Remix: Hikaru Utada - Michi (Kyo bootleg)

Well, here's something I wasn't expecting to post almost a year after High Priestess Hikaru ordained Japan with her welcomed return to music, but am quite chuffed about. A couple of colourful music producers from the land of the rising sun have crafted unofficial bouncy-as-fuck remixes of songs from Hikaru Utada's 6th Japanese studio album Fantôme. Kyo and T5UMUT5UMU both bring forth remixes of "Michi" and "Tomodachi" respectively.

My feelings towards "Michi" are as conflicting as the song itself. I like it, but it should have been better. It's one of the weakest album openers to grace a Hikaru Utada album to date. It feels incomplete (it really needed a bridge section or a middle 8) and the production is too light and unpolished.

The original version of "Michi" just doesn't hit as hard as it should for a song so upbeat and dance focused. Online remixer and song re-fixer Kyo remedies that by turning "Michi" into a fully fledged club bop, with heavy hitting 808s, an increased tempo and chopping the fuck out of the chorus.

My pussy has already popped.

📻 Check out Kyo on SoundCloud

❌ "Tomodachi" remix link is dead ya'll. The remix has been removed [Updated on February 19, 2019]