IsGwan’s ‘Feel Free’ Returns as a Deluxe Edition That Actually Moves Somewhere New

When an artist tacks a few remixes onto a recent EP, it rarely says much. IsGwan’s ‘Feel Free (Deluxe Edition)’ isn’t that. Released quietly, the project reopens the original four-tracker with a clear intent to push further out, pulling together producers who treat the source material less as a template and more as raw material.

Harvey Sutherland, Osmosis Jones, SKYHIGH, Rich Ellis and Vynes all turn in versions that shift between UK garage, electronica, jazz house and the kind of leftfield club music that never quite settles. It’s a tighter, stranger listen than the initial EP, which already earned IsGwan comparisons to Overmono, Caribou and Ross From Friends. His remix of What’s A Girl To Do became one of those tracks that spread through DJ sets and file-sharing circles without any real push, a genuine word-of-mouth dub.

The deluxe edition keeps that momentum but refuses to capitalise on it in obvious ways. There’s no easily digestible single, no safe bet. What comes through instead is a producer who’s more interested in texture and atmosphere than in repeating a formula. The pristine production that marked his early work is still there, just put to use in less predictable shapes. For anyone tracking UK club music’s more interesting corners, this feels chosen, not forced.