Breathing New Life into Ingela’s Music – Through MINT and The Rhythm Shifter Project

Some projects are just tracks. Others become something more – something deeply personal. For me, Jennifer’s Song falls squarely into the latter. Now it has been remixed to honour MINT and Ingela.

Back in 2009, Ingela (back then, known as Karlsson) composed a minimalist piece during the winter holidays. It was internal, unpolished, and heartfelt. That song – sometimes referred to as Julafton 2009 – never made it to the spotlight, but it always stuck with me. And even now, more than a decade later, it still moves me. And it is still published, but not published enough.

Over the past one or two years, I’ve planned on giving that song, and a lot of other projects, a second life through The MINT Experiment. Under my alias Rhythm Shifter, I took the original, the MIDI data, and the emotional core Ingela embedded in that track, and began crafting a reimagined version. Not just as a remix, but as a tribute – to the sound she created, to her foundational role in MINT, and most recently, to the memory of her mother, who passed away in January 2025.

The remix project wasn’t born out of commercial ambition. It was born out of respect, history, and the desire to preserve and transform something meaningful. Ingela’s melodic instinct laid the groundwork for much of what became the DNA of MINT.

Originally, I wanted to name the track Ingela’s Song. But due to SoundCloud’s naming policies, I finally kept the original title, Jennifer’s Song. It didn’t need a new name to gain new meaning. The music speaks for itself.

Now, as this remix finds its way out into the world, I hope it carries with it everything it was meant to say – about legacy, collaboration, and music’s ability to transcend time.

You can listen to the original composition at soundcloud.com/ingela_karlsson/jennifers-song and the reimagined remix here: soundcloud.com/tornevall/jennifers-song-the-mint-experiment-rhythm-shifter-remix – the intentions is also to make an album to keep the both tracks in the same place, so a 320k-transformed copy also rides as soundcloud.com/tornevall/jennifers-song-original-edit.