Alex Gold - LA Today

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  • Xtravaganza struck gold, so to speak, with Chicane's Bryan Adams collaboration, and now we get the Human League's Phil Oakey teaming up with their finest, DJ Alex Gold. It's a winner - Oakey deadpans his way through a couple of verses that are straight out of the League songbook, and lead to a suitably euphoric, chart-bothering chorus, with Gold's production spot on. Even the backing vocals are in the best Human League tradition. The mood is house, but with trancey overtones, so this could be big at a commercial club in your area. The Greed mix isn't quite so effective but is perfectly passable as a dub. Head straight for the original, as the vocal goes 'LA Today, it's a dream away'.
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