REISSUE: “Spys” - Glenn Rivera ReStructure Mix – Roni Griffith

REISSUE: “Spys” - Glenn Rivera ReStructure Mix – Roni Griffith Roni Griffith is a performer who began a musical career with August Darnell’s ensemble, Kid Creole and The Coconuts. Her solo career began with a dance floor hit – a cover of the 1967 song by The Symbols – “(The Best Part Of) Breaking Up”. Roni along with producer Bobby Orlando transformed the original heavy downbeat psychedelic track into a disco hit. The song helped during its release in 1982 to rejuvenate dance floors once again for a full disco sound with a heavy percussion drive that Orlando is well known for. “Spys” is a single from the self-titled album from Roni from the same year and displays once again the Bobby Orlando method with a rolling synthesizer pattern and Roni emphasizing an addition to a romance. In Orlando’s original mix there are samples that inflict a bit of the New Beat realm that was soon to come and may have given the initial influence. The song is a bit haunting and always reminded me of a deep afterhours feel. I have taken the album version of “Spys” and transformed the hardcore piece into a darker mix in this ReStructure interlude. Adding a few percussion sprinkles to give it more of a rhythmic edge. It delves a bit more in the tangled web of the original and plays out to those hardcore dance floor periods.