Só  flashback - part 2

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Rebekah Ryan – You Lift Me Up (Hi-Lux Remix) MCA Records 1996.

Having signed Ultra High to MCA, it was natural that they’d want Hi-Lux to remix their other releases, ‘You Lift Me Up’ was another in a series of Piano Pop/Dance tunes that where rife for the Hi-Lux Hi-Energy treatment.

I remember sitting in the office of MCA legendary head of A&R Steve Wolfe when he’d invited me in to specifically sit and listen to the original of this track with him, it didn’t take long to realise there was a very serious vocal involved and I knew exactly what to do with the track with a Remix. This was to be the first of a classic Hi-Lux trademark remix of putting the whole vocal verses in the breakdown to give them maximum space and then let the club have it with a killer riff.

The Hi-Lux remix was an absolute killer of a club track, but I’d realised that it had a huge crossover opportunity and pleaded with Steve Wolfe to have a radio edit done and make that the main release for radio rather than the original mix. The track did hit the top 40 charts with a very respectful position of #26 if I remember correctly, to this day I’m convinced that that chart position can predominantly be attributed to the Hi-Lux club mix rather than the original mix or radio edit…… but MCA had invested a lot in the original and ultimately, who was I to try and influence the track or what Rebekah had wanted.

You Lift Me Up has to be one of my favourite Hi-Lux remixes to have worked on …. Such fond memories of getting the DAT tape of these awesome vocals back to the studio and getting stuck in to taking the track away from a pop daytime radio fantastic pop song into the club belter that it was. Such a fantastic vocalist who never got the break she deserved.

Hi-Lux Productions & Remixes 1994 - 1996

1. Hi-Lux – Feel It (Original Full On Mix) Cheeky Records 1995
2. Red Eye – Kut It (Hi-lux Remix) Champion Records 1994
3. KMC Feat. Dhany – Somebody To Touch Me (Hi-Lux Remix) Champion Records 1995
4. Henry – Stand Up For Love (Hi-Lux Remix) Ore Records 1995
5. Hi-Lux – Never Felt This Way (Horny Mix) Champion Records 1995
6.  Ultra High – Stay With Me (MCA Records 1995 a Hi-Lux Production)
7. 28th Street Crew – O (Hi-Lux Remix) Ministry Of Sound 1995
8. Rebekah Ryan – You Lift Me Up (Hi-Lux Remix) MCA Records 1996
9. Rebekah Ryan – Just A Little Bit Of Love (Hi-Lux Remix) MCA Records 1996
10. Ultra High – Are You Ready For Love – Hi-Lux Stormy Weather Mix (MCA Records 1996)
11. Siona – Do You Wanna Funk (Hi-Lux Stormy Weather mix) BMG Records
12. Sexus – The Official End of It All (Hi-Lux Remix) ZTT records

Rebekah Ryan – You Lift Me Up (Hi-Lux Remix) MCA Records 1996

All time classic :) fav tune from then and now

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Party People (DJ Trix White Lable mix)

Produced this Bootleg with Hugh back in the day with Tom's full approval & involvement... Used to drop this 'In the Mix' and it absolutely KILLED IT!!
Still Stands up today!
Great to know it's still played out to a new generation!
The number on the label still works!

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