In 2025, Haute Couture Music opens its year with a deep, atmospheric punch: the release of “Beautiful (40D Remix)”, a revitalized version of YASS’s beloved record featuring the unmistakable voice of Robert Owens. It’s a collaboration that feels both intentional and timely, melding legacy, innovation, and underground identity into a remix built for dancefloors that crave emotion as much as energy.
“Beautiful” has always been a timeless Afro House staple, anchored by Owens’s tender yet resolute vocal presence. What changes here is the lens. French DJ-producer YASS, known for his elegant, soulful, and often spiritually tinted productions, hands the record to rising Lisbon powerhouse 40D, who shapes the track into something far more expansive, an Afro Tech-driven, synth-forward, main-stage weapon.
40D’s arrival on Haute Couture Music is noteworthy in itself. A producer whose sound has lit up Tomorrowland, Glastonbury, Hï Ibiza, Ushuaïa, Exit Festival, Untold Festival, and more, he brings with him a production identity carved from African percussion, cinematic tension, and electronic grit. His remix doesn’t simply polish the original; it regenerates it.
The 40D treatment takes YASS’s emotive foundation and coats it in a pulsing electronic backbone, letting metallic synth stabs, rolling percussion, and airy pads swell around Owens’s iconic delivery. The vocals are stretched, deepened, and re-textured, giving the track a new emotional dimension while still protecting the heart of the original. The arrangement is thoughtful: long tension builds, murmuring breakdowns, explosive drops. Every section feels calibrated for festival peaks, late-night warehouse sets, and open-air Afro House gatherings.
What makes this remix stand out is its duality. It’s heavy, undeniably built for the club, but it retains beauty, grace, and a sense of spiritual uplift. It’s the kind of track that respects its lineage while refusing to stay still.
For YASS, this release signals another strong addition to his Haute Couture Music legacy. For 40D, it’s a milestone marking his growing influence as one of the most important Afro Tech artists emerging from Lisbon’s thriving scene. And with Robert Owens continuing to anchor modern house music with timeless authenticity, “Beautiful (40D Remix)” becomes more than an update; it becomes an evolution.