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Back when the first white labels started floating through the hands of German, British, American and Canadian DJs in late ’84, nobody was ready for what was coming. The official drop hit in early ’85 and the scene was never the same again. This was the moment Mike Mareen broke through the static. Yeah, he’d been working with Chris Evans-Ironside since the ’70s but nothing hinted that together they’d channel something this futuristic. “Dancing In The Dark” sounded like it had slipped through a wormhole: melancholic, hypnotic vocals wrapped in vocoder haze, riding an arrangement so razor-sharp it made most releases of the era feel prehistoric. It didn’t need the pop charts… It owned the clubs. And the clubs listened.

London. Berlin. Madrid. Rome. Paris. Lisbon. Amsterdam. Athens. Toronto. NYC. Tokyo. Mexico City.
One drop of that electro bassline and DJs were hooked. Crowds were hooked. The whole underground was hooked. Soon Europe’s radio charts caved under its pressure, and the track crossed borders on mixtapes, becoming a cult anthem behind the Iron Curtain. It was everywhere, even where it technically wasn’t allowed to be.

Fast-forward four decades and the spell hasn’t faded. “Dancing In The Dark” still shows up in indie dance, italo wave, house and deep house sets. Producers keep re-editing it like it’s sacred material. It’s one of those tracks that DJs treasure, a timeless weapon, one of the top three defining singles of Mareen’s entire career.

And now for the 40th anniversary of its official release, Vintage Pleasure Boutique and Night’n Day Records drop the vinyl every collector and selector has been waiting for: a special reissue loaded with four brand-new remixes spanning the full spectrum of today’s underground indie/disco/italo/house energy.

Tallac - the American Berlin dweller - dives deep into the hypnotic soul of the original, pulling out its buried deep-house DNA and carving out a spacious, emotional roller.
Luksek, Italian producer & DJ, goes raw and dirty: loop-driven, gritty, underground, hypnotic, the kind of edit that eats dancefloors alive.

Flemming Dalum, the Danish Italo grandmaster, finally gets to remix the track he’d always dreamed of touching and of course it’s pure Flemingish electro-italo magic.
And the Polish sparkle: A.P. Mono delivers a shimmering mix of italo disco, glitterbox groove, disco glamour and synthwave glow, all while keeping the spirit of Mareen’s original heartbeat intact.
 
The wax also features two historical heavy-hitters: the 1985 Jens Lissat’s team remix and Luis Rodriguez’s original arrangement, essential cuts in the Mareen universe.

Mike Mareen - Dancing In The Dark (Tallac Remix)

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Sim's & Sam.L & Samir Percu Live - Doors of spirit (Original)

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Free DL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxobiK7SSSWRNkdPeGNiOF9jNHM/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-HUlfvINFzJXQnqaExfOubg (Remastered)
Instrumental Ver: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxobiK7SSSWRcEk5LWJ6VU9aV3c/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-On7Bs4ChHI2IOvqdgLAIzw (Remastered)
MP3 Archive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxobiK7SSSWRcEk5LWJ6VU9aV3c/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-On7Bs4ChHI2IOvqdgLAIzw

YouTube: https://youtu.be/jxa5Spy7SAE

As featured on THE ʕ ͡ ͡° ᴥ ͡ ͡° ʔ ALBUM:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxobiK7SSSWRZ3NFSDA5ZzI4OHc?resourcekey=0-nJkpmB7DQJ0TXSJgnyEqiA&usp=sharing

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-- Undertale - Oh! One True Love (Composer: Toby Fox)
-- Aaliyah feat. Timbaland - Try Again

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