Equus: Paul Mix - New Millenium [Tranceatlantic Mix] (27 March 1993)

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OK, I’ll get the obvious joke out of the way first. So, just how many tunes out there are subtitled as the Paul Mix mix?

When he played this, John Peel referred to the look of the 12-inch as Blue vinyl, flecked with grey. Rather lovely. I think that sums this particular mix of New Millenium up quite well, actually. The Tranceatlantic Mix was put together by Damon Wild and Tommy Musto, who attempt to give a tribal slant to Paul Mix’s slightly intergalactic sounding original version. The keyboards on the original sound like frantic distress signals sent from a stricken space station, but Wild and Musto pull the track back down from the stratosphere and plant it in a rainforest, augmented with African drums, breathy chants and “pop” sounds like woodpeckers beating out messages to each other in response to Mix’s keyboard figure from the stars which bursts in at the 2:16 mark. They reappear over the final minute too giving the feel of Earth and the Solar System trying to talk to each other.

The original version of New Millenium.

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