 Although Scott @-@ Heron received top @-@ billing for the release , Jamie xx worked solely on the remix project . For We 're New Here , he remixed 13 of the original album 's 15 songs , including its " interlude " cuts , mixing Scott @-@ Heron 's vocal tracks from the original recording sessions over his own beats and instrumentals , rather than the original music . Many of the remixes were created by Jamie xx on his laptop , while on tour with The xx . In a March 2010 interview , he said that the label " gave me the parts and let me do whatever I want , so I 've been doing it on my laptop on tour . [ I 'm ] only using [ Gil 's ] vocals , I 'm not using any of the original music from it , which is very freeing " . On his intentions for the album 's music , he explained in an interview for The Irish Times , " I wanted it to sound like everything I had been listening to in London . I wanted it to sound like something you ’ d hear on pirate radio . You hear so many different genres , and it ’ s all so convoluted and mixed @-@ up , but it makes sense when you turn on the station " . 
