STBAN closed off 2025 with a surprise dance floor reworking of Rosalía single ‘Dios Es Un Stalker’, taken from the Spanish superstar’s critically acclaimed long player ‘LUX’. As 2026 gets fully underway the FLAMENCA Records boss returns with his second take on her work, this time taking her ‘Reliquia’ track to task.
The original single is a dreamy, delicate, deft composition, Rosalía’s vocal floating like air across an equally light instrumentation, dipping and diving between shuddering pizzicato and smoother, more sweeping sections. STBAN takes the ethereal essence of the artist’s top line but immerses it inside a much darker, dance floor friendly groove. Warm pianos replace the sweeping strings, soft snares deliver a sense of staccato. Undulating rhythm and synth segments slowly build to give the entire edit a sense of club-orientated dynamism, Rosalía’s vocal lacing everything effortlessly together.
“I simply can’t stop listening to ‘LUX’,” STBAN admitted from his studios in Lausanne, Switzerland. “Everything Rosalía does on the album excites me musically. I want to take her music onto the dance floor, to share it with my audience during my sets, to see and feel their reaction when they hear her vocal, when they recognise her work. ‘Reliquia’ is such a light track, it has such a delicate touch to the production and it was incredibly important to keep that while still giving the edit the kind of dark edge it needs to sustain energy when you’re in the middle of a club set.”
Rosalía ‘Reliquia’ (STBAN Remix) is available for free download exclusively on SoundCloud.
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