in late mars '09 i was listening to national radio and the show "p3 populär" and the actress vanna rosenberg was being interviewed. halfway into the interview someone sends an email to the show pointing out that rosenberg once was part of a eurodanceproject called adastra back in '94-'95. she instantly started reminisce about it slightly in a way that you understood she wasn't completely comfortable about that part of her life. i didn't connect the song or the project or remembered hearing it even though i was quite into eurodance at this time.
later on in the show they played the song at hand and everything fell into place really and i remembered "iaonnama" since my friend had the single or album and we used listen to it a lot. adastra was shortlived and was one album and three singles and consisted by producers bengt girell jr. and kim henry bergström and singers åsa schmallenbach and rosenberg. future projects involving the other three has been minor production work for girell jr. & bergström and schmallenbach released an album in '98. rosenberg herself has had a successful career in acting in films, television, on stage but also have sung backup to lisa ekdahl, lars winnerbäck & magnus uggla.
right around my rediscovery of this song i was quite into eurodance, or fact is that i'm still quite into eurodance but i was entranced with this song. i found the cdsingle for the song and the remixsingle that came out the following year and this is the interesting part as the latter has the best version of the song according to me. this juiced up remix comes courtesy of libido or håkan lidbo as he used this moniker for whenever he did eurodancey productions or remixes. it should be noted that even though he has left most of this in history, he did do a refix of leila k's electric in 2012 with jessica folcker reprising her vocals and cleo redoing leila's rap.
never the less the original is a nice affair but what lidbo does is to take it out the housier base at 128bpm and kicked the tempo right up to 140. he also injected new synths that set the pace well and redid a slight structure of the song that included a small drop. the most noted thing is the inclusion of a rap by someone calling themselves matrix and for the life of me i cannot find who this geezer is. the result is this captain hollywood project kind of thing with a darkvoiced rapper taking the most space and then some sung vocals. i love tracks like "flying high" and "only with you" and this follows suit really well.
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