i mentioned in the entry about the shep pettibone remix of new order that i was on a huge italo kick a while back. i got hung up on a lot of songs including this and after doing a lot of digging i found out that a whole truck load where churned out by a selected few. the most prolific person being the producer behind this track, being michiel van der kuy.
this producer was a master of working those synths and really knew how to write hits after another. this track wasn't a big prolific hit but could have been, it has a hook screaming "why wasn't this as big as the laserdance or koto tunes".
the track is very van der kuy from the groove and the way he works the drum-machines to that buzzing synthesizer play. compelete with different arpeggios in the verses/bridges and hook sections and string fills. it's glorious. the only downside with the original dance version (called so on the record) was the vocalist, i just didn't like her vocal timbre and it came of as too dramatic.
i think her tone and the way she accentuated her vocals in a diva-esque way just became epic overload. it doesn't work when having layers of synths and sounds that's loud and full and then slap on a big vocal. usually for something like this you'd wish for an instrumental, however no such version was made by van der kuy.
what he did instead was to have this version with the vocal sung with a vocoder. the result is glorious, awesome and fifty other adjectives like that because robots fit with this kind of synthy italo. i was obsessed with this tune after hearing it the first time and never forgot when i saw the record in a store clearance sale in stockholm. i had to have it. it's such an great track.
listen here (youtube)
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