ReStructure Mix Update (1/19/21) “The Music Take-U-Away” - Glenn Rivera ReStructure Mix – Panthera

Panthera is Ferre Baelen and Thierry Thielemans. This acid-house club track titled “The Music Takes-U-Away” was released in 1989 at the peak of house and techno music and dance floors were heavily relying on beats and bass to stomp out a rhythm. The Technotronic take over the same year made a mild rap a big part of house productions using the hip-hop chant to bring a new break for the ingredient. The pop world had taken hold of this new genre and moved it into a standard. “The Music Takes-U-Away” is one of the singles that worked a peak dance floor into frenzy during this period for me. The pumping beats are the outline of what the dance floors were craving. This production is more of the house touch and some acid pieces to bring it to the “new dimension” that our rap entails. Many of the parts that join the song are nice riffs that make this style what it was as it made itself home.

I have taken the 12” version and beats from “The Music Takes-U-Away” and reworked a new arrangement for this ReStructure Mix. The single versions are extended here with more elbow room for the rhythm to make itself a center stage.