Remixes (2011 – 2019)

The Beginning

As the digital world opened up, Chris started reshaping songs the same way he shaped his originals by chasing emotion, tension, and atmosphere. Remixing became a different kind of storytelling. A chance to break a track apart, rebuild it from the inside, and discover something new in the process.

These years were filled with late nights, glowing synths, and a growing connection to artists far beyond Windsor. The work he created here would become the early DNA of what later defined Nordmach.

**Evolution of the Kill - (with Lear Mason)**

Chris’s first major remix work came through Lear Mason, a close friend and creative force he worked with during his 13 years at Long & McQuade. After moving to Phoenix, Arizona, Lear reached out. His band Evolution of the Kill was working on dark, cinematic material, and he asked Chris to remix their song “Beautiful in Red.” Chris didn’t hesitate. He always admired Lear’s vision. The remix stripped the song down to its emotional bones and rebuilt it with haunting pads, pulsing rhythm, and wide atmospheric reverb. It was the earliest sign of Chris’s ability to turn shadows into motion. 

**International Collaboration - Pinklogik (UK)**

After Evolution of the Kill, Chris was invited to remix Pinklogik, an electronic artist from the UK whose melodic synth world fit perfectly with his own. The track “Playing With Sticks” became a seamless blend of her crystalline electronics and his evolving emotional production style. It opened the door to global collaboration and showed Chris that distance meant nothing when the sound was right.

Other Remix Highlights

Selected Works

• Evolution of the Kill — Beautiful in Red (Nordmach Remix)
• Pinklogik — Playing With Sticks (Nordmach Remix)
• Drop Dead Famous — Find Myself (Empty Inside – Nordmach Remix)
• Drop Dead Famous — Lost Your Way (Nordmach Remix)

These remixes sharpened his instincts for space, balance, and atmosphere. All key elements that would later shape Nordmach’s cinematic chill-house sound.

The Process

Most remixes took shape late at night headphones on, studio dimly lit, layers slowly unfolding. This is where Chris refined his workflow getting deeper and deeper into soft-synths. Dialing in frequencies. Controlling dynamics. Turning other artists’ ideas into fresh emotional landscapes. 

Remixing became both technical discipline and creative release.

Legacy Connection

The remix years were Chris’s testing ground. A place where precision met intuition. Where he learned how to build emotion from someone else’s blueprint.

Those lessons still live inside Nordmach today in every pad, every filter sweep, every moment of lift or tension. These remixes were more than experiments. They were the foundation of a sound that became unmistakably his.