Skrillex and Ring Noord Rework Danny L Harle's 'Starlight'

Skrillex has joined Dutch duo Ring Noord on a remix of Danny L Harle's 'Starlight', the PinkPantheress-assisted single that first appeared on Harle's debut album Cerulean this year.

The track has a short but busy history. It began as a standalone single and marked Harle's debut on XL Recordings. It then landed on Cerulean, and has now, in the source's phrase, been 'offered up to the remix gods'. The new version leans heavy on the low end. You can hear the full remix below.

What is the Cerulean Divergence series?

The remix belongs to Harle's Cerulean Divergence project, an ongoing series that reworks music from his debut album — sometimes, according to the announcement, 'to radical degrees'. That phrase covers a lot of ground, and the artists invited so far suggest Harle is not chasing uniformity.

Sasha contributed the previous entry, a take on 'Raft in the Sea'. The list of remixers now spans a trance veteran and, with Skrillex and Ring Noord, two acts rooted in very different corners of dance music. What the series will not do — release an album's worth of reimagined tracks as a collected work, or keep the singles on a set schedule — remains unstated.

Where does this leave Skrillex?

The remix arrives while Skrillex stays active on the live circuit, where, as the announcement puts it, he is 'simply doing his best'. His most recent album, Soma, came out in June.

For Ring Noord, the collaboration places the Dutch duo alongside one of the most recognizable names in electronic music. The pairing is the kind of visibility a smaller act rarely gets handed, though whether it converts into a follow-up release is another matter. Nothing in the announcement commits to one.

What does this change for listeners?

Not much structurally, but the signal is clear. Harle is treating Cerulean as an open text — a record that keeps generating new versions rather than sitting finished. PinkPantheress's guest vocal on 'Starlight' now exists in at least two formal settings: the album cut and this bottom-heavy remix.

The practical takeaway for fans is simple. If you liked Cerulean, the Cerulean Divergence series is where its afterlife is happening, one remix at a time, from named collaborators with distinct styles. More entries seem likely, given the pace so far — Sasha's 'Raft in the Sea' rework and this 'Starlight' remix have arrived in steady succession — but no dates or future names have been announced.