i know that talking about "rapture" is redundant since markus moser and made records seems to issue out new remasters and repackagings of older stuff every week or so. reason for that is that markus moser haven't made a hit record on his own back.
also ever since nadia ali figured out that moser was holding her back and her vocals and the productions from other producers she did a wise move of breaking out and becoming an own star. shame that nadia ali seems to also try to live of her old hits since "rapture" have been resung and re-released under her own name.
anyhow this record when it came out was everywhere and ministry of sound's promotional team didn't spare any expenses of ramming the track down peoples and djs throats. i think it has quite over ten different remixes in it's initial run and it didn't stop there.
i heard the original first but then it was armin van buuren's remix and later riva's and creamer & k's versions. the latter is the one that stuck with me to date with it's heavy groove, effected vocals and that bassline that correlates well with the repeated staccato riff.
john creamer & stephane k were excellent at this kind of prog and they knocked out a couple of tracks and remixes around this time that had heavy chugging grooves and deep basslines. this version however had flaws that bugs me even to this day; the breakdown and how it goes out from the break.
i think it takes the tempo down just a few notches more than it should and this is where i found paul van dyk's reworking, for his "the politics of dancing" mixcd, a nice solution since it kicked it in again more effectively and added a nice acidline to the mix.
rumour has it that van dyk did the rework since m.o.s. pushed him to include "rapture" and since none of the other versions wouldn't work he took it into the machine and beefed up the creamer & k remix.
buy all of the versions here (junodownload)
but ignore all of the first ones since they are really crap.
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