new order - true faith (morning sun extended remix)

i was on a huge italo kick a few years ago and i was digging into stuff that i knew my older sisters liked and things i heard when i was a little kid. i had remembered this song from mtv actually where the video was fascinating but i always mixed it up with fine young cannibal's "she drives me crazy".

the original song is amazing and is one my favourite new order songs but i guess it's kind of predictable as well since "true faith" was a big hit and i think most people have heard it about a million times. this version that was remixed by shep pettibone and what he did was he usually did at the time, he kept the integral part of the song and added a little more melody, groove and sorted it for the dj.

pettibone's version is quite italo and it's a whole load of energy, not saying that the original was not but it was focused a little more on bernard. pettibone sets up the original song a little more and much like 80's style remixing it lets the first three quarters of the song run almost in ordinary fashion. except it does included more production from pettibone.

the usual routine for that kind of remixing is right after the second chorus is to go into an extended instrumental bridge where it gets musical but simmers down to a groove. in a very release and tension style but the groove section was employed as mixouts, especially if it was a longer bridge.

pettibone actually employs this routine but keeps the bridge like the original where it was a guitar solo but loops one section of it. the mixout is actually employed at the end of the record and i think it's because the record was done in the late 80's and at that time dj's & producers started to employ the new form of track structure.

the records made by dj's had a groove in the beginning that builds up to the song and then, when the song is over it strips down to the groove again. this form would later be perverted as dj's making the music weren't that musical and kept it rawer and rawer because they didn't know how to play instruments.

the reason i love this version is that it keeps true to the original and uses all it's good parts and highlights it more. the keyword is more, more drama, more melody, more groove. it's a version i'll support for a long time.

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