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The original version of this record should, I hope, need no introduction. One reason I hope that is that I can't really be bothered to give it one, but suffice it to say that Brian Eno's oft-quoted prediction that it would change the sound of dance music for the following fifteen years seems to have been wrong only by underestimating how long it would last. So here we were 18 years later and electronic music had become so synonymous with dance that even entirely undanceable electronica like Aphex Twin was filed in the dance section of shops and written about on the dance pages of the NME.
With victory asssured, this new version of the song seems almost like a lap of honour: the remixes were apparently commissioned to promote another greatest hits collection, but they seem to have arrived at the right moment to give Summer her first Top 10 hit since 1989 (and her last to date), as well as inspiring a follow-up re-release of 'State Of Independence'. The version featured here is by Rollo and Sister Bliss of Faithless, who had themselves recently made their Top 40 debut with the original release of 'Salva Mea', though their Top 10 breakthrough was still over a year away. Perhaps if I listened to the full ten-minute version enough I might pick up some sort of vibe from it: but this edit is just boring. Admittedly, I've never really liked the original and I don't like Faithless much either, but this is substantially less interesting in this form than either of them.
Available on: Renaissance 3d (Faithless)
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