About Yotto:
Yotto is a producer, label manager, surreal zookeeper, topflight remixer and respectable party starter from Helsinki, Finland. In a six-year career, his tracks have garnered well over 100,000,000 streams on Spotify alone. He’s remixed the likes of Coldplay, Diplo, Gorillaz and Rufus du Sol, and he s received support from a wide variety of tastemakers including six Essential New Tunes from Pete Tong and three Hottest Records from Annie Mac. Yotto s latest project, his own label Odd One Out, has quickly ingrained itself in the dance music world as a unique home for both established and new artists alike through its tight, dedicated attention to A&R, artwork and design.
It s natural to assume that when someone remixes an original track, there s constant communication between producer and artist, making sure everything sounds both wholly different yet structurally sound. While that is true to a large extent, Underwater is a notable exception. I don t think it was planned to be a remix, Englund tells
New Times over Zoom from Los Angeles. I had a Zoom session with Dombresky, and I think while we were catching up, he said, Yeah, I was working on your track. I was like, What do you mean you worked on it? And he said, Well, Ultra sent me the stems. I asked him to play it because I had no idea.
Anabel Englund
On a Wednesday afternoon in early December, Anabel Englund materializes via Zoom. While this interview was scheduled to happen over the phone, she thought it would be nicer to see each other, and it is. Englund blonde and striking with a warmth you can feel even over the internet sits on a rattan chair suspended from the ceiling and decorated with white Christmas lights, the afternoon L.A. sunlight streaming in through the window behind her. Some days I’m waking up and watching
Law & Order: SVU, she says. And some days I’m waking up and doing these interviews and jumping on a Zoom session. My life has gotten so crazy with all the music.