another case of a single found in the bargain bins and again picked up because i recognized a few names on it and knew of sybil. more as the vocalist on blaze's "when i fall in love" and a few other tracks but i found out that a prior career singing r&b was the case as well. the second name i recognized was jewels & stone who for this single do the big ten minute club mix. they also produced a nice remix of sophie ellis-bextor's "murder on the dancefloor" that i liked a lot.
the song comes in a few other mixes and they were mostly in-house productions and that was the normal modus operandi for stock, aitken & waterman/pwl international productions. but the nerd in me has point out that aitken didn't have anything to do with "when i'm good and ready". the other versions from the single came from pwl-associates dave ford and safe hands. ford did the vocal club mixes with the verses included and safe hands did the mixes that only kept the hooks.
my favourite version on the single comes from safe hands and it's their classic dub that is mix that i think were trying to appeal the "underground" dj's. the core foundation of the song was kept but the focus was shifted towards the groove and the vocal melody. it goes through a few different instrumentations and my heart leaps with joy as the vibraphone is audible. gathered together with the deep bassline, that plays according to the leadline, it's a very good interpretation of that new york-ish sounding garage that the brits were trying to do from time to time.
it is a shame though that just the title was used in terms of the vocal but i think with some modern tools that is easily solvable considering an acapella is available.
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