Parallel Preservation – Uniting (Original Mix) / Remix by DJ Natural Nate® VS Jiggabot
Some tracks are simply releases. Others carry decades of history inside them. Parallel Preservation’s Uniting and the remix by DJ Natural Nate® VS Jiggabot represent one of the most meaningful full-circle moments of Nate’s musical journey.
Long before the releases, productions, accomplishments and Beatport charts, George Ron, GRON of Parallel Preservation, played an important role in Nate’s beginning as a DJ. When Nate was first learning the craft, George helped teach him how to count beats and understand the structure of music. At the same time, George also explained some of the basic foundations of producing music. Neither of them could possibly have known how important those early lessons would eventually become.
Nate carried that knowledge forward. He continued learning, practicing and developing behind the decks. Years became decades, and the beginner who once needed help understanding beat structure became DJ Natural Nate®. Production eventually became another major part of his musical life, and alongside Jiggabot, Nate began creating and releasing music that would eventually reach the Beatport Top 100.
Then, decades after those first lessons, George asked Nate to remix his music.
For Nate, this wasn't simply another remix opportunity. The person who had once helped teach him how to count beats was now handing Nate his own record and trusting him to reinterpret it. The person who had explained some of the earliest foundations of production to Nate was now asking the producer Nate had become to work on his creation.
That was full circle.
While Nate and Jiggabot were creating their remix of Uniting, there were moments when both had tears in their eyes. They understood the history behind what they were doing. This wasn't just another project sitting in front of them. Every sound carried memories, respect and gratitude. They wanted the remix to demonstrate how much they loved George, how deeply they respected his work and how much the knowledge he passed to Nate all those years earlier had meant.
There is something incredibly powerful about being able to thank a mentor through the very art that mentor helped you understand. This remix became that thank you.
Then something happened that made the story even more special. Parallel Preservation’s original Uniting reached the Beatport Top 100, and the DJ Natural Nate® VS Jiggabot remix also reached the Beatport Top 100.
For Nate, this meant far more than another chart position. Decades earlier, George was helping him learn how to count beats and understand production. Now George’s original and the remix created by Nate and Jiggabot had both reached the Beatport Top 100. The mentor and the student had arrived at the same milestone through two versions of the same music.
Even the title Uniting feels perfect. This record united the beginning with the present. It united mentor and student as artists. It connected Nate’s earliest lessons with decades of DJing and production, and ultimately connected George’s original vision with Nate and Jiggabot’s interpretation inside the Beatport Top 100.
George gave Nate knowledge. Nate carried it for decades, built upon it and eventually became accomplished enough that George trusted him and Jiggabot with his own music. Nate and Jigga poured that history, love and gratitude back into the remix, and both versions ultimately reached the Beatport Top 100.
Parallel Preservation’s Uniting will always be more than a track to us. It represents mentorship, friendship, gratitude, hard work and decades of musical history coming together in one incredible moment.
This is more than a remix. This is the student getting the opportunity to honor the mentor through the art he helped teach him.
This is what full circle sounds like. ❤️
