i discovered this version when i bought the cdsingle two years ago and i think under different circumstances or hearing it before that, i'd dismiss it completely. mainly it's about chicken lips taking the song down a route that doesn't fully coincide with what the original was doing. super furry animals also did a remix that changed the completely but they kept the mood for the first half of theirs.
chicken lips version sounds more like their big hit "he not in" than "hayling" but with a heavier slant. it strengthens the influences of lipps inc.'s "funkytown" and it goes in that electric boogie meets italodisco sound. they do however keep the chordprogression of the original but keep the first bars going a little bit more before going into the chord changes
hence with some of the changes for the melodic side, the vocal is refitted for the song and has been pitched down a semitone or two. but it does it's way because the driving bassline is keeping the song going for the most of the track.
this remix may not be "healing" as fc/kahuna imagined (that goes with ils and later on max cooper who kept the original vision) but it's a damn good piece of music and i'll keep support it.
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