Recently I was reading the liner notes for Nite Versions, the Soulwax album that reinvents and reimagines their earlier albums, Any Minute Now in particular. This little snippet really caught my eye:

"...conceptually our biggest influence was an album from 1982 called Love and Dancing by The League Unlimited Orchestra, which was essentially the hit album Dare by The Human League remixed by them and their producer in such a simple way that to this day still sounds more interesting than the original to us. "

I'd never heard of this Love and Dancing record and drove right in. Like most folks, I enjoy The Human League and their hit "Don't You Want Me"* but this record really does steer the record in a whole new direction.

Reading through the album Wikipedia it's remarkable to learn that producer Martin Rushent created the record largely on his own in about ten days; making thousands of manual cuts to splice everything together because this was 1982. Even if the music wasn't good, it would be a fascinating read on how he accomplished the reinvention. Fortunately, it is a worthwhile reinvention as well.

This may be very old news to some of you but it was new to me, so maybe it's new to some of you as well. Enjoy the deep dive.

* Never forget the ultimate version.