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And that busy drum loop at a much higher BPM than anything else in the song was flat out wrong. it sounded like the mix was fighting itself.
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While the droning hum of perhaps a bomber engine assumed the front and center spotlight. The mix was superficially closest to the original, at least at first, but with a really obnoxious, super busy drum loop loosed in the mix making it fight the original rhythm box for supremacy. Hot Chip have been one of “those bands” who I’ve heard their name bandied about for 10-15 years without actually hearing. The bomb blast drums and the drum machine toms made a re-appearance in the middle eight here, for the only call back to the original mix. The melody was constructed here as a methodical rondo which was pretty catchy. It might even be a new vocal by Andy given the treatment. The slow, stately pace was very OMD, but the vocal was vocoded throughout. The “Slow Mix” was as its name implied, a radical Post-Modern Remix of the song by the band as someone else would do it today basically re-constructing the song with a different arrangement, tempo, and even lead vocal.
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Overall the mix and EQ didn’t vary drastically, which meant that this “Enola Gay” still had the DNA of what we all know and love. And McCluskey’s vocals were doubled with chorus on the coda for a different feel. I did like the winsome synth leads at the end of the middle eight, though. The middle eight itself was less convincing than the original was with the chilling bomb blast drums of the original dissipated into less monolithic force. And the sound fo the song putting on the brakes like that to stop cold was jarring. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it was something that came much later in dance music. First of all, The Drop was not an established part of the remix vernacular at that time. The only part where it rankled me is in the drop before the middle eight. If they cheated then they did a great job of it. All of the elements here were from the master tape and there aren’t any modern elements that stick out like a sore thumb. It sounds exactly like what we were all expecting in 1980 when we bought the 12″ single but didn’t get.
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The band’s Extended Version began with the distinctive drum machine toms and the bass synth isolated for a classic 12″ buildup lasting almost a full minute as one by one, the rest of the song’s elements join in on the crescendo. OMD: Enola Gay 2020 Remixes – UK 12″ + DL