u96 - life in paradise

i've mentioned before that i love eurodance and this one is a track i discovered a little while after when i was started playing eurodance-sets. i came to terms that you could play in the faster megamix stylings that i favoured and still build and release. this is like most dance music, if one wants to do an interesting mix then the solution isn't just to play anthems.

which is why you'll never catch me playing something like culture beat's "mr vain" until the end of the set. but you have to get from point a to point b and sometimes you want something subtle but still packing that eurodance-flavour. this is where something like track comes in to play.

to be really honest, it's not my favourite alex christensen production and again i say that in a state that i do have a favourite track done by him. that would be "love religion" but this is something completely different and it comes an album where the big hit was "heaven". a track which a deliberate rejack of cindy lauper's "time after time".

this track is infact album filler and it starts off with the exact same pad christensen used for most of this album (have a listen on the rest of the tracks in the junoplayer), later it introduces some melody that is going to be present for most of the track and then it kills it off to bring out the bass and drums. it's a very subtle production and i know i've reused this statement before but coming from alex christensen, the level of subtle in this is a feat.

it further on treads lyrical grounds of the road world peace in a sort of bleak manner, as done in the "conscious nineties". i can easily use this to sidetrack further more but i still find it piss funny that one of the least serious form of dance music spent so much time of peace, love, unity and consciousness. vocalist nikki and/or dea-li deliver this quite well though and it's one of the reasons i like this track.

buy here (junodownload)

to clarify something as well, whenever i say alex christensen production, i do of course everyone but christensen as he had a whole team of co-producers and henchmen on production. i also find it funny that this track one the album is preceded by something ("heartline/lifeline") that is an clowny re-take of union jack's cactus (buy here).

it's sub-ceded by a really awful outro track that sounds like the intro of a really bad happycore track. i don't want to spoil the fun but they bring in the sounds of das boot at the end, in a way that shouldn't make sense and doesn't either.