes remix takes Intro into new dimensions, cosmic and suspiciously dubby, a newly-recorded bass line sending the mix on its psychedelic way. Braxes remix is raw and dirty, a hotel room edit as he calls it, that nods to the history of French House as it sparkles up the spine.Both tunes are evidence that- actually – youcan remix the un-remixable, so long as it