Tucson electro-pop artist Sharkk Heartt to release new Tilla da Hun remix of “One Step” on September 12

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On September 12, Sharkk Heartt will release a new remix of “One Step” (originally released on the 2021 album Wars Our Mothers Fought), produced by Tilla da Hun. Sharkk Heartt is the electronic alt-pop project name of songwriter Lara Ruggles, whose folk-Americana follow-up Anchor Me was released late last year under her own name. 

 

“One Step” is the atmospheric opening track on Wars Our Mothers Fought, a ballad with an electronic piano foundation and a spacy, minimalist production approach featuring slowly-building layers of vocals. The lyrics evoke the frozen feeling of moving through water and finding one’s footing after a difficult loss or a breakup, and the refrain provides an assurance that there is a path forward, one step and one breath at a time. The new remix brings this song into house music territory, using a danceable, uptempo beat with a slightly industrial feel, a gritty bass line and a few extra ethereal vocal echoes that place it in a fresh, unfamiliar landscape. 

 

Ruggles worked with producer Tilla da Hun (Lawrence Wilson) to create the remix. Wilson met Ruggles at a monthly event called Light the Mic in Tucson, Arizona - a curated open mic by and for marginalized creators. He introduced himself after seeing Ruggles perform and expressed a desire to collaborate. 

 

Ruggles says, “I knew he had worked with my friend Marz (LaFlo) on some really great music, so there was trust there from the beginning, and he just had such a genuine, open energy - I felt like he meant what he was saying and he was the kind of person who would follow through.” 

 

Sure enough, when Ruggles reached out later that week, Wilson responded with quick   enthusiasm and within just ten more days they had begun work on a remix of “One Step” together. 

 

“Tilla was such a pleasure to work with,” Ruggles says. “He really cared about whether the final song was resonating with me, and we got together to tweak little things here and there and hone in on some of the melody lines and texture in the bass part in particular. I’m thrilled about how it came out - it’s really different than anything I’ve released before!”