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Tim Green rebuilds Trilucid's "One Day At A Time" around the drums
The remix earns its place in Colorize's series by rerouting the original instead of polishing it, pulling the lead out of the spotlight and letting the rhythm carry the record instead.
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Colorize built its remix series on one idea: hand a record to someone who'll actually change it, not just turn the reverb up. Tim Green's pass at Trilucid's "One Day At A Time" earns its spot in that format because it does the harder job. He pulls the lead out of the spotlight and lets the drums carry the record instead.
The original lives on To The End / One Day At A Time, the two-track EP Trilucid put out on Colorize in December 2021. It paired a collaboration with Esque on one side with this solo cut on the other, both previewed months earlier on the label's Colorscapes Volume Three compilation. That version runs 123bpm, filed as Progressive House, built to open up space around the vocal. Green's remix is one beat per minute quicker, sits in Gb minor, and files as Organic House on Beatport. Same title, same key centre, a different job.
We're putting the read here because it's the whole review. Green doesn't hesitate to put his own fingerprints and vocabulary on the track. The lead comes back out of the spotlight it held in the original, and what fills the space is a more rhythmic, more percussive arrangement — the kind of rebuild that trusts a groove to do the work a hook used to do. That's not the safe choice on a track this well-liked already. It's the reason to hire Green instead of running a straight extended edit and calling it done.
He's earned the trust to make that call. Colorize itself is Enhanced Music's progressive and deep house arm, founded in 2011 by Will Holland to run the label group's melodic side, and Green has been a fixture of that world for most of two decades. He broke through in 2008 with "Revox" and "Mr Dry" on Four:Twenty, took DJ Mag's Best Breakthrough Producer award in 2010, and cut a BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix the same year. His catalogue since has run through Anjunadeep, Get Physical, Cityfox and Dirtybird, with a standing home on Lee Burridge's All Day I Dream, where his Body Stars EP landed last year. He also hosts Colorize's own Colorcast, so this remix is a resident turning up on the label's flagship show rather than a guest brought in cold.
Trilucid know the room from the other side of it. Hilton Caswell and Andy MacDougall have run the project out of London since 2009, held a five-year residency for The Gallery at Ministry of Sound, and passed 50 million Spotify streams without leaving the deep-and-melodic lane, across Colorize, Anjunadeep, Global Underground, Proton and ZeroThree, plus their own label, Ionica Audio. Handing this one to Green wasn't a gamble on an outsider. It's two acts who've shared a roster for years, working the same track from opposite ends of it.
Where it plays is the actual difference. The original wants room to breathe around that vocal — a warm-up slot, or the stretch before a set turns a corner. Green's version wants the lead out of the way so the low end can do its job later, once the floor's already moving and nobody needs telling what the hook is. Same record. Two different points in the night.