amongst the many reasons i still look for eurodance singles in bargain bins and second hand stores is remixes of the songs. most of the cases i am looking for that "underground" remix which basically means the version that sounds nothing like the original at hand. i've stated this fact a few times but sometimes i do love the song at hand but if i don't think much of it, the producer behind the remix has to be a favourite of mine.
for the case of this song i liked the project at hand which was ari lehtonen on production and therese grankvist on vocals and lyrics. the name itself is a swedish translation of the sound known as "dream house" which the first singles sort of used. i liked early singles like "du & jag", "i mina drömmar" and "ge upp", whose single houses the remix for "vill ha dig". however i did not like that song and i've never thought much of actual original, which is a cover of a 80's hit by swedish act free style. but when nello re-envisions this song, it's with a modus operandi that he used on quite a few of the remixes that was done that year.
nello tijardovic, who passed away in 2001, was starting to become a prolific producer in the swedish scene and worked closely with pierre jerksten amongst others. both of them used the trick of say the german trance scene (in particular derichs & romboy's alphabet city label) to stay afloat, it is also something that also can hurt you in terms of credibility. basically producing some really commercial records that schlock radio would love and then on ths same release do the versions that they actually would play out in the club.
how the remixes from nello's side goes in a manner of to have the song start and end with the chorus like bookends. at the start it plays once or twice to establish what the song is and in the end it's a minute or two with the hook repeating. the sound also changes a bit to whatever the song at hand originally sounds like. what is interesting though is the middle part and for most cases, with this remix included, there is a furious acidy workout on the commercial end.
words cannot describe how much i love this part and it also has to do that it also employs a chordprogression and hook that was also used in tina cousins' "killin' time". it's more blatant in the other two remixes of "vill ha dig" and especially ari lehtonen's own remix that he did as la cream (another eurodance project of his which nello also did remixes of in this fashion). this segment isn't clever at all but it puts all the focus on the sound of silverbox, which tijardovic was a avid user of and i of course is a big fan of.
the squelching acid sound for this one is used both as a bassline and second instance where it goes into more higher frequencies. it's very much a big drive and go to all of it but that has to do with the rest of the track with driving 16th note hihats, snarerolls and all that jazz. the bassline also that 16th note machinegun type punch that is more known in goa or psytrance, which of course nello produced on the side.
i've used this track and a few of the other acidy nello remixes in many trancy sets but i always tend to mix out before the end section. with quick mixing and track selection it works like a charm every time.
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