In its original form, Mad Monks on Zinc sounds like “head music”. It’s slightly proggy, heavy on new age elements and built around a chilly, staccato, Germanic piano figure. It could have come out either in 1971 or 1981. Back in 1992, I wasn’t moving in the sort of circles which meant that Mad Monks on Zinc would have come into my consciousness, but it clearly made enough of an impact that Holy Ghost Inc. were able to commission a set of remixes. Most of them make regular use of the central piano riff, but this mix saves the piano for the last 30 seconds. Up to then, it moves the track from the head to the dancefloor with thrilling intensity.
For all my talk in the past about dance music having an almost religious hold over its acolytes, this mix literally opens with 30+ seconds of the call to prayer. Then at the 34 second mark, the beat drops and the resulting explosion of energy feels genuinely close to ecstasy. Aaaamen…
Video courtesy of Arseni.
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