Honey Dijon & Ron Trent Remake Rochelle Jordan's Through The Wall

August has delivered one of its more compelling house moments in Rochelle Jordan's Disc 1 — the opening chapter of a five-part remix series reimagining her acclaimed 2025 album Through The Wall. Released August 14 via Empire, the EP brings in Honey Dijon, Ron Trent, KLSH and Halogenix to rebuild four of Jordan's tracks around dancefloor logic, without stripping out the emotional weight that made the originals worth remixing in the first place. As house remix collections go, this is a serious one.

A Series With a Long Runway

The five-disc project will release one new disc per month through December 2026, dropping individual remixes every two weeks in between. That structure matters. Rather than front-loading all the material at once, Jordan is turning Through The Wall into a body of work that circulates across club nights, after-hours, and radio playlists over a sustained period. Disc 1's lineup makes clear this isn't a contractual remix package — it's a curated set of commissions from producers whose specific voices the project needed.

The four names on this disc cover significant ground. Honey Dijon is one of the most recognisable figures in contemporary house music, equally at home across Chicago soul, New York disco, and club-forward electronic production. Ron Trent is a Chicago house institution whose career stretches back to Prescription Records in the early 1990s and has never stopped producing music worth paying attention to. KLSH is Jordan's long-time creative collaborator. Halogenix comes from a different corner of the club entirely — drum and bass, techno, experimental music — which gives the final track on the disc a different character from the other three.

Honey Dijon's Acid-Tinged 'Ladida' Rework

The track drawing the most attention is Honey Dijon's rebuild of 'Ladida', a house-leaning highlight from the original album that she's rewired with a distinct acid-house undercurrent. The approach is right: she keeps Jordan's vocal — which has real presence and emotional intention — and works around it with a low-slung groove, a bassline that pushes against the kick rather than sitting below it, and production restraint that gives the vocal room to move. The acid stabs arrive late and land correctly: functional, not decorative, felt before they're consciously noticed.

Dijon described her intent clearly: "Rochelle has one of those voices that carries so much emotion and intention, so I wanted to build a remix that honoured that while giving it a new life on the dancefloor. For me, it's always about creating a moment of connection — something that feels soulful, powerful and liberating. 'Ladida' already had that spirit, I just wanted to amplify it through my own musical language." That philosophy is audible throughout the rework. It earns its length and doesn't overstay it.

Ron Trent Takes 'I'm Your Muse' Somewhere Deeper

Where Dijon goes for forward motion, Trent goes deep. His eight-minute reimagining of 'I'm Your Muse' is the kind of track that functions as a set within a set — slow-building, harmonically layered, designed for a stretch of a night when the crowd has settled and the DJ can afford to hold somewhere for a while. Trent's production language is unmistakable: the warm chord voicings, the unhurried swing in the percussion, the sense that every element has been given exactly as much space as it needs. This is deep house from someone who helped define the form applied to contemporary source material, and neither side of that equation is condescending to the other.

For DJs working the late stretch of a set, the Trent remix is the pull from this disc. Eight minutes is a statement of patience in a genre that increasingly defaults to efficiency over depth, and it pays off — the track holds a dancefloor by sustaining groove rather than manufacturing peaks.

KLSH, Halogenix, and the Full Arc of the Disc

KLSH's flip of 'Get It Off' keeps the production closest to the emotional territory of the original, pushing the low-end and closing the gap between Jordan's R&B sensibility and the dancefloor without forcing the track to become something it isn't. Halogenix's contribution brings the disc to a close from a different angle entirely — introducing texture and atmosphere from his background in more experimental club music. It is the most left-field moment on the EP, and it gives Disc 1 a final dimension that would otherwise be missing. A remix project that sounds like four versions of the same thing has done something wrong. This one doesn't.

Why the Rest of the Series Is Worth Watching

Jordan has opened this series with a high benchmark. The producers on Disc 1 were not assembled casually, and the consistency of the curation suggests the same care will apply to Discs 2 through 5. Each new disc will introduce a new set of voices into Through The Wall's orbit, moving the album through different club contexts and listener communities across the rest of 2026. It is a genuinely interesting way to extend the life of an album in a streaming era where records vanish fast. Stream Disc 1 on Spotify. The next instalment arrives in September.