first time i heard this track was in a set and i think it was oakenfold who played it but i forgot about it until a year ago when a friend of mine was talking about it. the story of jan johnston her impact on epic trance music is something you go and on about as she along with kate cameron and kirsty hawkshaw set a precident on how vocal trance would sound. never the less, her association with paul oakenfold and his perfecto label gave her a plateau as a requested vocalist but it wasn't the safest one.
the album that "as the cracks appear" comes, which was called "emerging" from was completed but never released. some of the remixes of the songs only appeared in elusive promo releases and on certain mixed cd's and whatnot. eventually johnston left perfecto for a small stint on vandit, but i believe she is associated with armada nowadays.
gerret frerichs aka humate & highlands remixes of the song appeared on an ep called "a perfecto summer" along with tall tin box's "god's love" and konkrete's "law unto myself". highland's remix is proper nice but it has nothing on humate's remix and reason being that for humate's bassline. with a groove consisting of a sturdy four on the floor and shuffled percussion, gerrit frerichs loads this wobble in the bottom end and it ground the track immensly.
for being this heavy groove it is kind of minimalistic and much inline with the kind of techno that humate was making at the time as well. the melodiic elements are sparse but loaded with reverbs and it works for the atmosphere that is built up. warm reverbed stabs that anyone else would call detroit-esque, since it remotely sounds like the juno 106 patches that kevin saunderson used for all those inner city tracks. even the vocal breakdown serves it purpose especially as this track is brilliant for transitioning in a progressive house set. love it.
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