Deepest Blue – Deepest Blue

I this dropping in ‘03. It was such a massive sound. Goosebumps to this day.

Lovely song, still in the search of the cassette version.

The original is the best version still by far, timeless simple good time sing along house. The Paradise & Moriarty Remix is great, but might as well be a different track in its own right, it has a few small snatches of the vocal, but bears no other resemblance to the original track in any other way. The underwolves use the vocals well over a great funky breakbeaty musical bed.

The big disappointments are:

Certainly Electric Boutique after their storming Kristine Blonde remix, turn in a version that lacks any killer synth hooks/riffs, the melody just doesn't work at all with the vocals.

And Lee Cabrera who turn out a percussiontastic but otherwise basic ruff synth bassline track that is very plain and might as well be another track if it were not for the vocals slapped on top.

If they hadnt put that fairly pointless Hopkins remix on here, the other two mixes would not have been edited down (and yes the xtra minute or two does make a difference!). At least they can be had full length digitally now though.

This one is a typical Matt Schwarz housey but with a trancy influence production, it had a catchy vocal and a great hook. With it being released on Ministry of Sound, it would solidify at least a minor commercial success and it went beyond that. For the remixes, there was a couple of interesting ones by Lee-Cabrera, The Underwolves and Paradise + Moriarty (the two latter ones are more available on the stateside Ultra release).

For the versions on this release Electrique Boutique do a trancy refix and Jon Hopkins goes for a chillout rendition. Lee-Cabrera reuses the same idea for their remix of Dutch's My Time and changes the mood from a constant sun-shower into a darker excursion. The vocal is used quite sparsely and the tribal groove and deep bassline are heavy.