Remixes are like buses aren’t they? (“No!” – the world) You wait for one to come along, then a bunch arrive at once. Of course I don’t do public transport very often, so I’m basing that on a “popular” saying in England. Anyway, not long have I got over the brilliance and semi-okness of James Blunt and Westlife respectively being swizzled around like WonderWoman, but gaw blimey guvnor, Kylie and BWO remixes land on my desk. Let me tell you these two songs (2 Hearts and Destiny of Love) are currently in a very heated battle for my number one slot this week (well not MY number one slot, that belongs to Dazzle), which would be very exciting if that were important to anyone but me J Lets deal with Ms Minogue first. As legend would have it, no one apparently liked her first single when it came out, but then it started to grow on everyone. Well I worshipped from the start and the remixes take it down a number of routes – dance, disco, trance and most notably a great Kish Mauve remix which echoes the original but gives it a nice beefed up sound with plenty of emphasis on the WOOOO! BWO have an epic nine version of Destiny of Love on the cd single and nearly all of them are jolly brilliant. The song is gorgeously morose yet hopeful in it’s original format, but the remixes bring out a number of elements in it that transform it into a gosh darn tooting dancefloor classic that will have you spinning around and getting into the groove before you know it. Abba were the absolute masters at making sad yet sometimes optimistic lyrics dance off a turntable, and these mixes show that BWO are able to doff their caps in a worthy tribute…
