The Twelve Inch 197 : The Living Daylights : Dance-pop/Dance-rock/House - 1987
TheTwelveInch - Pe Dupré
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A-ha’s twelve-inch mix of The Living Daylights has a peculiar intro, no real break, and a sudden cut-off in what should have been the breakdown—complete with a tempo shift. In other words: DJ nightmares. I did manage to make it work here by pairing it with another equally fraught 1987 release: Dalbello’s Tango. That twelve-inch is also… let’s say… not professionally remixed.
The rest of this week’s “soundtrack” is split into two halves. The first focuses on pop and rock in their extended twelve-inch form—very much the norm in the latter half of the eighties. Expect excellent examples from Phil Collins, Little Steven, Foreigner’s Lou Gramm, and Midnight Oil.
The second half tilts toward the early house influences that began creeping in circa 1987–88. You’ll hear Information Society, The Jets, and Was (Not Was), before closing with Shep Pettibone’s stellar remix of New Order’s True Faith.
