Surrender (Remixes): one of the best remix albums never pressed
Thirteen tracks, thirteen of the best producers working in house and melodic techno right now, one certified classic of a source album — and if you want to own it, the answer is: you can't. Not on wax. It has never been pressed.
The tracklist as a murderer's row
RÜFÜS DU SOL handed Surrender (2021) over almost track-for-track: Dom Dolla remixing "Make It Happen," Solomun taking "Alive," Anyma also on "Alive" in a second pass, Adriatique on "On My Knees," Innellea on "I Don't Wanna Leave," Vintage Culture opening the whole thing with "Next To Me." This isn't a comp padded out with journeyman remixers to hit a tracklist quota — every name on it currently headlines the same festival stages RÜFÜS DU SOL themselves play.
A Various, done right
In remix-album terms this is a pure Various — one album, one remixer per track, no filler edits. What sets it apart from most Various-type remix albums is consistency: there isn't a weak entry across all thirteen. Compare that to how many Various-type comps have two or three genuinely great cuts propping up a back half of forgettable radio edits.
The Solace precedent
This isn't RÜFÜS DU SOL's first remix album — 2019's Solace Remixed got the full-fat treatment: eighteen tracks, a proper 2×LP limited-edition pressing on Rose Avenue/Reprise, and it sits at 4.63/5 across 71 Discogs ratings with 818 people who own it. Surrender (Remixes) is arguably the better record — tighter tracklist, bigger remixer names, the band at the commercial peak of their career instead of still building toward it — and it has 16 confirmed owners on Discogs, all of them digital.
Why it never got pressed
No confirmed reason on record, but the pattern fits a broader shift: remix comps increasingly built as DSP/promo tools rather than physical collector items. Surrender (Remixes) dropped as a same-year streaming release, not a Record Store Day event or a numbered box — the release calendar of something built for playlist placement, not crate-digging. It's the same fate that caught Nine Inch Nails' Further Down the Spiral and Klaxons' 2014 remix EP: great remix work, zero interest in becoming a physical object.
What would change this
A Record Store Day reissue, a career-retrospective box set once RÜFÜS DU SOL's touring cycle slows down, or Rose Avenue simply deciding there's a market — any of those would flip this from "the one that got away" to mega rare on arrival, sight unseen. Until then it stays exactly what the title says: one of the best remix albums ever made, and one you can only ever own as a file.
Sourced from the Discogs master listings for Solace Remixed (m1618865) and Surrender (Remixes) (m3496137), checked August 2026.