"All You Need" is a song by French recording artist Miss Kittin

Miss Kittin

Miss Kittin is an electronic music DJ, vocalist, and songwriter. Since rising to prominence in 1998 for her singles "1982" and "Frank Sinatra" with The Hacker, she has worked with other musicians such as Chicks on Speed, Felix da Housecat and Golden Boy...

. Remixed by Lee Van Dowski

Lee Van Dowski

Lee Van Dowski is a pseudonym for Renaud Lewandowski, a French electronic music artist who moved to Geneva in 2000. He is a certified sound engineer, specialising in audio design.-Career:...

 and Gesaffelstein, it was released worldwide on 10 January 2011 as the lead single

Lead single

A lead single is usually the first single released by a musician or a band before the release of its home album.During the era of the grammophone record, all music arrived in the marketplace as what is now termed a single, one potential hit song backed by an additional song of generally less...

 from her upcoming album.

Composition

"All You Need" is credited as a tech house

Tech house

Tech house is a subgenre of house music that mixes elements of minimal techno into simple, 4-to-4 beats found in soulful deep house. The genre came to prominence in the late-1990s atmosphere of American clubs as soul influenced Detroit-style techno that also borrowed elements from house before...

 song with synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 and electroclash

Electroclash

Electroclash is a style of music that fuses New Wave and electronic dance music. It emerged in New York and Detroit in the later 1990s, pioneered by acts including I-F and those associated with Gerald Donald, and is associated with acts including Peaches, Adult, and Fischerspooner...

 influences, and is influenced by the analogue synth vocals of Gary Numan

Gary Numan

Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician, most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars". His signature sound consisted of heavy synthesizer hooks fed through guitar effects pedals.Numan is considered a pioneer of commercial electronic music...

, and Pantha du Prince

Pantha du Prince

Hendrik Weber, better known as Pantha du Prince, Panthel and Glühen 4 is a German electronic music producer and DJ affiliated with Hamburg's Dial music label and British label Rough Trade.-Career:...

.

Critical reception

DJ Magazine commented, "Old school to the core, this throbs and pulses with a deep electro bassline, Herve's angelic vocal in stark contrast to the darkness underpinning it. Lee Van Dowski

Lee Van Dowski

Lee Van Dowski is a pseudonym for Renaud Lewandowski, a French electronic music artist who moved to Geneva in 2000. He is a certified sound engineer, specialising in audio design.-Career:...

 takes things darker still for the 8am crowd, while Gesaffelstein from Paris forgets his manners by surpassing the original with six-and-a-half minutes of perfection. How rude." Jeff Timoney from Ibiza-Voice noted, "In many ways, it hits the spot perfectly - weird enough to be interesting....pop enough to be a guilty pleasure." Sascha Kösch from German magazine Debug

Debug (magazine)

De:Bug is a monthly magazine based in Berlin, covering "electronic aspects of life." Following this new definition of culture, the magazine keeps track of electronic music styles such as techno, electro or house, as well as all intersections of daily life with digital technology, it describes the...

described the song as "simple beats, simple bass line, a little over enthusiastic, yet the track comes back to an unexpected house sound, which gives the piece a distinctive classical sound." Johnny Loftus from The Village Voice

The Village Voice

The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...

opined, "the French DJ still has charisma like a carpenter has nails, and might even find another gear in this Gaga

Lady GaGa

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

-fied era of fembot

Gynoid

A gynoid is anything which resembles or pertains to the female human form. It is also used in American English medical terminology as a shortening of the term Gynecoid ....

 dancefloor operators who seduce with attitude and electro break amplification. In short, Kittin never got declawed."

Cultural impact

In 2011, the song was featured on the compilation album Switch 17 by PIAS

PIAS Recordings

[PIAS] Recordings is the recorded music division of the [PIAS] Entertainment Group, a European independent artist and label services company.The record labels that operate under the [PIAS] Recordings umbrella are: Play It Again Sam, Wall of Sound and Different Recordings.Aside from the three London...

, which charted at number three on the Belgian Compilation Albums Chart

Ultratop

Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts...

 (Flanders).

Track listing

• Digital download

1. "All You Need" (Original) - 7:37
2. "All You Need" (Lee Van Dowski
   Lee Van Dowski
   Lee Van Dowski is a pseudonym for Renaud Lewandowski, a French electronic music artist who moved to Geneva in 2000. He is a certified sound engineer, specialising in audio design.-Career:...
   
    Remix) - 7:45
3. "All You Need" (Gesaffelstein Remix) - 6:28

• German Vinyl, 12-inch single

1. "All You Need" (Original) - 7:37
2. "All You Need" (Lee Van Dowski
   Lee Van Dowski
   Lee Van Dowski is a pseudonym for Renaud Lewandowski, a French electronic music artist who moved to Geneva in 2000. He is a certified sound engineer, specialising in audio design.-Career:...
   
    Remix) - 7:45

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label
Germany	January 10, 2011	Vinyl, 12-inch single	Mobilee
United States		Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
	February 1, 2011	EP Extended play An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...