Alan
Jones is an Italo-disco singer and producer who covers Billy Idol’s
“Eyes Without A Face” in 1990. During the late 80s Italo-disco was also
growing in many directions and one was taking pop and rock songs and
conforming them into a street beat synth arrangement with the swing
samples of the dance period. This cover always caught my attention since
the original has a haunting early morning quality and the Italo mix
here captures it in a new way with the percolating synthesizers upfront
and heavy beats. The vocal works well with the new arrangement and gives
this dance cover more likeness.
I
have taken the import 12” vocal, instrumental and dub versions to work a
new ReStructure Mix which plays out more like an early morning mix
supplement. It is geared more as a dub with extracts from the original
to create an eerie and funky edge. One of the genres of dance music
closest to my heart, this ReStructure is a salute to the 80s pop-rock
dance era and the underground club sound which reverberates at 3 am.
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