Robbie Williams - Lovelight (Soulwax Remixes)

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  • These days memory is subject to accelerated information blasts. In 2006, last week looks like last year, and no new releases or no MySpace activity equals clinical death for an artist. If that’s the standard, Soulwax have been in a coma for a long while now. But with the release of this remix pack, as well as the Soulwax Nite Version of The Gossip’s 'Standing in The Way Of Control' (a remix out on a small, anonymous label that’s sure to take leftfield indie to Ibiza for the first time), Soulwax are now offically 'back'. But the truth, however, is that they were never gone – they’ve been out on their Radio Soulwax tour playing their Nite Versions set all this while. We all know how much David and Stephen Dewaele love pop. They're the culprits who, under their 2manyDJ's handle, mashed together Justin Timberlake and James Murphy before anyone thought such a thing possible. Take this love for pop, take a British pop icon with a hidden sympathy for electro in the form of Robbie Williams, take Soulwax and mix them together, and what you get is one of the biggest club tunes we've heard this year. Forget about the vocal version (obviously made to satisfy label owners), the Soulwax Ravelight Dub is the one for you. Two minutes in, everything fades out and all you get is one bleep and then those Soulwax handclaps, the ones they used in almost every Nite Version they made. One bleep, one simple bleep which drives the entire song to rave heaven. Okay, should I say the n-word? All right. Nu–rave heaven. It’s guaranteed to cause dancefloor mayhem, as long as you’ve got a passion for early nineties rave euphoria, which I’m sure we all do.
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